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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Huh!?
The author is just using the typical feminist propaganda that portrays all men as being either unaware of or unconcerned with their wives' sexual needs before the Great Sexual Revolution.
Okay, thanks. Makes sense.
*whew*
Clark didn't seem to mind either.
That lady had it all.
True. She wrote: "I figured out that I had made and spent some thirty million dollars. Yet earlier that day I had been unable to pay for a sandwich at Schwab's drug store."
Yeah but that still pic doesn’t nearly do her justice.
It was in motion that her intelligence was visible. She absolutely scintillated.
bkmk
It would be tough to make a movie about her, because I don’t think they could come up with an actress with Hedy’s unique blend of beauty and intelligence.
The only actress I can really think of for the role would be Jennifer Connelly.
She makes it look so easy.....
I under stand that she asked that her ashes be scattered in the Wienerwald. I hope that they nourished some berries and flowering shrubs and then some flowering tree.
“Do not let any woman read this verse;
It is for men, and after them their sons
And their sons’ sons.”
An Austro-Hungarian Jew speaking 4 languages isn’t unique. Most would know German and at least 2 other European languages common within the empire, and then if they were religious they would know some Hebrew, and likely some Yiddish. Frankly, I’m surprised she didn’t know any Slavic languages.
Fun point about Mandl, as far as Nazis were concerned, he was a Jew or at best a mischling. He had 4 or 5 Jewish grandparents.
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