Hedy Lamarr Trivia

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The mansion used in The Sound of Music (1965) belonged to her at the time. (imdb.com)

Was co-inventor (with composer George Antheil) of the earliest known form of the telecommunications method known as "frequency hopping", which used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. The method received U.S. patent number 2,292,387 on Aug. 11, 1942, under the name "Secret Communications System". Frequency hopping is now widely used in cellular phones and other modern technology. However neither she nor Antheil profited from this fact, because their patents were allowed to expire decades before the modern wireless boom. She received an award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997 for her work pioneering work in spread-spectrum technology. (imdb.com)

Having died in January of 2000, she has the distinction (of sorts) of being one of the first major entertainers to die in the 21st century. (imdb.com)

The first Inventor`s Day in Germany was held in her honor on 9 November 2005, what would have been her 92nd birthday. (imdb.com)

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 337-338. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (imdb.com)

For her appearance in Ekstase (1933), Hedy is credited as being the first nude woman as well as portraying the first sex-scene in film history. Scenes were cut and additional ones added in order to be able to release it in some countries. (imdb.com)

Measurements: 33-22-34 (1933 in Ekstase (1933) ), 33B-23-35 (1940s starlet), 34B-26-37 (later career), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) (imdb.com)

During her marriage to screenwriter Gene Markey, the two adopted a son, James. She soon after gave birth to two children, Denise Hedy and Antony, while married to actor John Loder. (imdb.com)

Arrested for shoplifting in 1991. One year probation. (imdb.com)

Arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. Found not guilty. (imdb.com)

After a screen test, it was Louis B. Mayer who changed her last name to Lamarr in honor of silent film star Barbara La Marr. (imdb.com)

Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. [April 1998] (imdb.com)

Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court) (imdb.com)

Married 6 times. (imdb.com)

Children: Antony Loder (b. 01 March 1947), Denise Loder (b. 29 May 1945), James (b. 06 March 1939 - father John Loder; adopted 16 October 1939 as James Markey Lamarr). (imdb.com)

Hedy`s credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, a Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland. (imdb.com)

One of the few stars with whom costume designer Edith Head admitted she didn`t like working. The others were Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard. (imdb.com)

Dr. Kleiner`s pet head-crab "Lamarr" in the computer game Half-Life 2 (2004) (VG) is named after her. (imdb.com)

Became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 10 April 1953. (imdb.com)

The mansion used in The Sound of Music belonged to her at the time. (imdb.com)

Her profile was the most requested in the 1940s by women to their plastic surgeons. (imdb.com)

Inventor`s Day is held on November 9, her birthday. (imdb.com)

Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States on April 10, 1953. (imdb.com)

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd. (imdb.com)

Co-invented with George Antheil an early form of spread spectrum encoding (frequency hopping), a key to modern wireless communication. (imdb.com)

Was fluent in German, English, Russian, French, Italian, and Hungarian (imdb.com)