Don't forget to watch Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks...LMFAO!
Join us for the original "HEDY LAMARR DAY NET"
For the 5th straight year we will celebrating HEDY LAMARR DAY ON NOVEMBER 9TH 2020
This special event net will be on at 10am pst/1pm est, (18:00 UTC)
Help us celebrate her accomplishments and of course her 106TH Birthday.
As we celebrate her technological advancements in ham radio and
of course her silver screen roles in many movies she did throughout her career.
Join us and have fun and check in to the Echolink *ROC-HAM* Conference server node #531091or Allstar node #2585,47620
The net which will run 4 hours or longer depending on the number of checkins.
Also we will have the *DODROPIN* Conference server NODE #355800
More details will follow!!! Please check the website DODROPIN.MN.CO for further updates.
Speaking of checking in, a SPECIAL event QSL Card will be available upon request.
Just tell the net controller and they will put you down for one
and of course to obtain your special event QSL Card.
Send a S.A.S.E. (self addressed stamped envelope) to W2JLD, address
is good on qrz, If you do not want to do the S.A.S.E envelope, you can
also send a donation of $3.00 to cover postage and handling cost at dmotorsports@gmail.com (PAYPAL Account).
There will no electronic version of this sent
In 2019 we had a very successful event.
We had 104 checkins and 54 QSL cards sent out last year. Which was her 105th Birthday!!!!
Please join us in celebrating the technical accomplishments of a very
talented yl, whom without her inventions, we would not have Wi-Fi or
Bluetooth or gps. We will have the DODROPIN, HAM
So be sure to put that day aside and join us, We will have 4 great
yl's whom have taken time out of the day to celebrate this event
FOR THOSE WHOM USE NETLOGGER WE WILL BE USING THAT SOFTWARE PROGRAM
AND WE WILL BE STREAMING THE EVENT ON YOUTUBE ON WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY
YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND WE WILL HAVE A BROADCASTIFY LINK. HERE IS THE LINK :
hedy-lamarr.kg5zi.us
HERE IS THE NET CONTROLLERS LINEUP FOR MONDAY NOV 9TH:
1800UTC TO 1900UTC/1PM EST - 2PM EST/ 10AM - 11AM PST - VA3ODJ/DESIREE - 1 HOUR SHIFT
1900UTC TO 2000UTC/2PM EST - 3PM EST/ 11AM - 12NOON PST - KI7BR/BARBARA - 1 HOUR SHIFT
2100UTC TO 2200UTC/3PM EST - 4PM EST/ 12NOON PST - 1PM PST - KN4SVL/MARGO - 1 HOUR SHIFT
2200UTC TO 2300UTC/4PM EST - 5PM EST/ 1PM - 2PM PST - KD2GUT/CARYN EVE MURRAY - 1 HOUR SHIFT
AMATEUR RADIO NEWLINE DID A REPORT ON HEDY LAMARR DAY HERE IS THERE REPORT:
AN ECHOLINK NET CELEBRATES ACTRESS HEDY LAMARR
NEIL/ANCHOR: Actress Hedy Lamarr was as noted for her performances as
her penchant for inventing in the realm of radio. There's a party for
her on Echolink - and Jim Damron N8TMW tells us about it.
JIM: Among radio enthusiasts and fellow tinkerers, the late actress
Hedy Lamarr deserved her name up in lights for reasons that had nothing
to do with Hollywood. An inventor with a penchant for technology the
star is credited with helping develop a patented radio signaling device
used during the Second World War that years later led to GPS, Bluetooth,
increased security on mobile phones and Wi-Fi. In 1997 - just three
years before her death at the age of 85 - she was given the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award.
On Monday, November 9th, which would have been her 106th birthday,
the Echolink ROC-HAM Conference Server is hosting Hedy Lamarr Day with a
four-hour net. Four YL net controllers will be taking check-ins and
celebrating her accomplishments. The net will also be accessible on the
DODROPIN Conference Server Node 355800.
For just a short while, Hedy Lamarr will also be back on the screen -
the small screen in this case. Organizer John DeRycke W2JLD told
Newsline that the event will be streamed on YouTube's World Amateur
Radio Day channel. It will also be heard on Broadcastify.
Be watching Netlogger - and be listening on EchoLink -- for the call
sign N9H and visit the QRZ page for details about a special event QSL
card.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jim Damron N8TMW.
Hedy Lamarr: 58 unknown facts about the actress and inventor!
1. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born 9 November 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
2. She is the only child of Gertrud “Trude” Kiesler and Emil Kiesler.
3. Her father was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine) and was a successful bank director.
4. Her mother was a pianist and Budapest native who came from an
upper-class Jewish family; she had converted from Judaism to Catholicism
and was described as a “practicing Christian”, who raised her daughter
as a Christian.
