Hedy played similar characters in both movies, a sweet unglamorous young woman who is able to defend herself with powerful slaps should the need arise.
The dancer, dazzling behind the footlights, may in ordinary living be so dull, so unkind, so fractious, that her smooth limbs and lovely face are lost in the immediacy of her spiritual unloveliness.
One of my favorites is radio broadcaster Oswald Hoffmann, who said, " Grace is the love that loves the unlovely and the unlovable." And I just love that picture of grace.