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Hedy Lamarr in I Take This Woman, 1940

lucynic83: Hedy Lamarr photographed on the set of Samson and Delilah, 1949

lucynic83:

Hedy Lamarr photographed on the set of Samson and Delilah, 1949

lucynic83: Hedy Lamarr and director Cecil B. DeMille photographed on the set of Samson and Delilah, 1949

lucynic83:

Hedy Lamarr and director Cecil B. DeMille photographed on the set of Samson and Delilah, 1949

Hedy Lamarr photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1941

Hedy Lamarr photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1941

“She set aside one room in her home, had a drafting table installed with a proper lighting and proper tools and a whole wall in the room of engineering reference books, and invented. When she gave the technology away it seems to her the very least they could do is pat her on the head and give her some acknowledgement. But even after she passed away, her orbituaries began with what everyone already knew: her heauty. They generally made only a glancing reference to that invention, the one she hoped could show the world that her mind was beautiful too” 

“She set aside one room in her home, had a drafting table installed with a proper lighting and proper tools and a whole wall in the room of engineering reference books, and invented. When she gave the technology away it seems to her the very least they could do is pat her on the head and give her some acknowledgement. But even after she passed away, her orbituaries began with what everyone already knew: her heauty. They generally made only a glancing reference to that invention, the one she hoped could show the world that her mind was beautiful too”