Stephen Shearer - Beautiful - The Life of Hedy Lamarr

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The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” As a teenage actress in 1920s Austria, performing on the stage and in film in light comedies and musicals, Hedy Kiesler, with her exotic beauty, was heralded across Europe by her mentor, Max Reinhardt. However, it was her nude scene, and surprising dramatic ability, in Ecstasy that made her a star. Ecstasy’s notoriety followed her for the rest of her life. She married one of Austria’s most successful and wealthy munitions barons, giving up her career for what seemed at first a fairy-tale existence. Instead, as war clouds loomed in the mid-1930s, Hedy discovered that she was trapped in a loveless marriage to a controlling, ruthless man who befriended Mussolini, sold armaments to Hitler, yet hid his own Jewish heritage to become an “honorary Aryan.”
She fled her husband and escaped to Hollywood, where M-G-M changed her name to Hedy Lamarr and she became one of film’s most glamorous stars. She worked with such renowned directors as King Vidor, Victor Fleming, and Cecil B. DeMille, and appeared opposite such respected actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, and James Stewart. But as her career waned, her personal problems and legal wranglings cast lingering shadows over her former image. It wasn’t until decades later that the world was stunned to learn of her unexpected role as the inventor of a technology that has become an essential part of everything from military weaponry to cell phones—proof that Hedy Lamarr was far more than merely Delilah to Victor Mature’s Samson. She demonstrated a creativity and an intelligence she had always possessed.
Stephen Michael Shearer’s in-depth and meticulously researched biography, written with the cooperation of Hedy’s children, intimate friends, and colleagues, separates the truths from the rumors, the facts from the fables, about Hedy Lamarr, to reveal the life and character of one of classic Hollywood’s most beautiful and remarkable women.

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30. “Hedy Lamarr Won’t Be Charged,” The Washington Post, October 25, 1991.

31. Aleene MacMinn, “Hedy Lamarr Case Comes to a Close,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1991.

32. George Gerardo, “Hedy Lamarr’s Sad and Lonely Last Days,” November 5, 1996.

33. Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, “The Hidden Life of Hedy Lamarr.” Talk, March 3, 2001.

34. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury interview.

35. Madeleine Merrill interview.

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid.

23. Legacy

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

2. “Salute to Inventors,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1974.

3. Ibid.

4. Robert Boyd, untitled article, Orlando Sentinel, February 28, 1989.

5. Flemina Meeks, “guess they just take and forget about a person,” Forbes, May 14, 1990.

6. Mark Boslet, “Cast Against Type,” The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 1997.

7. Elizabeth Weiss, “Sultry Star Lamarr Did More Than Act, She Also Invented,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 8, 1997.

8. “Recognition at Last,” Microtimes, June 25, 1997.

9. Peter Y. Hong, The Sacramento Bee, September 7, 1997.

10. “Just Another Pretty Face,” Internet website, January 8, 2006.

11. Debbie Salamone Wickham, “Ex-Star Wants Image Blocked: Once a Hollywood Beauty, Hedy Lamarr Isn’t Keen on Being a Soft ware Queen,” Orlando Sentinel, October 30, 1998.

12. Debbie Salamone Wickham, “Actress Hedy Lamarr Fights Use of Image in Corel, McGraw-Hill Ads,” Orlando Sentinel, October 29, 1998.

13. Nicholas Booth, “Film Beauty Stars Again,” The (London) Times, December 9, 1998.

14. Cindy Adams, “Lamarr Less Heady About ’90s Beauty Icons,” New York Post, June 18, 1998.

15. “Proust Questionnaire,” Vanity Fair, April 1999.

16. Madeleine Merrill interview.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Denise Loder-DeLuca interview.

23. Merrill interview.

24. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury interview.

25. Robin Pettis, quoted in Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star .

26. Arlene Roxbury interview, May 13, 2008.

27. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury interview.

28. Merrill interview.

29. Ibid.

30. Merrill interview.

31. Doris Bloodworth, “Sundays with Hedy,” Sun Sentinel (Orlando), April 30, 2000.

32. Arlene Roxbury interview.

33. Arlene Roxbury interview.

34. Untitled article, January 19, 2000, DLDC.

35. Merrill interview.

36. Ibid.

37. Arlene and Lawrence Roxbury interview.

38. Ibid.

39. Denise Loder-DeLuca interview.

Epilogue

1. Carrie Rickey, “Hollywood Beauty and Grandmother of Cellphone Technology Hedy Lamarr Dies at 86,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 2000.

