She was a Hollywood porn star. The first actress to appear nude in a movie, known as "the most beautiful woman in the world". Both Snow White and Catwoman are modeled after her, and Vivien Leigh is proud of her resemblance.
She is also a mathematician and inventor. The "frequency hopping technology" she invented has laid the foundation for CDMA, GPS, WiFi and other technologies, and is known as the "mother of WiFi" .
Only because she is too beautiful can she not be recognized all the time. She donated the invention patent to the government and did not profit from it all her life. "As long as you've ever used a mobile phone, you need to know and thank her.
You know, the contribution of this sexy female star to the global wireless communication technology is unparalleled. ” In 2014, she was inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame. She is—
Hedy Lamarr
Heidi had the most recognizable face of her time and was hailed as one of the most beautiful women in the world. However, she never knew who she was. In her later years, Heidi lived a hermit-like life, shutting out her family. Heidi's life has been surrounded by accolades and scandals that come with beauty. She has been criticized for a long time because of the large number of nudity scenes in the film "Crazy", which was filmed when she was young. Including that she later experienced 6 marriages, and even in her later years, she was arrested for theft...
Even her son Anthony Loder couldn't tell what kind of person his mother was.
The documentary "Stunning: The Biography of Heidi Rama" shows us a vivid and complex Heidi Rama, and also allows us to approach this legendary woman who combines beauty and wisdom.
Stunning: The Biography of Heidi Rama
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Director: Alexandra Dean Screenwriter: Alexandra Dean Starring: Nino Amarino/Charles Amercanian Release date: 2017-08-23 (Tribeca Film Festival ) Length: 88 minutes
In 2016, reporters discovered several tapes of interviews that had been forgotten in a corner. These tapes were the same tapes that Heidi had given interviews. Through Heidi's self-report on the tape, people were able to remove the veil of mystery and learn about the real her.
Heidi Lamar, formerly Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler . On November 9, 1914, Heidi was born into a Jewish family of prominent background in Vienna, Austria. Since childhood, he has lived a prosperous life, has no worries about food and clothing, and has received a good education. Heidi's father, Emil Kiesler, was from Vienna, Austria, and was a local banker. Her mother, Gertrude Lichtwitz, is a pianist from Budapest, Hungary. Heidi said her mother wanted a boy and even had a name. However, Heidi was born, and her mother was not happy about it.
From an early age, Heidi showed a different side. At the age of 5, she disassembled and reassembled an old-fashioned music box, and developed a strong interest in electronics at a young age.
Heidi's father was her inspiration to become an inventor in the future. Although he works in banking, he is also interested in science and technology. When taking Heidi out, always show her how those trams or machines work.
At the age of seven, Heidi was able to perform ballet and piano. She then went to a girls' school in Sweden, where she did very well in all subjects, especially mathematics and chemistry.
Had it not been for her stunning beauty, Heidi Lamarr might have become a scientist. When she was a teenager, she walked into a room and everyone stopped talking and all looked at her. From that moment on, Heidi realized that she had a god-given face.
At the age of 16, despite the opposition of her parents, she gave up the communication major she was studying and went to Berlin, Germany to study acting with the theater director Max Reinhardt.
In 1931, Heidi Lamar found a job as a screenwriter in the German film and television industry. Later, with the advantages of her appearance, Heidi Rama ushered in her first big screen work - "Money on the Street" .
In 1932, Heidi Rama was invited by the Czechoslovakian film to play the leading role in "Crazy Headed" and promised to bring the film to the international market on the condition that she appear naked. In 1933, "Crazy Headed" premiered in Czechoslovakia. The heroine has a beautiful face and a graceful figure, and this is the first time she has appeared naked in a movie, which naturally caused many criticisms. The young and ignorant Heidi was half-coerced to appear in these nude scenes, which also became a "stain" in her future life.
Shortly after filming the film, she met her first husband, Fritz Mandel , a wealthy Austrian arms dealer. Although he was also Jewish, he had close ties to the fascists, and the beautiful Heidi was always by his side at social banquets with clients. Therefore, Heidi also heard many conversations between her husband and clients, and learned a wealth of knowledge about military weapons.
