Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, “the Angelina Jolie of her day,” was also an avid inventor and the person behind advances in communication technology in the 1940s that led to today’s Wi-Fi ...

Austrian-born actress and scientist Hedy Lamarr left her mark during MGM's 'Golden Age' and on the world of communications technology. Born on Nov. 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria, Lamarr gained fame ...

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Hollywood is a place where folks are often recognized more for their looks than their talent - and actress Hedy Lamarr was no exception. But it's what she invented in her spare time - to help end ...

Remembering Hedy Lamarr: Actress, Weapons Systems Developer Renaissance woman Hedy Lamarr was born on this day 100 years ago. Not only was she a major screen actress, she was also an inventor.

“I’ve never been satisfied. I’ve no sooner done one thing than I am seething inside me to do another thing,” Golden Age screen siren Hedy Lamarr once said. Based on 50 hours of taped ...

Pigeonholed into one-dimensional roles as a Hollywood sex object, actress Hedy Lamarr may initially come off as a squandered talent. When you hear about her never-used contribution to military ...

Looking at them, you wouldn't think Mileva Maric and actress Hedy Lamarr had much in common. Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife, was a reserved and brilliant mathematician. Lamarr was ...

Hedy Lamarr was, to use the old studio lingo, a bombshell, one of the most glamorous stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. But that’s only part of her story. She was also a groundbreaking ...

Hedy Lamarr's face still astonishes with its almost unnatural perfection, and, while everyone in Georg Misch's docu "Calling Hedy Lamarr" seems duty bound to mention her legendary beauty ...

Famed actress Hedy Lamarr – who made movie history with her nude swimming scene in “Ecstasy” – deceived her eldest son all the way to the grave, insisting he had been adopted, new evidence ...