This contributed to her big break in radio with BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr.

Maintaining their bizarre and irreverent style, the pair played host to two teams of celebrity guests ( captained each week by Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson, and later Will Self, and further Jack Dee ) answering what can be loosely described as general knowledge questions.

Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mécanique, originally written for Fernand Léger's 1924 abstract film.

Having been debeaked, thereby eliminating her ability to attach to and control a host, Lamarr has been rendered into a semi-tame pet for Kleiner and a nuisance to anyone else with whom she comes into contact.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

Mathematically talented, Lamarr also co-invented — with composer George Antheil — an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.

In her autobiography Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr described Mandl as an extremely controlling man who prevented her from pursuing her acting career and kept her a virtual prisoner, confined to their castle home, “ Schloss Schwarzenau ,” Though half-Jewish, Mandl had close social and business ties to the fascist governments of Italy and Germany, selling munitions to Mussolini.

Lamarr ’ s marriage to Mandl became for her insupportable and she devised a ruse to separate herself from both the marriage and the country.

Known as " the Ecstasy lady ", after hiring her, he insisted that she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis.

" Lamarr made 18 films from 1940 to 1949 even though she had two children during that time ( in 1945 and 1947 ).

Tired of the life of a celebrity and with her eyesight failing, Lamarr retreated from public life and settled in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1981.

It is reported that, in 1998, Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. " acquired a 49 percent claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock " ( Eliza Schmidkunz, Inside GNSS ), although expired patents have no economic value.

Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida, on January 19, 2000, aged 86, from natural causes.

From its inception until December 2005, it was presented by Mark Lamarr ( who also produced the show, from 2004 through to his departure ).

At the end of 2005, it was announced that Mark Lamarr was to take a break from the show after 150 episodes, to concentrate on other projects.

After leaving The Word, Lamarr was an outside presenter on The Big Breakfast from 1992 to 1996.

Lamarr was host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks when the show launched in 1996 and continued in this role for 17 series until 2005, when he announced that he was to take a break from the show.

On 20 July 1998, Lamarr launched a new show on BBC Radio 2 called Shake, Rattle and Roll, where he plays tracks from his own sizeable record collection of obscure rock and roll gems.

* Lamarr, a headcrab from the game Half-Life 2

In 1992, during an appearance on Channel Four music show The Word, he quoted the verse from the Bible condemning homosexuals, and was subsequently condemned for his comments by presenter Mark Lamarr who said that what Shabba was saying was " absolute crap ".

Originally broadcast in the old Tube time slot of 6 pm Friday evenings, The Words main live show was shifted to a late-night timeslot from 9 November 1990, with a compilation sister show fronted by Mark Lamarr in the week.

Meanwhile, Pepe begins to feel increasingly trapped in his prison-like stronghold, a feeling which intensifies after meeting the beautiful Gaby ( Lamarr ), who is visiting from France.

When Gordon Freeman attempts to use Dr. Kleiner's teleporter, Lamarr jumps from a vent and damages it while Gordon's teleport is in progress, teleporting him all over the city, including Dr. Breen's office in the Citadel.

Pervirella is a 1997 Adventure-Comedy film which was directed by Alex Chandon, the film stars Emily Booth in the lead role and featured brief cameos from Jonathan Ross and Mark Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr (; 9 November 1913 – 19 January 2000 ) was an Austrian-American actress, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's " Golden Age ".

The film became notorious for Lamarr ’ s face in the throes of orgasm filmed in close-up and her full nudity in scenes where she is seen swimming and running through the woods.

In an autobiography of Lamarr written in later years, she insists that all sexual activity in the film was simulated ; the orgasm achieved using " method acting reality .” The authenticity of passion was attained by the film director ’ s off-screen manipulation of a safety pin strategically poking her bottom.

The 19-year old Lamarr had married Mandl, a man 13 years her senior on August 10, 1933.

These conferences became Lamarr ’ s introduction to the field of applied science and the ground that nurtured her latent talent in the scientific field.

Rumors stated that Lamarr persuaded Mandl to let her wear all of her jewelry for a dinner, then disappeared.

She received good reviews for her American film debut in Algiers ( 1938 ) with Charles Boyer, who asked that Lamarr be cast after meeting her at a party.

In 1974, Lamarr filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit to the tune of $ 10 million for the unauthorized use of her name in the Mel Brooks satire Blazing Saddles ; the case was settled out of court.

Lamarr sued Corel for using the image without her permission.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd.

Lamarr took her idea to Antheil and together, Antheil and Lamarr submitted the idea of a secret communication system in June 1941.

Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but was reportedly told by NIC member Charles F. Kettering and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds.

Antheil's interest in this area brought him into contact with the actress Hedy Lamarr, who sought his advice about how she might enhance her upper torso.

Lamarr had fled her Austrian munitions-making husband, and coming to the US had become fiercely pro-American.

James was later adopted again by Hedy's next husband, John Loder, who then changed his name to James Lamarr Markey Loder.

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

Avant garde composer George Antheil and Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr were granted US Patent 2, 292, 387 on August 11, 1942 for their Secret Communication System that details an early version of Frequency Hopping.

The most celebrated invention of frequency hopping was that of actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil, who in 1942 received for their " Secret Communications System ".

An Off-Broadway play, Frequency Hopping, features the lives of Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil.

The creation of ​​ the device designed by Lamarr and Antheil was not implemented until 1962, when it was used by the U. S. military in Cuba.

* August 11-Composer George Antheil and actress Hedy Lamarr are granted a United States patent for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder to detect.

* 1997: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil ( special award ; posthumous with respect to Antheil ), Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg