 | ma duron (63)
11/12/2006 |  Certainly worthy of serious consideration as "the Most Beautiful Woman" (also: 'The Fairest of them All') in or outside of films, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Dorothy Dandridge, Grace Kelly and many others notwithstanding (Two Possible exceptions being Louise Brooks and Natalie Wood, of course). And yet, perhaps limited in talent or in choice of movie parts. Inexplicably, Hollywood found little use for Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler other than in mostly forgettable vehicles.
In fairness, she makes 'Ziegfeld Girl' 'White Cargo' 'Algiers' 'Dishonored Lady' and 'Strange Woman' entertaining.
Quotes from one of her webpages:
Hedy Lamarr: "If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
Lamarr says no to sex: In the mid-1950s, Lamarr's career started to dwindle. Hedy said she stopped getting decent work because she wouldn't have sex with a certain film executive to get ahead.
Hedy Lamarr, 1970 interview: "My problem is, I'm a hell of a nice dame. The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money."
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 | GenghisTheHun (177)
10/19/2005 | She was known as The Most Beautiful Woman In Films and also as a co-inventor of the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication.
Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria.
In Hollywood, she appeared in many films, usually cast as glamorous and seductive, including White Cargo and Tortilla Flat (both 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Her biggest success came in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.
In an interview appended to the DVD release of Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks claims that Hedy Lamarr threatened to sue the producers. He says she believed the film's running "Hedley Lamarr" joke infringed her right to publicity. Mel says they settled out of court for a small sum.
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