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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy , she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s. Among Lamarr's best known films are Algiers , Boom Town , I Take This Woman , Comrade X , Come Live With Me , H.M. Pulham, Esq. , and Samson and Delilah .At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

✵ 9. November 1914 – 19. January 2000
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Hedy Lamarr quote: “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

Hedy Lamarr

As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel

“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”

Hedy Lamarr

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

“I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was "difficult."”

Hedy Lamarr

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

“To be a star is~to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”

Hedy Lamarr

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

“When you see a very beautiful face, it’s stunning, and you yourself become stupefied. So you project your own stupidity onto the person you’re looking at.”

Hedy Lamarr

Lisa Heiserman Perkins NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?_r=0
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