This Sunday I am digging back in time to a beauty from the golden age of the cinema screen with Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr. Why you may ask! Because of her, sheer beauty. On top of that, she starred in such films as White Cargo (1942) and one of my favourites, My Favourite Spy (1951) alongside Bob Hope.
A surprise to most she had a sideline to acting the Austrian and American film actress was an inventor working in her spare time on various hobbies and inventions. While dating Howard Hughes he actively supported her "tinkering" hobbies and even put his team of science engineers at her disposal, saying they would do or make anything she asked for. While with Hughes, she presented him with sketched ideas to make wings on planes less square and more efficient.
Later during the Second World War she designs a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes, the idea was taken up in the sixties, and the technology still used today.
I love the forties and fifties style of women of the time and Lamarr had it in spades and during the war was a favourite pin-up of the troops. When I thing of her my mind will trip over her sultry beauty, perfect eyebrows, lipstick that never seems to smudge. You can see from the pictures just how beautiful she was and why someone like me would have a crush on her.
She was the leading lady in a scandalous 1933 German film called Ecstasy, which made headlines due to the fact that Lamarr spends a large proportion of the film running around naked that was shocking anywhere outside some European countries.
You can see why she was called “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films,”
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| Ecstasy 1933 |
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| Samson and Delilah 1949 |
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