"Hollywood icon by day, unsung science genius by night, Hedy Lamarr is the biography of "the Most Beautiful Woman in the World."--Publisher's description.

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio...

"Women have made some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. In this title, readers learn about Hedy Lamarr from her early career as a Hollywood actress to her invention of a frequency-hopping mechanism that is now used in cell phones and GPS technology. A timeline, sidebars, fun facts, glossary, and index supplement the text."--Publisher's website.

In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) marries rich old man Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart) also seduces his son and his company foreman.

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by rumors and scandal, but it was her looks and Hollywood glamour that captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage in Austria to try her luck in Hollywood. Her notorious nude role in the erotic Czech film Ecstasy (1933), as well as her work with Cecil B. DeMille (Samson and Delilah, 1949), Walter Wanger (Algiers, 1938), and studio executive Louis B. Mayer, catapulted her alluring and...

Little Hedwig loved learning and was curious about the world, but her acting career in Europe led her into an unhappy marriage where she wasn't allowed to be in films anymore. Thankfully, a better future as a movie star and inventor was waiting for her in America.

What do Hedy Lamarr, composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes's caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Hedy Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II. She brought with her not only...

"They called her 'the most beautiful woman of the century', and in a decade when Hollywood still had superstars, she was a legend. These are Hedy Lamarr's uninhibited memoirs in which she conceals little about her six marriages and is outspoken about her hundreds of lovers" -- website.

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.