As an actress, she was known as the “most beautiful woman in the world” during the 1940s. Lamarr was also a technological ...

Lamarr was, at one time, known as "the most beautiful woman in the world," cast as the exotic seductress opposite top male stars like Clark Gable during Hollywood's Golden Age. But Marie Benedict ...

Lamarr was born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, in 1914, to an assimilated Jewish family.In Hedy’s Folly, Rhodes paints a captivating picture of the artistic, intellectual Vienna of Lamarr ...

Hedy Lamarr was known as the most beautiful woman in the world at the height of her Hollywood career. The Austrian-American actress was celebrated for her beauty and reached the pinnacle of fame ...

Gadot has signed on to play Hedy Lamarr for a Showtime limited series. While Lamarr was known as "the most beautiful woman in the world" as an actress, she also contributed to the world via ...

Hedy Lamarr, blessed with beauty, was cursed with the inescapable label “the most beautiful woman in the world.” The Austrian-born star never got the roles or the praise that went to the great ...

'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night One of the biggest actresses of MGM's Golden Age, also lived a quiet life as an inventor. During World War II, Hedy Lamarr invented a form of ...

Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful and glamorous woman in Hollywood’s studio heyday had a REMARKABLE life. Robert and Cristina Farruggia’s new musical “Beyond Beautiful,” which enjoyed a ...

HEDY LAMARR: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN FILM BY RUTH BARTON (University Press of Kentucky £27.50) By MICHAEL SIMKINS Updated: 05:35 EDT, 17 August 2010 . Temptress: Hedy Lamarr in Samson & Delilah.

The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. By Richard Rhodes. Doubleday. 261 pp. $26.95. Comments. A note to our readers.

Entertainment 'Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World' Published: ; Dec. 01, 2011, 2:16 p.m.

Invention is a lonely profession, full of underappreciated garage tinkerers. Such stereotypes apply to even Hedy Lamarr, who invented a crucial communications technology while battling perceptions ...