Hedy Lamarr
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, she met Louis B.
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- 🏆 National Inventors Hall of Fame🏆 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame🏆 EFF Award
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1914
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