Positive, she’s received a helluva punim, however Hedy Lamarr is greater than only a fairly face.
Whereas Lamarr grew up enamored with theatre and ultimately pursued an performing profession, her father nurtured her pure aptitude for science.
Lamarr’s first foray into shifting footage was on the age of 18 with an look in Ectasty (1933). The movie featured Lamarr in a short (however scandalous) nude scene that confirmed tight photographs of Lamarr’s face within the throws of ardour (photographs that Lamarr later alleged had been filmed with out her data).
After escaping a controlling relationship, the Austrian-born actress fled to Paris, then London, the place she met the top of MGM Studios. Lamarr arrived in Hollywood in 1938 and was marketed as ‘the world’s most stunning lady.’ It was her magnificence that landed her roles as a seductive temptress in quite a few movies, most notably Growth City (1940), with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, White Cargo (1942), wherein she appeared sporting solely a bra and sarong for many of her display screen time, and Samson and Delilah (1949).
Lamarr’s largest achievement, nevertheless, was off-screen when she co-invented a radio steering system for torpedoes that hopped frequencies to forestall Axis powers from signal-jamming.
I current this week’s Classic Vixen with magnificence and brains, Hedy Lamarr.
Lead Picture: Public Doman (MGM)
