Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many of the anecdotes in the book, which was described by a judge as " filthy, nauseating, and revolting ", were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.

* 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.

) Lamarr believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town.

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 ".

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 ).

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 ".

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.

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.

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

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 1966, Lamarr was arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles.

The 1970s were a decade of increasing seclusion for Lamarr.

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.

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.

Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution.

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.

The two men appeared in nine films together, including Casablanca ( 1942 ) as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari ( for which he received a salary of $ 3, 750 per week for seven weeks ), as well as Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ), Passage to Marseille ( 1944 ), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, receiving top billing ), The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ), Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ), Three Strangers ( 1946, receiving top billing ) and The Verdict ( 1946, with top billing ).

Other actors who were considered for the film include: Maurice Evans, Joseph Cotten, Alan Marshal, James Mason for " Anthony Keane "; Hedy Lamarr for Mrs. Paradine ; Claude Rains for " Lord Thomas Horfield "; and Robert Newton for Mrs. Paradine's lover.

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.

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.

Lamarr contributed the knowledge of torpedo control gained from her husband and Antheil a method of controlling the spread spectrum sequences using a player-piano mechanism similar to those used in Ballet Mécanique.

For several years beginning in 1997, the boxes of CorelDRAW's software suites were graced by a large Corel-drawn image of Hedy Lamarr.

Shelley himself appeared on the programme in 2000, where host Mark Lamarr introduced Shelley by saying that without Buzzcocks " there'd be no Smiths or Radiohead, and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading!

When Alyx and Gordon return to the lab some time later, Lamarr escapes her cage, and Alyx has to stay behind to help Kleiner catch her, as Kleiner refuses to leave without her.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr ( Harvey Korman ) wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople.

The citizens of Rock Ridge chase the villains back to town to destroy them, but Lamarr runs to the theater while Bart and Jim follow him.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Winer is also the grandnephew of German novelist Arno Schmidt and a relative of Hedy Lamarr.

* 1913 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor ( d. 2000 )

* November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress ( d. 2000 )

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

I Take This Woman with Hedy Lamarr was a critical and commercial failure, but the historical drama Northwest Passage — Tracy's first film in Technicolor — proved popular.

During the 1930s, Remarque had relationships with Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr and then with Marlene Dietrich.

The A-movie was The Female Animal, starring Hedy Lamarr, produced by Albert Zugsmith and directed by Harry Keller, whom the studio had hired to direct the re-shot material in Touch of Evil.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

Although he never invited costar Hedy Lamarr to " Come with me to the Casbah " in the movie, this line was in the movie trailer.

The 1946 film The Strange Woman starring Hedy Lamarr, and based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams is set in early 19th century Bangor.

Some of the people who have stayed at the Tarpon Inn include: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who fished there in 1937 ; Duncan Hines, who spent his honeymoon there ; Hedy Lamarr ; Victor McLaglen ; Aimee Semple McPherson ; Clyde Beatty ; Bob Lilly ; and physicist Edward Teller.

Bailey began touring the country with other comedians such as Mark Lamarr.

He soon developed a rapport with host Mark Lamarr, who continually teased him about his looks and his pre-occupation with woodland animals.

Fleming's 1942 film version of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat starred Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan.

Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only child of assimilated Jewish parents.

In early 1933 Lamarr starred in Gustav Machatý's movie, Ecstasy, ( Extase in German and Czech ), which was filmed in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Lamarr ’ s role was that of a neglected young wife married to an indifferent older man.