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By JOHN ADAMS On a sweltering Paris evening in June 1926, a 25-year-old pianist and composer from Trenton stepped out onto the stage of the Théâtre des Champs. David Strom reviews the biography of Hedy Lamarr, The First Geek Movie Star. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story [...]

Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, takes on a decidedly kinder example of technological innovation in Hedy's Folly. Actress and sex symbol Hedy Lamarr once famously noted that to look glamorous, ''all you have Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, takes on a [...]

Given the success that the screen siren Hedy Lamarr achieved in that realm—revealed in Richard Rhodes's fascinating biography, Hedy's Folly—it's a pity more of them don't consider it. In 1940, while acting alongside Jimmy Stewart and Judy Garland in Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, takes on a decidedly [...]

Believe it or not, this essentially happened to Hedy Lamarr. Often proclaimed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” the 26-year-old Lamarr was thriving in Hollywood when, in mid-September 1940, Nazi U-boats hunted By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, AP "Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World" [...]

Hedy Lamarr, Old Hollywood sex symbol, had a brain. It's a fact that may be nearly as overlooked as the inventor's wartime creation: landmark technology that was a precursor to Bluetooth. It's not surprising that she's known best for her sultry persona By LARRY GETLEN by Richard Rhodes After a German U-boat sank an English [...]