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“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”This book is a collection of the quotes and aphorisms of Hedy Lamarr. It grants her reflections on subjects ranging from art, women and men, sex, love and life. The well researched and editedMore“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”This book is a collection of the quotes and aphorisms of Hedy Lamarr. It grants her reflections on subjects ranging from art, women and men, sex, love and life. The well researched and edited compilation of phrases provides approaching into the way of thinking of Hedy Lamarr.Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian actress and inventor, who was a contract star of MGMs Golden Age. She was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, and was a student of theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin. She began her career in 1930 in Czech and German films. It was the Czech production Ekstase (1933), in which she caused an international sensation by appearing nude and simulating orgasm that brought her worldwide attention. The resulting notoriety got her called to Hollywood, and she was signed by MGM. The studio changed her name to the more elegant Hedy Lamarr and put her in a series of exotic adventure epics such as Algiers (1938) and White Cargo (1942). Her biggest success was in Cecil B. DeMilles spectacular Samson and Delilah (1949) as the title temptress, but her career declined from that point as her looks began to fade and a new crop of beauties supplanted her. She left the screen in 1957.Lamarr and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. Hedy Lamarr: Quotes by IKON-М
