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Lamarr's leading men included Clark Gable, William Powell, Spencer Tracy and Ray Milland. Her personal favorite film, Cecil B. De Mille's Samson and Delilah was a huge hit in 1949. As the Delilah to Victor Mature's Samson, Lamarr exuded sexuality.
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Hedy Lamarr got her marquee name from MGM's Louis B. Mayer, in remembrance of the beautiful silent-film star Barbara La Marr (born Rheatha Watson in 1896), who had died of a drug overdose in 1926. Mayer's renaming of his new star was ... intended to erase any last traces of the Ecstasy scandal. After all, the film had been banned in America. Her new name was so unfamiliar to her that Lamarr misspelled it when she first arrived in Hollywood in 1937 and signed the hotel register at the famous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard (“Bills to be sent to Louis B. Mayer at MGM.”).
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* Hedy Lamarr: This Hollywood starlet was the unlikely co-creator of "frequency hopping," an early form of missile defense. Although rejected by the military, frequency hopping has become essential in the cell phone industry.
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Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Marie Kiesler on 9th November 1913 in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker and his wife. Her upbringing was very stable but from an early age she dreamt of becoming an actress. By the time she had become a teenager Hedy Lamarr had decided to drop out of school to follow her desire, seeking her fame as an actress.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., May 27 (AP) -- Hedy Lamarr, film actress, was married to John Loder, screen actor, tonight in a ceremony performed here by Judge Cecil D. Holland and witnessed only by five other persons. The Vienna-born actress and Loder, whose father was a British Army officer, invited no guests.
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Lamarr was actually more beautiful in still pictures than she was onscreen in some of her early films. In ``Boom Town'' (1940) she played Clark Gable's mistress -- Claudette Colbert was the wife -- and she looked awkward. She had a better time opposite Gable again in ``Comrade X'' (1940). It was a shameless rehash of ``Ninotchka,'' but the comedy allowed her to be lively. The drab Soviet workers' clothing was ... a better showcase for her looks than the garish '40s fashions.
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