Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr is another example of a beautiful woman who is truly fascinating for reasons way beyond her outer beauty! During WWII she started working on “frequency hopping”, a technique used to stop radio signal jamming that sabotaged the ability of submarines to control torpedoes. After she got in patented it was actually unused for a while, but it eventually was very useful in contributing to the invention of various military and civilian devices using similar technology. Lamarr was also the iconic actress who depicted the first woman having an orgasm on the big screen in the Czech film, Ecstasy, in 1933.
Hedy Lamarr
Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman had been acting in the German and Swedish film industry since the 1930s, but when she took the central role opposite Humphrey Bogart in the classic film Casablanca, she received international critical acclaim. Her astounding international appeal was so wide one biographer described her as “arguably the most international star in the history of entertainment.” A director she worked with, Anatole Litvak, said of her character that “through all her troubles she held to the conviction that she had been true to herself and it made her quite a person.” Sadly she died in 1982 of breast cancer.
Ingrid Bergman
