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Hedy Lamarr Trivia
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- Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, A Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.
- Her profile was the most requested in the 1940s by women to their plastic surgeons.
- Children: Anthony (b. 1947), Denise (b. 1945), and James (b. 1939)
- Extase (1932) was banned in Germany because Hedy was Jewish and Adolf Hitler was chancellor at the time.
- Arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. Found not guilty.
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