PRESENTATION HEDY LAMARR

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Hedy lamarr

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Biography of Hedy lamarr (1914-2000)

She was the only child of an upper-class Jewish couple. From the age of four he had private tutoring;Before the age of eleven he had mastered piano and dance and could speak four languages. At the age of sixteen he began his studies in the performing arts. She successfully entered the world of cinema and would soon be world famous for a sequence in the film Ecstasy (1933) in which she appeared completely naked, something unheard of until then in the history of commercial cinema.Lamarr was betrothed against her will to an arms magnate, Friedrich Mandl. Lamarr later referred to that time as one of true slavery.

her beginning

After marrying on August 10, 1933, he tried unsuccessfully to get hold of all the extant copies of the film in which his wife appeared naked. Very jealous, he forced her to accompany him on all dinners and business trips. She was locked up at home and subjected to strict control. Lamarr had to abandon his fledgling film career and any other activity other than that of Mandl's troupe. She says she could only bathe or undress when her husband was by her side, stalking her.On the other hand, Lamar had taken advantage of her solitude to continue her engineering studies, and used her intelligence to obtain from her husband's clients and suppliers the details of the weapons technology of the time that she handed over to the United States authorities years later; Likewise, some meetings served as a guide for him to devise and patent the technique of frequency switching in the 40s, which would restore him notoriety in the last years of his life. In 1937, Lamarr finally escaped from Mandl. During his confinement, he had a romantic relationship with his maid, which helped him to obtain the help he needed to escape. Lamarr secured the necessary infrastructure to prepare a complete escape plan and escape forever from her husband's clutches.He slipped out of a restaurant bathroom window and fled by car to Paris.

First failed marriage

First scientific appearance

Lamarr, aware of the horrors of the Nazi regime through her husband Mandl, close to fascism, and because she was Jewish, offered the U.S. government all the confidential information she had, thanks to her ex-husband's contacts. In addition, he believed that his intelligence could contribute to the Allied victory, so he set to work to develop new military technologies.Hedy knew that governments were reluctant to make a guided missile for fear that the enemy would intercept or jam control signals and render the invention useless or use it against them. Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their Secret Communication System. This early version of frequency hopping, an expanded-spectrum signal modulation technique, used a pair of perforated, synchronized drums (pianola-like) to switch between 88 frequencies, and was designed to build radio-guided torpedoes that could not detect enemies.

Hollywood

Mayer (a businessman who hired her to shoot a film) convinced her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr (to distance herself from her true identity and reputation, her name was Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), choosing the surname in homage to the beautiful silent film star, Barbara La Marr. He took her to Hollywood in 1938 and began promoting her as "the most beautiful woman in the world."

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President of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik

1933-1937

Gene Markey

Friedrich Mandl

1939-1941

Children: Denise Loder (born January 19, 1945) and Anthony Loder (born February 1, 1947)

Screenwriter and producer

John Loder

She adopted a son, James Lamarr Markey during her marriage to Markey. (He was later adopted by Loder and later known as James Lamarr Loder.)

1943-1947

actor

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Second part

Lewis J. Boies

Ernest Ted Stauffer

Texas Tanker

1953-1960

1951-1952

1963-1965

Lamarr Divorce Lawyer

nightclub owner, restaurateur and former conductor

W. Howard Lee

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