Day 8 - Hedy Lamarr

We celebrate International Women's Day with the brilliant and beautiful Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian woman who had a very eventful life and was certainly more than met the eye. Hedy was born in 1914 in Austria. She began acting in Berlin then was cast in the film, Ecstasy, which was considered too risqué for Americans to see. She was married arms dealer Friedrich Mandl, who became so jealous at her acting that he moved to his castle and kept her a virtual prisoner there. She did accompany to some business meetings and learned much. She was a natural inventor and these meetings taught her much in field of applied science. She finally had enough and ran away to Parish. There, Louis B Mayer discovered her, brought her to the US and the rest, as they say, is history.

Except she still invented things…she and partner, George Antheil, invented spread spectrum technology for the US to use to keep radio controlled torpedoes from being jammed. While the US military did not use her design, it became the basis for Bluetooth and Wifi technology. Earlier she had streamlined Howard Hugh’s racing planes to make them faster.

You can read about her ( “here:” )

Here are a couple of books:
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as aWoman
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Hedy:



Some of her noted films:
Ecstasy (1933)
Algiers (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)