00:32Every girl would like to marry a rich husband, but do you first think of money and then
00:36love or vice versa?
00:38Hedy Lamarr.
00:39Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only
00:45child of Gertrude Kiesler and Emil Kiesler.
00:49Her father was born to a Jewish family in Lindbergh, now Lviv in Ukraine, and was a successful
00:54bank director.
00:55Her mother, a pianist and Budapest native, had come from an upper-class Jewish family.
01:01She had converted to Catholicism and was described as a practicing Christian who raised her daughter
01:06as a Christian.
01:08Lamarr helped get her mother out of Austria after it had been absorbed by the Third Reich,
01:12and to the United States, where Gertrude later became an American citizen.
01:17She put Hebrew as her race on her petition for naturalization, which was a term often
01:22used in Europe.
01:23As a child, Lamarr showed an interest in acting and was fascinated by theater and film.
01:28At the age of twelve, she won a beauty contest in Vienna.
01:32Discovered by an Austrian film director as a teenager, she gained international notice
01:36in 1933 with her role in the sexually charged Czech film Ecstasy.
01:42After her unhappy marriage ended with Fritz Mandl, a wealthy Austrian munitions manufacturer
01:47who sold arms to the Nazis, she fled to the United States and signed a contract with the
01:52Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Hollywood under the name Hedy Lamarr.
01:57Upon the release of her first American film, Algiers, co-starring Charles Boyer, Lamarr became
02:03an immediate box office sensation.
02:05Lamarr made a number of well-received films, notable among them were Lady of the Tropics,
02:10co-starring Robert Taylor, Boomtown, with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Tortilla Flat,
02:16co-starring Tracy, and Samson and Delilah, opposite Victor Matur.
02:20She was reportedly producer Hal Wallace's first choice for the heroine in his classic 1943 film,
02:26Casablanca, a part that eventually went to Ingrid Bergman.
02:30Lamarr's film career began to decline in the 1950s.
02:34Her last film was 1958's The Female Animal with Jane Powell.
02:38In 1966, she published a steamy best-selling autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, but later sued the publisher
02:46for what she saw as errors and distortions perpetrated by the book's ghostwriter.
02:51In 1942, during the heyday of her career, Lamarr earned recognition in a field quite different
02:57from entertainment.
02:58She and her friend, the composer George Antheo, received a patent for an idea of a radio-signaling
03:03device, or secret communications system, which was a means of changing radio frequencies
03:09to keep enemies from decoding messages.
03:12Originally designed to defeat the German Nazis, the system became an important step in the development
03:17of technology to maintain the security of both military communications and cellular phones.
03:23Lamarr wasn't instantly recognized for her communications invention, since its wide-ranging impact wasn't
03:29understood until decades later.
03:31However, in 1997, Lamarr and Antheo were honored with the Electronic Frontier Foundation
03:38Pioneer Award.
03:40And that same year, Lamarr became the first female to receive the Bulby Nass Spirit of Achievement Award,
03:45considered the Oscars of inventing.
03:48Lamarr was married six times.
03:50She adopted a son James in 1939 during her second marriage to Jean Markey.
03:54She went on to have two biological children, Denise, born 1945, and Anthony, born 1947,
04:01with her third husband, actor John Loder, who also adopted James.
04:05In 1953, Lamarr completed the naturalization process and became a U.S. citizen.
04:11In her later years, Lamarr lived a reclusive life in Castleberry, a community just north of Orlando, Florida,
04:18where she died on January 19, 2000, at the age of 86.
04:23In 2017, director Alexandra Dean shined a light on the Hollywood starlet, unlikely inventor,
04:30with the new documentary, Bombshell, the Hedy Lamarr story.
04:34Along with delving into her pioneering technological work,
04:37the doc explores other examples in which Lamarr proved to be far more than just a pretty face,
04:43as well as her struggles with the crippling drug addiction.
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