Famous Actress Hedy Lamarr Smoking
About Hedy Lamarr : Hedy Lamarr (9 November 1913 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".
When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe" due to her "strikingly dark exotic looks", a sentiment widely shared by her audiences and critics.
She gained fame after starring in Gustav Machaty's Ecstasy, a film which featured closeups of her during orgasm in one scene (said to be unsimulated), as well as full frontal shots of her in another scene, both very unusual for the socially conservative period in which the bulk of her career took place.
Mathematically talented, Lamarr also co-invented—with composer George Antheil—an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only child of assimilated Jewish parents. Her mother, Gertrud (nee Lichtwitz), was a pianist and Budapest native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and her father, Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, was a successful bank director.
She studied ballet and piano at age 10.
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