The Fabulous Legacy of Hedy Lamarr

Eccentric, visionary, and truly sublime, Hedy Lamarr lived through the twentieth century as if she were a character in a spy novel.

"Of her conversation I can remember nothing: when she spoke one did not listen, one just watched her mouth moving and marveled at the exquisite shapes made by her lips," says comedian George Sanders about Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000). Film critic Pauline Kael described her as "inhumanly beautiful"

Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1941

Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1941

This article appears in the May 2018 issue of Jalouse

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