Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914–2000)

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London,…