Google Dedicates Today’s Doodle To Hedy Lamarr. Here’s What You Should Know About Her.

‘Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.’ – Hedy Lamarr

Google’s tradition of paying tribute on important days has seen a number of days commemorated in recent times. So, Google Doodle is celebrating the 101st birthday of Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-American actress and inventor once described as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.

However, Ms Lamarr was not just a pretty face. Here’s why:

1. Born in 1914, Lamarr was one of the most popular actresses in the late 1930s alongside some of old Hollywood’s celebrated actors.

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2. She had captured international attention as the first female actor to simulate an orgasm in a non-pornographic film.

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3. Some of her films include White Cargo (1942), Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah (1949) and The Female Animal (1957).

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4. Soon she tried her hand at inventing and in the process invented an improved traffic light and a tablet that dissolved in water to create a carbonated drink.

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5. She married a Nazi arms dealer and it was during this time she was first exposed to weapons technology at the dinner parties.

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6. She was horrified by the events of World War II and felt compelled to invent something to help the Allied cause.

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7. The Hollywood actress invented a weapons communication system that formed a code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy personnel.

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8. The earliest form of spread spectrum communication (wireless technologies including present-day Bluetooth and Wifi) was thus born.

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9. The first female recipient of the BULBIE Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, Lamarr combined beauty and brains, along with acting accomplishments.

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Who would have thought the ‘most beautiful women in the world’ could have developed technologies in the modern world?

Happy Birthday, Hedy Lamarr. ?

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