31-03-2020, 02:05 PM
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Re: Who Am I 23
Originally Posted by Tezza
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Hedy Lamarr
At the start of her career working in Czechoslovakia, she made a scandalising film called Ecstasy (1935) where she appeared fully nude. Such was the outcry at the time, many picture houses refused to show it without extensive cuts. It is said that the Russian president of that time bought his own uncensored copy.
After fleeing her husband and making her way to London via Paris, she was spotted by Louis B Mayer, the head of MGM who gave her a contract to work in Hollywood - he stated that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. She had a long and varied career in acting including her triumph as Delilah opposite Victor Mature.
Not only was she beautiful and a talented actress, she was also a brilliant scientist helping to develop a frequency hopping device to be fitted to allied torpedoes to prevent their guidance systems from being jammed by enemy forces. The foundations of this device would later be used in the development of Bluetooth devices and latterly in Wi-Fi systems. Her scientific work and contribution to modern technology wasn't recognised until 2014 when she was included in the Inventors Hall of Fame.
Here she is in a typical pose popular in the 1940s.
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