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Hedy Lamarr: 9.11.1913 - 19.1.2000

Raven haired seductress, once billed as the world's most beautiful woman. Austrian born, she aroused U.S. attention
when she swam stark naked in the 1933 Czech film "Ecstasy".

Like many Hollywood stars she was married and divorced 6 times, she was a rare combination. She was both a movie star
and an inventor. While her invention was never used for its intended purpose of guiding torpedoes by radio signal, it has
become d1e basis for satellite communications today.
Hedy was born Eva Marie Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. At I 7 she burst onto the silver screen in the film ·'Money on the
Street." She attracted the attention of many admirers and married Fritz Mandie, Austrian weapons manufacturer, when
only 19 years old. His career exposed Hedy to the plans and conversations about these weapons. It was during one of these
meetings that she first suggested a radio controlled torpedo but djscovered the signal could be too easily jammed. When
Hitler took over Germany, Hedy left both her husband and her country for the safety of London. While there, she met
Louis B. Mayer who signed her for a contract with the Hollywood studio MOM and she changed her name to Hedy
Lamarr.
While working with composer George Anthejl she suggested her radio controlled torpedo idea. They realized that if they
were able to change the frequency randomly they could pull it off. They received a patent for their device in June of I 94 I.
IL wasn't used during the war, but after the patent expired in I 959 it was used, slightly modified, in satellite technology,
and it was used in secure military communication systems installed on U.S. ships sent to blockade Cuba in 1962, the
basis of America's Mil star defence system.

Neither she or Antheil ever received royalty payments for the commercialisation of their patent, though it is cited as the
underlying patent for frequency-changing technology
(See also Cinema Record #I 7 - August 1997)

Misjudgements: She, or her agent, rumed down Casablanca, GasJjght and Saratoga Trunk
Biography: "Ecswsy And Me: My Life As A Woman" (1966)

Famous Quote: "Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

Corel. the computer soft ware giant.
paid Hedy a big compliment when
they used her face on the cover of
both Corel Draw versions 8 and 9.

This happened in 1999.

Makes you wonder what happened
to all those other tens of thou!>ands
of Hollywood bimbo's who fol-
lowed her path over the sixty years
or ~o.

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