Posted on 06/06/2014 8:30:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
Happy 88th Birthday, Ms. Monroe.
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The fag drag queens worship Ms Monroe just like they do Barbara Streisand, Judy Garland, and Liza Minelli. Freaks...
I once knew a girl just like you are describing. She was beautiful but I have seen lots of beautiful girls. I will say that her looks may have had just a little extra look which got boys attention.
The first time I saw her, she was sitting on the steps of the girls dorm and was literally surrounded by boys. Some of them acted like they just happened to be there and some made no bones over the fact that they wanted to get to know her.
I later got to know her very well. She was a very devout Christian and when I looked in her high school annual, she was queen of everything and at a large high school.
She was actually a terribly conflicted person. A high school boy had gotten her involved in sex and she couldn’t seem to quit. She suffered from bi-polar depression and I think the sex was what was bothering her.
When you add in the fact that she attracted boys like bees to honey it was clear she was going to have problems until she got married.
Hedy.
But, you’ve stumped me; I remember reading something extraordinary about her, but can’t call it to mind. I think it has something to do with her brain, right? Terribly intelligent? Please share.
Lucy?
Ahhh....Hedy...something to do with wireless communications.
Heddy Lamar and she was co-inventor of some technical device.
Code breaker?!?
A lady in my church, who was a real “Rosie the riveter”, worked with her in that plant.
I find it interesting that she married playwright Arthur Miller. Didn’t last long, though.
Grace Kelley would have been my favorite for the time period. She was before my time but I remember watching her in several older movies and thinking what a classy and strikingly beautiful woman she was.
I guess Arthur Miller did not improve things by being her boyfriend ... and exploiter of her emotional problems to make her act as she did so pretty well.
She certainly was a notch above the Kadarshians.
....and El Dorado, with a nude swimming scene!
Not to take anything away from Monroe, but I always thought Loren and Newmar topped her-—AND, (no curves), but Anne Bancroft’s face was beautiful. (wish I knew how to post pics)
The Miracle Worker-—stunningly beautiful in that movie and a talented actress, too.
Heady Lamar created a guidance system for torpedoes,IIRC.
Marilyn was a fine actress,
comedian And Hot!
Niagara was Great and some like it hot,,,,
THIS is a woman-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2013_swimsuit/models/hannah-davis/13_hannah-davis_14.html
From Wikipedia:
Avant garde composer George Antheil (died 1959), a son of German immigrants and a neighbor of Lamarr in California, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mécanique, originally written for Fernand Léger’s 1924 abstract film. This score involved multiple player pianos playing simultaneously.
During World War II, Antheil and Lamarr discussed the fact that radio-controlled torpedoes, while important in the naval war, could easily be jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, causing the torpedo to go off course.[citation needed] Lamarr had learned something about torpedoes from Mandl. Antheil and Lamarr developed the idea of using frequency hopping to avoid jamming: using a piano roll to unpredictably change the signal sent between a control center and the torpedo at short bursts within a range of 88 frequencies in the radio-frequency spectrum (there are 88 black and white keys on a piano keyboard). The specific code for the sequence of frequencies would be held identically by the controlling ship and in the torpedo. It would be practically impossible for the enemy to scan and jam all 88 frequencies, as this would require too much power or complexity. The frequency-hopping sequence was controlled by a player-piano mechanism, which Antheill had earlier used to score his Ballet Mecanique.[citation needed]
On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and Hedy Kiesler Markey, Lamarr’s married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping, although novel, soon met with opposition from the U.S. Navy and was not adopted.[14] The idea was not implemented in the US until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba after the patent had expired. Her work was honored in 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr a belated award for her contributions.[3] In 1998, an Ottawa wireless technology developer, Wi-LAN Inc., acquired a 49% claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock.[15]
Lamarr’s and Antheil’s frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as Bluetooth, COFDM (used in Wi-Fi network connections), and CDMA (used in some cordless and wireless telephones).[16] Blackwell, Martin, and Vernam’s 1920 patent[17] seems to lay the communications groundwork for Kiesler and Antheil’s patent, which employed the techniques in the autonomous control of torpedoes.
Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but was reportedly told by NIC member Charles F. Kettering and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds.[18][19]
Lamarr and Antheil were inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2014
“Always loved her. Always will.”
So did Joe to his dying day.
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