(Both authors wisely omit Lamarr’s appearance in 1933’s Ecstasy a scene showing her swimming in the nude caused a scandal when that film was released, even as it also gained the notice of MGM head Louis B. Her love of playacting, meanwhile, combined with her beauty as she grew older, led the girl then known as Hedwig Kiesler to acting classes, followed by theater and film work in Vienna and Berlin. “But the world as we know it today might not be without her.”īoth books trace the story of Lamarr’s childhood in Vienna, her love for her father, and her quick mind for taking any type of machine apart to figure out how it worked.
“Hedy’s life was a true dichotomy, and sometimes she struggled with that,” Wallmark says. Indeed, these two stories and their artful, colorful images are the latest to highlight a truism we’ve yet to fully grasp in our culture: When you use a cell phone, GPS or Wi-Fi, you’re doing so thanks to technology that resulted from Lamarr’s most notable invention. Lucy Liu to Narrate Audiobook of Celeste Ng's 'Our Missing Hearts' NovelĪs their titles imply, while both books touch on Lamarr’s Hollywood career, it’s the work she did at night, after a full day on an MGM set, that brought her the most satisfaction, if not notoriety at the time.
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