Jaclyn Smith - Tributes

Tributes

• A number of style mavens and magazine polls have attested to Smith's popularity and declared her one of the most beautiful women in the world. The difficult-to-please Mr. Blackwell once named her "The World's Best Dressed Woman". In 1979, McCall's ran a poll of "Whose Face Most Women Would Like To Have"; Smith topped the list. Smith has had more #1 acting projects than any other actress in Hollywood, and she has often been called the "Queen of the miniseries".

• In 1985, McCall's named her as one of "America's 10 Best Bodies". People named Smith twice in its annual list of the "Most Beautiful People in the World". In the April 1984 issue of People, Smith was voted as one of the "Ten Great Faces of Our Time". In 1985, Ladies' Home Journal sampled 2,000 men and women in 100 different locations in the United States to determine "America's Favorite Women"; Smith came in the top of the list as the "Most Beautiful Woman in America", with actress Linda Evans coming in second. TV Guide magazine readers voted Smith as the "Most Beautiful Woman On Television" in 1991.

• Comic strip artist Sy Barry modeled the luscious Diana Palmer, wife of The Phantom, after Smith.

• The French band Air was inspired by Smith's Charlie's Angels character Kelly Garrett to record the song "Kelly Watch the Stars" for their critically acclaimed 1998 album Moon Safari, and the track was released as a single.