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Femme Fatale: Hedy Lamarr



Hedy Lamarr     Hedy Lamarr was part of Hollywood's golden age in the 1930's and 40's and once billed as "the world's most beautiful woman." Her claim to fame come in the 1933 Czech film Ecstasy, which was fine for European audiences but too racy at the time for Hayes-coded Hollywood. She came to America soon after and appeared in the 1938 movie Algiers with Charles Boyer and the Cecil B. DeMille epic Samson and Delilah (1949). Around this time she made her famous, and often quoted, comment about good looks, "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Lamarr was defiantly glamorous, but unlike the beauties she comments about, had the brains to set apart from the pack. With her ex-husband she created a radio signaling device in the 1940 that was the core of modern-day cell phones. Her last starring role was in 1958 in the movie The Female Animal with Jane Powell. She withdrew from the limelight in the mid 1960's because of a lurid, ghost-written autobiography and lived as a recluse until her death.

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