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29. Berman, “Hedy ‘Mystified’ over Arrest.”

30. Peter Bart, “Hedy Lamarr, After the Fall,” The New York Times, February 6, 1966.

31. Ibid.

32. Bascombe, “Hedy Lamarr: The Men Who Made Her Suffer.”

33. Berman, “Hedy ‘Mystified’ over Arrest.” Andy Warhol quickly shot a cheap seventy-minute, grainy, black-and-white film at his New York Greenwich Village Factory Studio. It was called Hedy (or, Hedy the Shoplifter or, The 14-Year-Old Girl ), which was screened in New York on March 3, 1966. Warhol hired a Hispanic transvestite drag queen called Mario Montez to portray a demented young character called Hedy. Both John Cale and Lou Reed contributed to the music in the film.

1. “Actress Seeks Trial,” Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1966.

2. Osborne interview.

3. Rudy Villasenor, “Hedy Lamarr Jurors Told of Events Leading to Her Arrest,” Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1966.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Rudy Villasenor, “Psychiatrist Takes Stand for Hedy,” Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1966.

8. Ibid.

9. Laura Bascombe, “Hedy Lamarr: The Men Who Made Her Suffer,” Modern Screen, n.d., USC.

10. Rudy Villasenor, “She Was Broke and Sick When Arrested, Hedy Lamarr Says,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1966.

11. Len Lesser, letter to author, July 15, 2008.

12. Rudy Villasenor, “Doctors, Son Tell of Hedy’s Mental Stress,” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1966.

13. Ibid.

14. Villasenor, “She Was Broke and Sick When Arrested.”

15. “Hedy Lamarr Denies Intent to Steal Goods from Store,” The New York Times, April 26, 1966.

16. “State Demands Guilty Verdict,” The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, April 26, 1966.

17. Celia Rasmussen, “Tech Invention, Shoplifting Trial Set Hedy Lamarr Apart,” Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2002.

18. “State Demands Guilty Verdict.”

19. Ibid.

20. “Hedy Lamarr Wins Shoplift Acquittal After Coast Trial,” The New York Times, April 27, 1966.

21. Rasmussen, “Tech Invention, Shoplifting Trial Set Hedy Lamarr Apart.”

22. Osborne interview.

23. Osborne interview.

24. John Carlyle, Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and My Life in Old Hollywood (New York: Da Capo, 2006), 170.

25. “Hedy Lamarr Sues Store,” Los Angeles Times , May 13, 1966.

26. Sheilah Graham, “Beautiful Hedy Bewildered Lady,” The Hollywood Citizen-News , September 13, 1966.

27. Graham, “Beautiful Hedy Bewildered Lady.”

28. Osborne interview.

29. “Hedy Lamarr Loses Suit to Halt Book,” The New York Times, September 27, 1966.

30. “Hedy Lamarr Sues to Quash Autobiog,” Variety, September 27, 1966.

31. Howard Hertel, “Judge Refuses to Halt Hedy Lamarr Book,” Los Angeles Times, September 27, 1966.

32. Ibid.

33. Ibid.

34. “Shed More Light on Hedy Autobiog,” Variety, September 28, 1966.

35. Bob Edison, “Interview with Hedy Lamarr,” Films in Review , June–July 1974.

36. “Hedy Seeking $499,000 in Loss of Role,” The Hollywood Citizen-News, December 17, 1966.

37. The Hollywood Reporter, March 20, 1967.

38. “Hedy Lamarr Drops Assault Charges,” Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1967.

39. “Man Accused by Hedy Sues for $1 Million,” Los Angeles Times , September 26, 1967.

40. The ghostwriter Leo Guild once said, “I think I know what sells a book on a personality. Frankness…perhaps the strangest ghost-writing assignment I ever had was on ‘ Ecstasy and Me.’ Because there are still legal complications I cannot go into details. But to zero in on it, I wrote the book as a ghostwriter without the subject ever knowing I was writing it. The publisher signed me to write the book and Cy Rice did the interviewing on tape. The translated tapes were then turned over to me and copy sent daily to New York as I wrote. But it worked well, according to royalty statements from MacFadden-Bartell, the publishers.” Leo Guild, “Confessions of a Celebrity Ghost Writer,” The New York Times, November 5, 1967.

41. “Hedy on Her Firing: Goodbye, Hollywood,” New York Post, February 4, 1966.

42. Osborne interview.

43. Gaeton Fonzi, “Hedy and Who?” Philadelphia, January 1968.

44. Ibid.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Henry Sutherland, “Auction Crowded as Hedy Lamarr’s Effects Go on Sale,” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1968.

50. Advertisement, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1968.

51. Mamie Van Doren, interview by author, November 2008.

52. “Hedy Lamarr Charges Nine with Plot (Hers),” Variety, February 19, 1969.

53. Ibid.

54. Hedy Lamarr, quoted in Donatella Dubini and Fosco Dubini, Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star , Dubini Filmproduktion, 2006.

55. Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story (New York: Bantam, 1990), 147.

1. Kenneth Anger, quoted in Donatella Dubini and Fosco Dubini, Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star , Dubini Filmproduktion, 2006.

2. Ibid.

3. Patrick Agan, “Hedy Lamarr in 1973: ‘Fame Is Something You Never Really Own,’” Movie World , 1973.

5. Paul H. Jeffers, Sal Mineo: His Life, Murder, and Mystery (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000), 81.

4. Larry Colton would become a successful writer in the 1990s. His autobiographical 1993 novel The Goat Brothers, about the coming of age of fraternity brothers, was a modest literary success.

5. Peter Bond, “Lamarr’s Secret System Widely Used,” The National Post (Ontario, Canada), September 22, 2001.

6. Viola Hegyi Swisher, “Anthony Loder’s ‘Still Movies’ Run Deep,” After Dark, February 1978.

7. Blazing Saddles , commentary, 30th Anniversary DVD Edition, Warner Home Video, 2004.

8. “Hedy Lamarr Files Suit for $1 Million,” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1974.

9. “The Rostropo viches Get Freedom Award,” The New York Times, April 18, 1975.

10. Jennings Parrott, “Wed 75 Years, They Find It Catching,” Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1975.

11. James Bacon, “Hedy Lamarr’s Sad Story,” The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 15, 1980.

12. “Hedy: ‘He Gave Me My Eyes,’” New York Daily News, May 22, 1981.

13. Arlene Roxbury interview, May 13, 2008.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury, interview by author, July 11, 2008.

18. Ibid.

19. “Elegant Egghead,” People, February 7, 2000.

20. Cindy Adams, New York Post, June 19, 1987.

21. Ibid.

22. Jim MacDonald (compiled from wire reports), “Theft Reported, Hedy Lamarr Reports Jewelry Stolen,” Orlando Sentinel, September 4, 1988.

23. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury interview.

24. “To Whom It May Concern,” letter of illness verification, ARC.

25. James Lamarr Loder quoted in Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star .

26. Ibid.

27. “Hedy Lamarr’s Fans Pledge Help After Arrest,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, August 3, 1991.

28. Ibid.

29. Sharon McBreen, “Hedy Lamarr Unwillingly in the Limelight Again; Actress Tells Daughter, Friend She Merely Forgot to Pay for Items; She Is Charged with Shoplifting,” Orlando Sentinel , August 3, 1991.