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Google slides about Hedy Lamarr, in a timeline format, with detailed and relevant information about her life, with her family members, love life and all her achievements.

1. Hedy Lamarr A woman who proved that she was much more than just a pretty face

2. Today, we’re going to talk about a woman who had a very inventive and innovative mind Her name was Hedy Lamarr. But, her original name was Hedwig Eva Kiesler.

3. Childhood According to her the best time of her life. 01

4. Childhood She was born on November 9th, 1914 in Vienna, Austria. She was the only child of a Jewish family , this was the reason why she received a lot of attention from her father, who was a bank director and curious man. He influenced her a lot, giving her the important advice to always look at the world with open eyes. Her conversations with her father about the inner-workings of different machines resulted in a 5 year old Lamarr taking apart and reassembling back her music box to understand how the machine worked.

5. Acting career Sadly, Lamarr’s brilliant mind was ignored and her beauty took the stage. 02

6. Acting career When she was a teenager, at the age of 16, an Austrian film director, Max Reinhardt, discovered her and got her 1st small film role by 1930. It was a German movie called “Money on the Street”. However, her popularity skyrocketed after her role in the controversial film, “Ecstasy” in 1932. 1930 1932

7. Acting career She participated in the film Lady of the Tropics in 1939 . The majority of reviews of the movie agreed with the fact that she did an incredible and flawless job. 1939

8. Acting career She starred in the film, Boom Town, in which she participated together with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Claudette Colbert. 1940

9. Acting career A nother film she was part in, was Tortilla Flat . This movie generate discomfort and disappointed due to the very weird and horrible casting for the movie. However, Hedy was considered to fulfill her role exceptionally well except for the fact of her portuguese accent. 1942

10. Acting career She starred in the film Samson and Delilah, which won many awards among them were: 2 Oscar awards one for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color and the other for Best Costume Design, Color both in 1951. In addition to winning the Year's Highest-Grossing Picture of the Boxoffice Magazine Awards in 1950. 1949 This film also gave Hedy Lamarr the nomination of Best Actress in the Picturegoer Awards, in 1951. She got the 10th place.

11. Marriage A complicated stage of her life 03

12. Fritz Mandl 01 She got married with him in 1933 . He was an Austrian munitions dealer, and one of her most adoring fans. Nonetheless , they ended the marriage shortly after. She was incredibly unhappy in that marriage, because he was very manipulative and oppressive , which made her feel like a doll many times, with no mind or life of its own. She escaped from his grasp in 1937 , fleeing to London, taking with her all the knowledge gained from dinner-table conversations over wartime weaponry.

13. Innovative mind Lamarr’s process of scientific discoveries and experimentation 04

14. In London in the same year, In 1937 She met Louis B. Mayer, of the famed MGM studios. She dated him, specifically interested for his innovative desire. Hughes took her to his airplane factories and introduced her to the scientists behind all the process. Like Hughes wanted to create a new type of airplane, one really fast, he asked Lamarr to design it. Hughes helped to fuel Lamarr’s inner innovator, providing her a small set of equipment to use in her trailer on set.

15. Hedy’s design She researched about fishes and birds for the design of the new airplane, reading many books about them. She combined the fins of the fastest fish and the wings of the fastest bird to sketch a new wing design for Hughes’ planes. Before Hety’s help (1935) After Hety’s help (1946)

16. “Improving things come naturally to me” -Hedy Lamarr

17. She was indeed a genius as the gears in her inventive mind continued to turn She went on to create an upgraded stoplight and a tablet that dissolved in water to make a soda similar to Coca-Cola. However, H er most significant invention was engineered as the United States geared up to enter WWII. Other inventions

18. In 1940, Lamarr met George Antheil at a dinner party, a man who shared the same inventive spirit as her. She became good friends with the composer. After her marriage with Mandl, she gained knowledge on munitions and various weaponry that would be beneficial for her invention. And so, Lamarr and Antheil began to fiddle with ideas to combat the axis powers in WWII. The two came up with the extraordinary and amazing idea of a new communication system used with the intention of guiding torpedoes to their targets in war.

19. It involved “frequency hopping” amongst radio waves, with both transmitter and receiver hopping to new frequencies together. This prevented the interception of the radio waves from enemy forces, thereby allowing the torpedo to find its intended target. Secret Communications System Lamarr and Antheil sought a patent and military support for the invention, sadly they only received the patent because the military rejected the proposal of using it. This invention was originally designed to defeat the German Nazis, the system became an important step in the development of technology to maintain the security of both military communications and cellular phones. In 1942,

20. In April 1953, Hedy was really happy in her adopted country, U.S.A. So she became an American citizen.

21. The epilogue What happened after her amazing technological breakthrough? 05

22. She continued to accumulate credits in films the following years, but only until 1958 , her inventive genius mind was yet to be recognized by the public. It wasn’t until many years later that she received any awards for her invention. In 1997 , Lamarr and Antheil were honored with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award, and that same year Lamarr became the 1st woman to receive the BULBIE™ Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, considered the “Oscars” of inventing. Lamarr’s patent expired before she ever saw a penny from it.

23. Hedy’s death The lights turned off, the stage curtains lowered, the show ended 06

24. 2000 She lived a solitary life in her last years in Casselberry, Florida. Place where she died on January 19, at the age of 85.

25. In 2014, Hedy was included into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the development of her frequency hopping technology.

26. Interesting facts

27. Interesting facts 01 Married 6 times Friedrich Mandl (1933–1937) Gene Markey (1939-1941) John Loder (1943-1947) Teddy Stauffer (1951-1952) William Howard Lee (1953–1960) Lewis J. Boies (1963–1965) 02 Arrested 2 times She was arrested twice for shoplifting, the 1st one in 1966 and the 2nd one in 1991. Neither of them ended up in a conviction. 03 Tribute Movie In 2017, the documentary, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was released. It talks about her personal life and technological work, even mentioning her struggles with crippling drug addiction during her last years.

28. End of career Lamarr's acting career began to decline in the 1950s; her last film was 1958's The Female Animal , with Jane Powell. Interesting facts Children She had three children: 1 adoptive one, James, and two biological ones, Denise and Anthony. The navy was hypocrite They refused to use her and Antheil’s system, but in the end, they took credit for their work.

29. In conclusion, she was a fierce, independent, intelligent, beautiful, and multifaceted woman

30. Cheslak, C. (2018, August 30). Hedy Lamarr. Retrieved from https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr IMDb.com. (n.d.). Samson and Delilah . IMDb. Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041838/awards/?ref_=tt_awd Editors, B. (Ed.). (2021, April 19). Hedy Lamarr . Biography.com. Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://www.biography.com/actor/hedy-lamarr Biswas, S. (2020, June 29). Hedy Lamarr . the Quantum Universe. Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://www.quantumuniverse.nl/hedy-lamarr References

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