Was fluent in German, English, Russian, French, Italian, and Hungarian
Co-invented with George Antheil an early form of spread spectrum encoding (frequency hopping), a key to modern wireless communication.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd.
Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States on April 10, 1953.
Inventor's Day is held on November 9, her birthday.
Her profile was the most requested in the 1940s by women to their plastic surgeons.
The mansion used in The Sound of Music belonged to her at the time.
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 10 April 1953.
Dr. Kleiner's pet head-crab "Lamarr" in the computer game Half-Life 2 (2004) (VG) is named after her.
One of the few stars with whom costume designer Edith Head admitted she didn't like working. The others were Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard.
Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, a Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.
Children: Antony Loder (b. 01 March 1947), Denise Loder (b. 29 May 1945), James (b. 06 March 1939 - father John Loder; adopted 16 October 1939 as James Markey Lamarr).
Married 6 times.
Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court)
Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. (April 1998)
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