Hedy Lamarr: from Siren to Scientist
Hedy Lamarr: from Siren to Scientist
Hedy Lamarr was originally Hedwig Eva Kiesler, born in Vienna, Austria on November 9th, 1914 into a well-to-do Jewish family. An only offspring.
Lamarr received a great deal of attention from her father, a bank director and curious man, who inspired her to look at the world with open eyes. He would often take her for long walks where he would discuss the inner-workings of different machines, like the printing press or street cars. These conversations guided Lamarr’s thinking and at only 5 years of age, she could be found taking apart and reassembling her music box to understand how the machine operated. Meanwhile, Lamarr’s mother was a concert pianist and introduced her to the arts, placing her in both ballet and piano lessons from a young age.
Lamarr’s brilliant mind was ignored, and her beauty took center stage when she was discovered by director Max Reinhardt as a teenager in 1931. She studied acting with Reinhardt in Berlin and was in her first small film role by 1930, in a German film called Geld auf der Straβe (“Money on the Street”). In early 1933, at age 18, she starred in the movie Ekstaze, where she gained fame for a brief nude scene and for the first portrayal of an orgasm on a mainstream cinema screen.
Austrian munitions dealer, Fritz Mandl, became one of Lamarr’s adoring fans when he saw her in the play Sissy. Lamarr and Mandl married in 1933 but it was short-lived. She once said, “I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife … He was the absolute monarch in his marriage … I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own.” She was incredibly unhappy, as she was forced to play host and smile on demand amongst Mandl’s friends and scandalous business partners, some of whom were associated with the Nazi party. She escaped from Mandl’s grasp in 1937 by fleeing to London.
The full Ekstase with English subtitles can be found on YouTube,.
It is worth a watch, to enjoy the devices used to suggest sex and orgasm. She swims nude in a lake and her horse runs off with her dress on its back. We see her running nude, but as a reflection in the lake, and then we see her naked from the waist up as she runs arfter the horse. The horse is attracted to another horse and then runs on to where her eventual lover takes it in hand. He sees the dress and eventially sees her hiding naked in the trees, and throws it to her. And so they meet. Later, there is the famous orgasm scene. But after, there is the striking of a match and then a close-up of her smoking. Is this first depiction of smoking after sex? And then there is a close up of her elegantly using a long spoon to stir ice cubes slowly in a tall glass, really anm erotic moment.
After she met Louis B. Mayer in Paris, he persuaded her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr and brought her to Hollywood. Lamarr made her American film debut in Algiers (1938), opposite Charles Boyer. According to one viewer, when her face first appeared on the screen, "everyone gasped—Lamarr's beauty literally took one's breath away."
Hedy made 18 films from 1940 to 1949. After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. De Mille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949. Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course. With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer, and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented. However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military—especially from a movie star.
Rather, Lamarr used her celebrity status to sell war bonds. Under an arrangement in which she would kiss anyone who purchased $25,000 worth of bonds, she sold $7 million worth in one night.
It wasn’t until the 1950s that engineers began experimenting with ideas documented in Lamarr and Antheil’s system. Their work with spread spectrum technology contributed to the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
So, whenever anyone uses their cell-phone or GPS they should think of Hedy Lamarr - especially when they watch porn on WiFi as I'm doing right now, seeing other beautiful women in the throes of real orgasms.
Hedy Lamarr was originally Hedwig Eva Kiesler, born in Vienna, Austria on November 9th, 1914 into a well-to-do Jewish family. An only offspring.
Lamarr received a great deal of attention from her father, a bank director and curious man, who inspired her to look at the world with open eyes. He would often take her for long walks where he would discuss the inner-workings of different machines, like the printing press or street cars. These conversations guided Lamarr’s thinking and at only 5 years of age, she could be found taking apart and reassembling her music box to understand how the machine operated. Meanwhile, Lamarr’s mother was a concert pianist and introduced her to the arts, placing her in both ballet and piano lessons from a young age.
Lamarr’s brilliant mind was ignored, and her beauty took center stage when she was discovered by director Max Reinhardt as a teenager in 1931. She studied acting with Reinhardt in Berlin and was in her first small film role by 1930, in a German film called Geld auf der Straβe (“Money on the Street”). In early 1933, at age 18, she starred in the movie Ekstaze, where she gained fame for a brief nude scene and for the first portrayal of an orgasm on a mainstream cinema screen.
Austrian munitions dealer, Fritz Mandl, became one of Lamarr’s adoring fans when he saw her in the play Sissy. Lamarr and Mandl married in 1933 but it was short-lived. She once said, “I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife … He was the absolute monarch in his marriage … I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own.” She was incredibly unhappy, as she was forced to play host and smile on demand amongst Mandl’s friends and scandalous business partners, some of whom were associated with the Nazi party. She escaped from Mandl’s grasp in 1937 by fleeing to London.
The full Ekstase with English subtitles can be found on YouTube,.
It is worth a watch, to enjoy the devices used to suggest sex and orgasm. She swims nude in a lake and her horse runs off with her dress on its back. We see her running nude, but as a reflection in the lake, and then we see her naked from the waist up as she runs arfter the horse. The horse is attracted to another horse and then runs on to where her eventual lover takes it in hand. He sees the dress and eventially sees her hiding naked in the trees, and throws it to her. And so they meet. Later, there is the famous orgasm scene. But after, there is the striking of a match and then a close-up of her smoking. Is this first depiction of smoking after sex? And then there is a close up of her elegantly using a long spoon to stir ice cubes slowly in a tall glass, really anm erotic moment.
After she met Louis B. Mayer in Paris, he persuaded her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr and brought her to Hollywood. Lamarr made her American film debut in Algiers (1938), opposite Charles Boyer. According to one viewer, when her face first appeared on the screen, "everyone gasped—Lamarr's beauty literally took one's breath away."
Hedy made 18 films from 1940 to 1949. After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. De Mille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949. Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course. With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer, and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented. However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military—especially from a movie star.
Rather, Lamarr used her celebrity status to sell war bonds. Under an arrangement in which she would kiss anyone who purchased $25,000 worth of bonds, she sold $7 million worth in one night.
It wasn’t until the 1950s that engineers began experimenting with ideas documented in Lamarr and Antheil’s system. Their work with spread spectrum technology contributed to the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
So, whenever anyone uses their cell-phone or GPS they should think of Hedy Lamarr - especially when they watch porn on WiFi as I'm doing right now, seeing other beautiful women in the throes of real orgasms.
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