Famous for her topless scene beside Robert Mitchum at Cannes Film
Festival in 1954, a very photographed and commented self-promotion.
British painter Arnold Henry Mason (1885-1963) made a beautiful portrait (oil on canvas) of her titled "Young woman with a fan, the late Simone Silva".
A pioneer of topless exposure on the Riviera.
Posed for Playboy simulating the famous Salome's dance of the seven veils.
During the 50's, lived in a glamorous flat on Adam and Eve Mews, Kensington, London.
Died in her flat, on Brook Street, in the central London district of Mayfair.