Heidi, who lives in a castle in Salzburg and looks very wealthy, has an unhappy life because she is banned from filming by her husband. After four years of marriage, Heidi kept trying to escape. In 1937, after withdrawing from a dinner party, Heidi stunned her attendant maid with a drug and jumped out of the window. She fled to London overnight on the same day's train, ending the marriage.
In 1937, Heidi Lamarr met Louis Mayer, the owner of Hollywood MGM Company, in London . He entered Hollywood under Mayer's introduction and signed a 7-year contract with MGM. At this time, Heidi didn't speak a word of English, but she was appreciated by MGM with her outstanding appearance. This is probably the so-called God's food.
In 1938, Heidi Lamar starred in the love suspense film "The Soul of the Cape". The image of the black-haired beauty created in the film broke the tradition of blond beauty ruling the screen, and was hailed by Hollywood as "the most beautiful woman in the world".
After that, Heidi was on the cover of all the movie magazines. Even her style has become a target for Hollywood actresses to imitate for a while, and women have changed their hairstyles to the same black hair as her. Every woman wants to be Heidi and every man wants to date Heidi.
During this time, she met various celebrities. Whether artists, writers or politicians fell under her pomegranate skirt, even Kennedy is one of her dates.
Heidi was blunt and innocent, always happy to be with her, and she could marry whoever she wanted. In the end, she chose to marry the unassuming screenwriter and producer Gene Markey . However, this turned out to be the wrong choice. After only a few months of marriage, Gene Magee began dating beautiful actresses from all walks of life, and a heartbroken Heidi chose to divorce.
From then on, Heidi realized the harm that beauty brought her. Because she is not sure, people love her beauty, or love her inner; or because of her beauty, there are all kinds of unrealistic fantasies about her.
After that, Heidi threw herself into her busy work. Actresses of that era worked 6 days a week, had to go to the studio very early every day to prepare hair and makeup, and finish work late at night. Under such circumstances, Heidi did not go back to sleep every day when she came home, but also tried to invent experiments.
During this period, she met aircraft designer Howard Hughes , and their interests in technology hit it off. Although Howard was not a good lover, he provided Heidi with a lot of technical support.
Heidi was also the inspiration for Howard's aircraft design, and her idea of combining the shapes of the fastest fish and birds with the aircraft to increase flight speed proved to be correct.
Later, Heidi invented a portable cola pill similar to an effervescent tablet, which can be turned into a cup of cola just by placing it in water.
In 1940, with war raging in Europe, Hitler basically took control of all of Western Europe and threatened to take over Britain. One day in the summer of 1940, a boat full of children was hit by a German torpedo, killing everyone, including 83 children. The German U-boats at the time, on the brink of winning the war, seemed to be unsinkable, easily dodging the lagging British torpedoes.
Heidi realized that, as a Jew, she had to do something. Heidi remembered her first arms dealer husband, who at a dinner party had heard Nazi officials talk about how to manipulate torpedoes. If the remote control is used directly, it is easy to be interfered by the signal of the same frequency, which will cause the torpedo to deviate from the target. Heidi figured that if changing the keys of a piano could change the sound, changing the frequency of a radio signal could also change the signal. If you keep changing the frequency of the signal randomly, the interference effect of the enemy will be greatly reduced.
In the summer of 1940, Heidi met George Ansel, a pianist who immigrated from Germany in Europe, at a party. The two hit it off and became friends.
Ansel came up with the specific implementation of Heidi's idea, and he used 16 automatic pianos, which were driven by drums, in "Mechanical Ballet" in 1926. This kind of frequency-hopping spread spectrum can be accomplished by installing identically coded drums in the torpedo's receiver and the ship's transmitter, allowing both to operate at the same time, thereby adjusting the frequency, making it difficult for the enemy to control.
However, those who questioned Heidi believe that she stole the idea from her first husband. Because of his status as an arms dealer, he is likely to have access to these secret technologies. Doubters describe Heidi as a woman spy who steals intelligence through beauty.
Heidi's response was: The clearer is self- clearing, and she doesn't care what others say.
In fact, the controversy about the invention is nothing more than because of Heidi's identity as an actress. She is not a top student in science and does not have a strong academic qualification. But when it comes to invention, the most important thing is the idea.
