Posted on 11/26/2017 6:29:47 PM PST by ETL
‘Bombshell’ tells the story of Lamarr’s double life as a Hollywood starlet and inventor
Once billed as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” actress Hedy Lamarr is often remembered for Golden Age Hollywood hits like Samson and Delilah. But Lamarr was gifted with more than just a face for film; she had a mind for science.
A new documentary, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, spotlights Lamarr’s lesser-known legacy as an inventor.
The film explores how the pretty veneer that Lamarr shrewdly used to advance her acting career ultimately trapped her in a life she found emotionally isolating and intellectually unfulfilling.
Lamarr, born in Vienna in 1914, first earned notoriety for a nude scene in a 1933 Czech-Austrian film. Determined to rise above that cinematic scarlet letter, Lamarr fled her unhappy first marriage and sailed to New York in 1937. En route, she charmed film mogul Louis B. Mayer into signing her. Stateside, she became a Hollywood icon by day and an inventor by night.
Lamarr’s interest in gadgetry began in childhood, though she never pursued an engineering education.
Her most influential brainchild was a method of covert radio communication called frequency hopping, which involves sending a message over many different frequencies, jumping between channels in an order known only to the sender and receiver. So if an adversary tried to jam the signal on a certain channel, it would be intercepted for only a moment.
During World War II, Lamarr partnered with composer George Antheil to design a frequency-hopping device for steering antisubmarine torpedoes.
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What the hell is your problem?
Your work to make nothing of Hedy Lamarr’s remarkable contributions while you sell mindless juvenile crap?
Not my idea of “humor.”
So you guys are in full agreement with liberals that there has never been any effort to promote affirmative action history in the media and that all the things they’ve done like bring ‘LBGT’ inclusive history books into the classroom are AOK because its 100% true? Because the existence of the general phenomenon is all I’m arguing.
My “work to make nothing of Hedy Lamarr’s remarkable contributions”
I take back the apology. You’re a jackass.
You’re a poster who pretends to be serious while you demean FR with juvenile crap.
I agree with you when putting it that way. I spoke too hastily and apologize to you.
Regards-
Thank you. She was a remarkable woman.
Juvenile as expected.
When I was in my 20s back in the late 70s there was a beautiful young Italian girl in the neighborhood who I fell in love with who reminded me a lot of Lamarr's character in Samson and Delilah. Drop-dead gorgeous but manipulative and somewhat heartless.
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