How French film legend Alain Delon lived up to his billing as the 'most beautiful man in the movies' after his death aged 88 By David Leafe Published: 01:40, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 01:50, 19 August 2024 e-mail View comments Often described as 'the most beautiful man in movie history', French screen icon Alain Delon was his own unabashed cheerleader, boasting to one interviewer that in his prime he was 'very, very, very handsome indeed'. Even as a baby, he was so good-looking, he once joked, that 'My mother had to put a sign on my pram: 'You can look, but you can't touch!' 'Women were all obsessed with me,' said the man who was also dubbed 'the male Brigitte Bardot' and a photograph taken in 1967 appeared to show that Mick Jagger's then girlfriend Marianne Faithfull was among the many seduced by his chiselled jawline and mesmerising blue eyes. Taken shortly before filming began on the erotic romance The Girl On A Motorcycle, the behind-the-scenes snap shows co-stars Delon and Faithfull cosying up on a sofa while Jagger sits glumly to one side.
Faithfull would later recall that Jagger was 'very jealous and possessive at that moment,' and with good reason. French screen icon Alain Delon, who has died aged 88, was often described as 'the most beautiful man in movie history' Alain with Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 iconic film, Girl on a Motorcycle Smoldering: The actor starred alongside Jane Fonda in the 1964 flick, The Love Cage French film legend Alain Delon.