Although Heidi has no professional training in this area, she did come up with the idea of "frequency hopping".
On August 11, 1942, Heidi Lamarr and George Ansel obtained a patent from the United States Patent Office called a secret communication system. In their patent, a total of 88 frequencies were used, the number and the keys of the piano. same. After obtaining the patent, they did not develop the relevant commercial use, but directly handed it over to the government, and they even had to pay the relevant patent maintenance fee for this.
However, transistors and integrated circuits had not been invented at that time, and it was difficult to fit a huge tube device into a torpedo, so the Navy rejected the idea. The FBI has always questioned Heidi's marriage to Mandel, and her contacts with Hitler and Mussolini before coming to the United States, and wondered if she was fooling the military with this stuff. Rather than inventing the torpedo, the navy advised Heidi, rather than inventing the torpedo, to sell war bonds with a pretty face.
So, Heidi actually went to sell war bonds to resist fascism, and toured the country for the government. She gave a speech and came up with the idea of "Auction Heidi's Kiss," which set a record for a tour that raised $25 million, the equivalent of $350 million in the U.S. in 2016.
For a woman as talented as Heidi, being asked to sell bonds was overkill. This was what people thought at the time was the greatest contribution she could make, and it was a little sad.
And Heidi's development in Hollywood is also very unsatisfactory. She has never been able to get good roles that allow her to play her acting skills. Instead, she is always asked to play some third-rate movies. This is doomed to prevent her from becoming an actress like Garbo or Ingrid Bergman.
It was not until 1949, with the success of the movie "The Devil's Concubine", that Heidi once again lived in the front line. "Monkey King" is the second highest-grossing film in the past ten years, followed by "Gone with the Wind". Heidi was 35 years old at this time.
Then Heidi made the wrong decision and spent millions of dollars on a film called The Three Queens. The film ended badly, and Heidi was nearly bankrupt. She met her fifth husband, oil businessman Howard Lee , and they married on December 22, 1953. However, Howard was an alcoholic and their relationship was not good, and after 7 years they decided to divorce.
Then came the darkest period of Heidi's life, when her son lay dying in a car accident in the hospital. At the same time, Heidi was called to testify in the divorce court, and the pressure and trauma were on the verge of collapse. She used her film stand-in to appear in court on her behalf. The move angered the judge, cutting her share of the divorce settlement. Heidi became almost nothing again.
Although I have experienced 6 marriages in my life, each marriage can only last for a short time. After that, Heidi's life was lonely and she became addicted to drugs. The drugs caused her to behave out of control, often doing a lot of weird things.
She lives alone in an apartment in Florida, USA, and has even been arrested for shopping mall theft, making her the laughing stock of Hollywood.
The theft also prevented her from playing a later role, and Garbo took her place in the film "The Necklace on Spilled Blood."
And Heidi, who is known for her beauty, was obsessed with plastic surgery in her later years. She is also creative in plastic surgery, designing the facelift surgery plan herself. The cosmetic doctor said that what Heidi asked them to do was something they had never done before. At that time, actresses also quietly imitated Heidi's cosmetic surgery.
However, no matter how hard Heidi tried, she could not survive the years. People only see an old Heidi, who is no longer the same as her youthful beauty. The media also began to be extremely sarcastic at her, saying she was too old and ugly to be recognized.
Later, she underwent several failed cosmetic surgeries, almost beyond recognition. This is probably a woman who has been pampered and despised for her beauty all her life, unable to face the "struggle" when her face is gone.
Later, she simply stayed out of the house, and soon the money was spent, and she could only survive on government relief of $300 a month. Heidi was found dead in her bed at home on January 19, 2000, at the age of 86. Police believe she died in her sleep, with the TV facing her bed still on. She died without getting a penny for the frequency hopping patent. Heidi Lamar, an amazing life. After 6 failed marriages, she was still alone in her later years. No one recognized her as an inventor before her death, and the only value recognized by people was her beauty. In order to keep the world's favor on her, the wrong cosmetic surgery made her the object of ridicule. It's hard to say what beauty brought her. One thing is for sure: Heidi Rama is an extraordinary woman who has made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of human technology.
*The author of this article: RAMA
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