WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth/Hedy Lamarr/Strange Woman (1946)

The Strange Woman (1946) COLORIZED | Hedy Lamarr | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | Full Movie

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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor best known for her groundbreaking work in technology during World War II. Alongside composer George Antheil, she co-invented a frequency-hopping spread spectrum system to prevent enemy jamming of radio signals, laying the foundation for modern wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Despite her fame as a Hollywood icon, Lamarr's contributions to science and engineering were largely unrecognized during her lifetime. Her legacy highlights the intersection of art, innovation, and wartime ingenuity, showcasing how creativity transcends traditional boundaries.

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Awards, honors, and tributes

Public and audience recognitions

• Selected as the "most promising new actress" of 1938 in a poll of Philadelphia film fans conducted by Elsie Finn, the Philadelphia Record film critic (1939).^[91]
• Chosen as the "ideal type" of woman in a poll of both male and female students conducted by the Pomona College newspaper (1939).^[92]
• Named the "most beautiful actress" in "a secret poll of 30 Hollywood correspondents" conducted by the American magazine Look (1939).^[93]
• Won "top honors for facial features" in a poll of 400 members of the California Models Association (1940).^[94]
• Included by makeup expert Max Factor, Jr. among ten glamorous Hollywood actresses with the most appealing voices (1943).^[95]
• Voted the year's tenth best actress by British moviegoers for her performance in Samson and Delilah (1951).^[96]

Film and performing arts recognition

• Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry (1960).^[97]
• Voted 10th best actress by British moviegoers, for her performance in Samson and Delilah (1951).^[96]

Inventor and technology awards

• Jointly honored with George Antheil with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for their work on spread-spectrum technology (1997).^[98]
• Became the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's BULBIE Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, described as the "Oscars of inventing," recognizing individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society (1997).^{[99][100][101]}
• Awarded the Viktor Kaplan Medal of the Austrian Association of Patent Holders and Inventors, in recognition of her inventive work (1998).^[102]
• Posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her role in the development of frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology (2014).^[103]

Places, memorials, and named institutions

• The Hedy-Lamarr-Weg was designated in Vienna Meidling (12th District), naming a street after her (2006).^{[citation needed]}
• An honorary grave for Lamarr was created at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Group 33 G, Tomb No. 80, following the burial of her remaining ashes there, near the centrally located presidential tomb (2014).^[104]

Popular and corporate tributes

• Google commemorated the 101st anniversary of her birth with an animated Google Doodle, and marked her 109th birthday with a second doodle highlighting her film career and scientific work (2015; 2023).^[105]

Science and technology tributes

• The IQOQI installed a quantum telescope on the roof of the University of Vienna, which was named in her honor (2014).^[106]
• The asteroid 32730 Lamarr was named in her honor by the IAU Minor Planet Center (2019).^[107][108]
• One of the Global Positioning System satellites, GPS III-10, was named in her honor (2021).^[109][110]
• One of the radio frequency spectrum monitoring PHASMA satellites was named "LAMARR" in her honor (2025).^[111]

In popular culture

Literature

• Mentioned in Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny, in which Lieutenant Barney Greenwald invokes Lamarr during a tense post-trial confrontation (1952).^[c][112]
• Featured as the central figure in Marie Benedict's biographical novel The Only Woman in the Room, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club selection (2019).^{[113][114][115]}

Film and documentary

• Parodied through the villain Hedley Lamarr in the Mel Brooks western spoof Blazing Saddles, in which the character, played by Harvey Korman, is repeatedly mistaken for "Hedy Lamarr" and irritably responds, "That's Hedley" (1974).^{[citation needed]}
• Her son Anthony Loder appears in the documentary film Calling Hedy Lamarr, which incorporates recordings of Lamarr's personal telephone conversations (2004).^{[citation needed]}
• In the mockumentary The Chronoscope, written and directed by Andrew Legge, the fictional Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel is widely understood to be modeled on Lamarr; the film satirizes 1930s politics through a fascist group that steals Keppel's chronoscope, a device that can see the past and is used to create propaganda films (2009).^[116]
• The story of Lamarr's frequency-hopping invention and her later recognition as an inventor is the subject of the documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was later broadcast on American Masters (2017).^[117][42]
• Lamarr was selected from a group of 150 information-technology figures to be profiled in a short promotional film commissioned by the British Computer Society, highlighting her role in the history of communications technology (2010). ^[118]

Television

 

Hedy Lamarr
Lamarr, c. 1944
Born	Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler November 9, 1914 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	January 19, 2000 (aged 85) Casselberry, Florida, US
Citizenship	Austria (until 1938)[1] Stateless (1938–1953) US (from 1953)
Occupations	Actress inventor
Years active	1930–1958
Spouses	Friedrich Mandl ? ? (m. 1933; div. 1937)?   Gene Markey ? ? (m. 1939; div. 1941)?   John Loder ? ? (m. 1943; div. 1947)?   Teddy Stauffer ? ? (m. 1951; div. 1952)?   W. Howard Lee ? ? (m. 1953; div. 1960)?   Lewis J. Boies ? ? (m. 1963; div. 1965)?
Children	3

2.Love Affair (1939) Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer | A shipboard romance collides with destiny

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@ANGELSVEN

2 years ago (edited)

Wow, what a great movie! Jenny would be classified today as a narcissist and/or psychopath. I had no idea what this movie was about and took a chance on it after accidently coming across it. It was excellent. Cudos to Hedy Lamarr for her excellent acting (and George Sand). The Strange Woman, indeed...a narcissist Cluster B personality disorder according to the DSM-5 301.81. I recognized what Jenny's character would be from the first scene having been around several narcissists.

 

 

@ritusehgal6140

3 years ago

Hedy Lamarr is probably the only actress who could have replaced Vivienne Leigh and played Scarlett with equal elan! She's gorgeous, delightful and deliciously devious in this one! This movie only suffers from having too many moralizing Ashleys and not a Rhett in sight!

 

 

@RealBigBadJohn

3 years ago

Hedy Lamarr was brilliant on many fronts. Not only was she an amazing actress, but she was also an inventor who helped pioneer technology that became the basis for our WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth. (I'm not sure how I feel about this classic being colorized.)

 

 

@trudymccann3671

2 years ago

Whew! That ripped your Heart Out, forget "Gone With The Wind!" This was a cliffhanger, bar none. What an Actress Hedy Lamarr. I had heard of her for years, this is the first movie I have seen her in! WOW! RIP~!