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Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish heritage to become an "honorary Aryan" at the onset of World War II, Lamarr fled Europe for Hollywood, where she was transformed into one of film's most glamorous celebrities, appearing opposite such actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and James Stewart. As her career faded, she went from one husband to the next, her personal troubles and legal woes casting a shadow over her phenomenal intelligence and former image.
Stephen Michael Shearer separates the truth from the rumors regarding the life of Hedy Lamarr, and highlights her astonishing role as inventor of a technology that has become an essential part of everything from military weaponry to today's cell phones.
- Sales Rank: #676896 in Books
- Published on: 2013-10-08
- Released on: 2013-10-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.15" w x 6.00" l, 1.17 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In this authoritative biography, Shearer (Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life) surveys the career of actress Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000), born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna. In her teens, she was cast in German films, and in 1933, after she appeared nude in Ecstasy, she was catapulted to international fame. During an Atlantic crossing on the Normandie, Louis B. Mayer offered her an MGM contract and changed her name to Hedy Lamarr. Promoted as "the most beautiful girl in the world," she appeared in more than two dozen films between 1938 and 1958. Metro denied her a loan out to do the lead in Casablanca, but her vibrant screen presence in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) left a lasting impression on both filmgoers and Paramount; it raked in over million to become the most profitable Paramount production up until that time. She faded from films in the 1950s, made numerous 1960s TV appearances and then dropped from the limelight, retiring to Florida in 1987. Providing probing and detailed coverage of her five marriages, children, various lawsuits, radio roles and shoplifting headlines, Shearer has combined extensive archival research with insightful interview quotes. The result is a fascinating biography that recreates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour.
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Shearer’s biography does not simply chronicle the life of Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr, from her cosseted childhood in an assimilated Jewish family in Austria to her early breaks in Max Reinhardt’s internationally famous theater company; her scandalous, career-launching nude scene in the Czech film Ecstasy; her tortured first marriage to Jewish Nazi arms manufacturer Friedrich Mandl (dubbed an “honorary Aryan” by the Third Reich); and her daring escape from the sadistic Mandl and Nazi Germany to Los Angeles and MGM. The real beauty of the book is how well and how wholeheartedly Shearer tells this remarkable story. It helps that much of Lamarr’s life reads like a novel, packed with surprise twists and stereotype-destroying details, such as Lamarr’s fascinating after-hours research in military communications systems (done with avant-garde composer George Antheil), research that formed the foundation for the technology used in Wi-Fi and cell phones. For this she won an award in 1997, three years before her death, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One finishes the book feeling that one has read a complete portrait of Hedy Lamarr, actor and inventor, a biography that reveals, with drama and wit, how much more there was to this complex, brilliant woman than her ethereal natural beauty. --Jack Helbig
Review
“Providing probing and detailed coverage of her five marriages, children, various lawsuits, radio roles and shoplifting headlines, Shearer has combined extensive archival research with insightful interview quotes. The result is a fascinating biography that re-creates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Much more than a standard Hollywood biography.” ―Edge Magazine
“In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.” ―Jeanine Basinger, The Wall Street Journal
“Extensively researched and filled with such nuggets, this is the ultimate biography on the screen legend.” ―Indulge Magazine
“Shearer is to be congratulated for this account of Neal's life...Anyone interested in movies as well as U.S. social history will treasure this volume about an extraordinary actress and lady. ” ―The Daily News on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material.” ―Deseret Morning News on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“There is sincerity and dedication behind this work -- it's vibrant and accomplished.” ―PAUL NEWMAN on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures. ... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs.” ―REUTERS on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars.” ―DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“Her life has had so many tragic twists it makes for compelling reading.” ―VARIETY on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress.” ―PUBLISHERS WEEKLY on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
“A rich record of a life, and of the times and places in which that life was lived.” ―GLOBE AND MAIL on Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful.
ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW. . .AND MORE. . .
By Allan Jirikovec
about the life of Hedy Lamarr. . .For all her fans, and there are still many of us. . .(just look up her name on the internet), this is the book we have been waiting for. When we were kids, and teenagers, and even grown men (and envious women!), how we would patiently wait for her to appear. Who could ever forget her dramatic entrance in WHITE CARGO, purring, "I am Tondelayo!" . . .and her emphatic declaration in SAMSON AND DELILAH, "No man leaves Delilah. . ." as though anyone would want to!!!! or her dramatic entrance in ZIEGFIELD GIRL. No one doubted for a moment who Tony Martin was crooning to when he sang, "You Stepped out of a Dream." No one really cared whether she could act or not. . .I think she could! and no one really cared what the plot of the movie was. . .if Hedy was starring, we went in droves... and we were not disappointed.
Stephen Michael Shearer relates all the familiar details of Miss Lamarr's life, but also reveals tidbits of a more personal nature after she left Hollywood and retired, first to New York and then to Florida. One cannot help but feel sad to witness her later years. . . as she tumbled from the heights of stardom to being so unknown that even her neighbors did not know her real identity. Yes,indeed, she was surely right, "Once one has tasted stardom, everything else is poverty!" Fortunately, she had friends who loved her anyway for the real person she was, despite her faults and failings. . .
