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Orgasms, Nazis and Inventing WiFi: Hedy Lamarr's Life Story Is Grander Than Any Hollywood Movie
Moviepilot ^ | 13 Nov 15 | Mark NewtonStaff

Posted on 11/13/2015 10:42:10 AM PST by SkyPilot

If you were on Google earlier this week -- and let's face it, you were -- you may have spotted a Google Doodle which celebrates the life of one of Hollywood's most iconic actresses.

Hedy Lamarr, an actress of the golden age of cinema, would have been 101 years old this week, although simply calling her an actress might be something of a misnomer. As well as appearing in films, Lamarr also applied her incredible intellect to a series of scientific and technological endeavors, which eventually earned her a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and practically every household in America.

Even as an actress, Lamarr broke ground and took cinema in new, and sometimes controversial, directions. While working in Germany in the early 1930s, Lamarr (then named Hedy Kiesler) appeared in the Czech/German film, Ecstasy, which caused quite a stir at the time.

Although often inaccurately referred to as the first film to feature nudity, Ecstasy did probably feature the first cinematic scene of sexual intercourse and the first portrayal of female orgasm -- the latter of which confused many of the more naive and incredulous husbands in the world at the time. The film caused her career in Europe to skyrocket, with influential director Max Reinhardt naming her the "most beautiful woman in Europe," a view shared by many.

The film was particularly seized upon by censorship and religious groups in America. The Catholic Legion of Decency condemned it as morally objectionable, while Joseph Breen of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America claimed it was "highly — even dangerously — indecent." Due to this, Ecstasy was only released in America in 1940, and then only on a limited basis. Which version you could see, largely depended...

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TOPICS: History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: actress; biography; frequencyhopping; hedylamarr; magyar; spreadspectrum; wwii
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To: Autonomous User

I was a kid when Blazing Saddles came out. I didn’t get the joke because I’d never heard of Hedy Lamarr.


21 posted on 11/13/2015 10:55:45 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Bulwyf

She was a Jew, but raised and a practising Catholic. She had to hide being Jewish of course! It was one of the reason she had to escape Europe (that and she had a controlling maniac for a first husband). She lived the last part of her life in seculsion, but I hope she did have a relationship with Christ. I would love to meet her in heaven.


22 posted on 11/13/2015 10:56:08 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BigEdLB
had a stratospheric IQ

Before she was 10, she could speak 4 languages (German, Hungarian, Italian, and English). She played the piano and wrote poetry. She preferred reading philosophy and science textbooks instead of novels.

Other interesting trivia here:

http://hedy-lamarr.org/about-hedy/trivia/

23 posted on 11/13/2015 11:04:34 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

She even smokes at the end of it.

https://youtu.be/3R_sVeezhpY


24 posted on 11/13/2015 11:05:32 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Bulwyf

Her relationship to Jesus is her business.

She was a beauty who wanted to kill nazis. That’s good enough for me.


25 posted on 11/13/2015 11:10:35 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: SkyPilot
She was ultra-yummy in Boom Town.
26 posted on 11/13/2015 11:12:07 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Larry Lucido
True.

Here is the other famous clip. She goes swimming, and her horse runs off with her clothes.

https://vimeo.com/74332349

27 posted on 11/13/2015 11:12:12 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I think I read somewhere that she said the director stuck a pin in her behind to make the orgasm shot in the Ecstasy film.


28 posted on 11/13/2015 11:14:04 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: pgyanke
LOL! You're terrible! <rimshot>
29 posted on 11/13/2015 11:19:40 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Bulwyf
Well, she and a co-inventor filed a patent for it. The War Department had the patent classified, but it wasn't actually used for anything until the patent expired.

The implementation technology lagged far behind the idea.

30 posted on 11/13/2015 11:20:50 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: SkyPilot

Oh My. She was what... 15 or 17 years old there. Perky little thing!


31 posted on 11/13/2015 11:22:23 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Hedy’s Folly is a terrific book about her scientific accomplishments.


32 posted on 11/13/2015 11:24:13 AM PST by ntnychik
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To: SkyPilot
I suspect she was easily bored: she ran through money and husbands like water.

I think she claimed in her autobiography that she earned somewhere between $20 - $25 million by the early '60's, and blew every last penny.

She was arrested for shoplifting a few times when she was broke.

33 posted on 11/13/2015 11:26:50 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Larry Lucido
But did she eat Pastrami during "it." [Or was that The Risotto?]


34 posted on 11/13/2015 11:33:38 AM PST by FredZarguna (Eat pork: Annoy the UN.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I read when I was a teenager . Excellent book .


35 posted on 11/13/2015 11:35:54 AM PST by katykelly
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To: SkyPilot

Wow! Talk about brains and beauty!!!


36 posted on 11/13/2015 11:35:56 AM PST by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: piytar

Also was Jewish and helped save her mother from the holocaust.


37 posted on 11/13/2015 11:40:59 AM PST by appeal2 (Don't steal, the government hates competition.)
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To: SkyPilot

Probably married 6 times because a strikingly pretty woman whose brain was 10 times as fast as any of her husbands may have trouble communicating...Attracted to her looks, but once she started to converse, she intimidated them.


38 posted on 11/13/2015 11:43:37 AM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: SkyPilot

Bookmark


39 posted on 11/13/2015 11:45:46 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SkyPilot
..."the latter of which confused many of the more naive and incredulous husbands in the world at the time. "

Huh!?

40 posted on 11/13/2015 11:50:46 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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