2. Mary Greene, “Hedy’s Brainwave,” London Daily Mail, February 5, 2005.

3. Michael T. Jarvis, “The Hollywood Industrial Complex: Boeing Hitches Its Star to Hedy,” Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2004.

4. Hal Boedeker, “TCM Celebrates Beauty, Genius of Hedy Lamarr,” The Pittsburgh Tribune, April 2, 2008.

5. John Fraser, Close-Up: An Actor Telling Tales (London: Oberon, 2005), 107.

6. Osborne interview.

7. Ibid.

8. Hedy Lamarr, Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman (New York: Bartholomew House, 1966), 233.

9. Denise Loder-DeLuca interview.

10. Ibid.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Abbott, Bud

Abel, Alfred

Able, Walter

Abroad with Two Yanks

Adams, Cindy

Adams, Julie

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Agnelli, Gianni

Ahlports, Brodie

Aitken, Max

Albach-Retty, Wolfgang

Albrecht, Prince of Bavaria

Algiers,

radio production of

All About Eve

Alleborn, Al

Allégret, Marc

Allen, Gracie

Allen, Irwin

All Star Revue

Allyson, June

Alvarez, Jimmy

L’amante di Paride (The Love of Three Queens)

Ameche, Don

Ames, Adrienne

Amfitheatrof, Daniele

Amirkhanian, Charles

Androit, Lucien

Androschin, Hans

Anet, Claude

Angeli, Pier

Angels over Broadway

Anger, Kenneth

Anka, Paul

Antheil, Boski Markus

Antheil, George Carl Johann

communications technology patent by

death of

Antheil, Henry

Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus)

Antonio, Franklin

Arden, Eve

Arlen, Michael

Arnaz, Desi

Arndt, Ernst

Arnold, Edward

Around the World in 80 Days

Arthur Murray Party

Assenberg, Julius

Astaire, Fred

Asther, Nils

Auerbach, Erich

Auerbach, Josef

Aumont, Jean-Pierre

Austria

Lamarr’s youth in

political climate in

Austria Kultur

Avery, Val

Avonde, Richard

Ayds weight-loss candy

Ayres, Lew

Bacall, Lauren

Bacon, James

Bacon, Lloyd

Bahr, Hermann

Bailey, Margaret J.

Baird, William S.

Baker, Ruby Lee

Balin, Mireille

Ballet Mécanique

Ball, Lucille

Bambi (Salten)

Baragrey, Robert

Bara, Theda

Bari, Lynn

Barnes, George

Barnes, Margaret Ayer

Baronova, Irina

Barrat, Robert

Barrett, William E.

Barrie, Mona

Barrymore, Diana

Bartholomew House

Basinger, Jeanine

Baskette, Kirtley

Basten, Fred E.

Bauen und Heiraten. See Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.

Baxter, Anne

Bay of Pigs

Beatty, Robert

Becca, Giuseppe

Beery, Wallace

“Believe in Me,”

Bellamy, Ralph

Beloin, Edmund

Bendix, William

Bennett, Bruce

Bennett, Constance

Bennett, Joan

Benny, Jack

Bergen, Candice

Bergman, Ingrid

Berkeley, Busby

Berle, Milton

Berlin, Germany

Berman, Pandro S.

Bernhardt, Curtis

Best Foot Forward

Binckley, Elena

The Black Cat

Black Chiff on

Blakeney, Olive

Blazing Saddles

Blood and Sand

Blue, Ben

The Blue Bird

Blue, Monte

Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau. See Sturm im Wasserglas

Blyth, Ann

Blyth, Donald Ross

The Bob Hope Show

A Bob Hope Special

Bocelli, Andrea

Boeing Corporation

Boese, Karl

Bogart, Humphrey

Boies, Lewis W., Jr.

Bois, Curt

Bonnard, Pierre

Boom Town

Borden, Ethel

Borzage, Frank

The Boston Globe

Bourdet, Édouard

Boxoffice

Box Office Digest

Boyd, Robert Colton

Boyer, Charles

Bradford, Elizabeth

Braun, Eva

Brecht, Bertolt

Breen, Joseph I.

Brennan, Barry

Brent, Evelyn

Brent, George

Breslow, Lou

Bressart, Felix

Brice, Fanny

“The Bride Came C.O.D.,”

Briggs, Donald

The Brighton Strangler

Brodine, Norbert

Brooke, Hillary

Brooke, Michael

Brooks, Cyrus

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