If you are a Hedy Fan, read this book and you will not be disappointed, and if you are not, you will become one! You will immmediately run out, find all her movies available on DVD, view them once again, and be forever convinced that indeed, she really was "the fairest of them all," during the Golden Years of Hollywood of course. . .but indeed, she is still able to turn men's heads today, and make women wonder. . .
view all her movies once again
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Hedy Lamarr
By A. Safarli
A fascinating book, extremely well written in detailed relative to historical events of 30's and 40's when Hedy was growing up. Hedy Lamar, in addition to her acting, she never got the recognition that she deserved as far as what she did scientifically for SPREAD SPECTRUM technology which now communication technology is based on. I just could not put this book down. Great job.
41 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
By C. Chandler
.....Whose the fairest of them all? In Disney's Classic it was Snow White. If the question had been asked in Hollywood in the Forties, it would have been Hedy Lamarr.
.....When Snow White became the fairest in the land her life became one of turmoil and strife but in the end she was rescued by Prince Charming and lived happily ever after. Unfortuneately there was no Prince Charming to rescue Hedy as she careened recklessly through six husbands after very brief courtships. She seemed to take more care in selecting her wardrobe than she did in choosing a mate. Consequently her marriages were brief affairs, the longest being to oil millionare Howard Lee, 1953 - 1960, who finally got tired of Hedy using him as an ATM machine and was the only one of her husbands to initiate the divorce. He then married Gene Tierney who inherited his estate and lived out the remainder of her life as a socialite in Houston. That was the second time Hedy crossed paths with Tierney, the first being when she turned down Otto Preminger's offer to play Laura in the movie that became a film noir classic. Tierney took the role and it became her signature movie. It was poor judgement like this, combined with gross mismangement by MGM and Louie Mayer that cost Hedy several key roles, (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca, Gaslight, Saratoga Trunk etc.) all taken by Ingrid Bergman and any one of which would have establishd Lamarr as a serious actress. It wasn't until she got the part in Sampson and Delilah at the age of 36 that she was given the type of role that she was born for but at that stage in her career it was too late.
.....How did this beautiful woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and was handed the world on a silver platter end up at one time living on Social Security disability checks and a small SAG pension? This book chronicles the journey.
.....One wonders what might have become of Hedy if she had signed with Paramount early in her career instead of opting to tie her self to MGM and Louie Mayer? Mayer had no idea what to do with Hedy. Mayer prided himself on turning out wholesome family movies, his favorites were the Andy Hardy series and MGM's forte was lavish musicals. Hedy didn't sing or dance and definetly was not family movie material.
.....Between 1938 and 1949 Hedy made three movies that were significant in her career. None of them were made by MGM. She made Algiers in 1938 for United Artists and became an International Star overnight, Experiment Perilous in 1944 for RKO in which the critics praised her acting ability and Sampson and Delilah in 1949 for Paramount. In between these highlights were eight years of very forgetable movies turned out by MGM. One of these clunkers was "White Cargo" and almost ended Hedy's career. In this movie she uttered the immortal line, " I am Tondelayo, I stay". This phrase became an industry joke for bad acting and the actress became Hedy Lamarr. When the Hedy/Anthiel patent for a torpedo guideance system made the news, Mayer instructed his PR people to squelch it, He was selling a glamor girl and he didn't want Hedy's fans to see her as an Egg Head. But it is not fair to blame all Hedy's woes on Mayer, Hedy was always headstrong and not easy to work with. In many way she was her own worst enemy, a modern day Sybll with a many faceted personality. She was promiscuous and very generous with her favors but seemed to go out of her way to antagonize friends. She began to equate money with security but spent it as if it was burning a hole in her purse. She knew from an early age her power over men and how to manipulate her beauty. It almost destroyed her.
.....To quote from the book her former costar John Fraser said it best, "She had been fawned upon, indulged and exploited ever since she had reached the age of puberty. Her extrodinary intelligence did not encompass wisdom. How could she have learnt about the values that matter, about kindness and acceptance and laughter, in the Dream Factory that is Hollywood? She had been thrust into the limelight at a pitilessy early age, been devoured by rapacious lovers and producers who saw her ravishing beauty as a ticket to success and who looked elsewhere when she began to grow older. Beauty and money in moderation are undoubtedly a blessing. In excess, they surley are a curse" She was a real life Norma Desmond but without the money.
.....To be fair to Hedy, she never got into drugs or alchohol or used the casting couch to get parts. She doted on her children and they loved and stood by her to the end. I am glad that she got recognition for her invention of spread spectrum before she died. Her invention was as significant as was Edison's light bulb in its impact on the World.
.....I finished the book with some sadness. She had so much potential. So much that could have been that never was. I hope she found peace in her beloved Vienna Woods.
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