Born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, the late screen siren known as Hedy Lamarr was famous for two things: her glamorous good looks and a scandalous performance, while still a teenager, in "Ekstase" ...

It’s likely that even the most ardent movie fan is not familiar with the name Hedwig Kiesler. It’s even probable that a good share of regular moviegoers don’t know the name Hedy Lamarr. But they’re ...

The famously beautiful actress Hedy Lamarr set movie screens ablaze in the 1940s and ’50s, but what few knew was that her true calling was as an inventor: Credit Lamarr with the Wi-Fi technology ...

Hedy Lamarr was often called “the most beautiful woman in the world.” Really, she was so much more than just a pretty face. There was her illustrious Hollywood career and her second act as the ...

Hedy Lamarr was known to most people as the striking star of films like Algiers, Ziegfeld Girl, and Samson and Delilah – the kind of actor whose presence seemed to fill a theater on its own. Off ...

The most beautiful woman in the world. Inventor of the basis for the technological revolution. An Austrian Jew and wife of an abusive Nazi arms dealer. Hollywood’s original bombshell. Hedy Kiesler was ...

It couldn’t have been easy to be known as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World. But that was the way actress Hedy Lamarr was presented to American audiences by studio head Louis B. Mayer, who came ...

If you seek a riveting period drama that mixes political intrigue with sensuous depictions of decadent nightlife, then travel to 1929 to binge-watch “Babylon Berlin.” With its perfectly paced mystery ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/hedy-lamarr-brainy-bombshell-hollywood-actress-world-war-II-frequency ...