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From Beauty to Bluetooth: The Unexpected Genius of Hedy Lamarr

  Guest Post by Kate Jakubowski The actress known for being the most beautiful woman in the world was never satisfied. Over the course of her life, she married 6 times, published a best-selling memoir she didn’t write and had a patent for a technology that would change the world rejected by the US Navy. Throughout her film career, she was cast in roles where she served as the romantic foil to a much-better paid male lead, and when she produced a few movies that failed financially, she never returned to the box office again. She was once quoted as saying “any woman can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand there and look stupid.” [1] Hedy Lamarr was many things in her life, but perhaps “misunderstood” is the best description. If audiences had only looked beyond the women she played on the screen, they would’ve discovered a brilliant, creative genius. Born in Vienna in 1914, Lamarr was fascinated from a young age by how things worked. Her father inspired young Hedy when he took