5. Lamarr helped get her mother out of Austria (then under Nazi
domination) and to the United States. Her mother later became a United
States citizen.
6. Gertrud Kiesler put “Hebrew” as her race on her petition for
naturalization as a United States citizen. She would live out the rest
of her life in California, dying in 1977 at age 83.
7. In the late 1920s, Lamarr was discovered as an actress and brought
to Berlin by producer Max Reinhardt. Following her training in the
theater, she returned to Vienna, where she began to work in the film
industry, first as a script girl, and soon as an actress.
8. In early 1933, at age 18, she starred in Gustav Machatý’s film,
Ecstasy (Ekstase in German, Extase in Czech), which was filmed in
Prague, Czechoslovakia. Lamarr’s role was that of a neglected young wife
married to an indifferent older man. The film became notorious for
showing Lamarr’s face in the throes of orgasm as well as close-up and
brief nude scenes in which she is seen swimming and running through the
woods.
9. On 10 August 1933, Lamarr married Friedrich Mandl, an Austrian
military arms merchant and munitions manufacturer who was reputedly the
third-richest man in Austria.
10. Lamarr was 18 years old and Mandl was 33. In her autobiography
Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr described Mandl as an extremely controlling
husband who strongly objected to her simulated orgasm scene in Ecstasy,
and prevented her from pursuing her acting career.
11. Lamarr claimed she was kept a virtual prisoner in their castle home, Schloss Schwarzenau.
12. Mandl had close social and business ties to the fascist
government of Italy, selling munitions to Mussolini and, although his
father was Jewish, had ties to the Nazi government of Germany as well.
13. Lamarr wrote that Mussolini and Hitler attended lavish parties at
the Mandl home. Lamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings, where he
conferred with scientists and other professionals involved in military
technology. These conferences were her introduction to the field of
applied science and the bedrock that nurtured her latent talent in
science.
14. Lamarr’s marriage to Mandl eventually became unbearable, and she decided to separate herself from both him and her country.
15. In her autobiography, she wrote that she disguised herself as her
maid and fled to Paris; but by other accounts, she persuaded Mandl to
let her wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party, then disappeared
afterward.
16. After arriving in Paris in 1937, she met Louis B. Mayer, who was
scouting for talent in Europe. Mayer persuaded her to change her name to
Hedy Lamarr (she had been known as “the Ecstasy lady”), choosing the
surname in homage to the beautiful silent film star, Barbara La Marr.
17. He brought her to Hollywood in 1938, and began promoting her as the “world’s most beautiful woman”.
18. Lamarr made her American film debut in Algiers (1938), opposite
Charles Boyer. The film created a “national sensation,” says Shearer.
19. She was billed as an unknown but well-publicized Austrian
actress, which created anticipation in audiences. Mayer hoped she would
become another Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich. According to one viewer,
when her face first appeared on the screen, “everyone gasped…Lamarr’s
beauty literally took one’s breath away.”
20. In future Hollywood films, she was invariably typecast as the
archetypal, glamorous seductress of exotic origin. Lamarr played
opposite the era’s most popular leading men.
21. Her many films included Boom Town (1940) with Clark Gable and
Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo (1942), Tortilla Flat
(1942) with Tracy and John Garfield, H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) with
Robert Young, and Dishonored Lady (1947). In 1941, Lamarr was cast
alongside Lana Turner and Judy Garland in Ziegfeld Girl.
22. Lamarr made 18 films from 1940 to 1949, and also had two children during that time (in 1945 and 1947).
23. After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B.
24. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.
25. However, following a comedic role opposite Bob Hope in My
Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only
sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of
Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen’s critically panned epic, The Story of
Mankind (1957).
26. White Cargo, one of Lamarr’s biggest hits at MGM, contains
arguably her most memorable film quote, delivered with provocative
invitation: “I am Tondelayo. I make tiffin for you?” This line typifies
many of Lamarr’s roles, which emphasized her beauty and sexuality, while
giving her relatively few lines.
27. The lack of acting challenges bored Lamarr. She reportedly took up inventing to relieve her boredom.
28. Lamarr’s earliest inventions included an improved traffic
stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a
carbonated drink. The beverage was unsuccessful; Lamarr herself said it
tasted like Alka-Seltzer.
29. With the ongoing World War, Lamarr was inspired to contribute to
the war effort, designing a jam-proof radio guidance system for
torpedoes. With the help of composer George Antheil, they drafted
designs for a new frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum technology that
they later patented.
30. Lamarr and Antheil realized that radio-controlled torpedoes,
which could be important in the naval war, could easily be jammed,
thereby causing the torpedo to go off course.
31. With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first
husband, and using a method similar to the way piano rolls work, they
designed a frequency-hopping system that would continually change the
radio signals sent to the torpedo.
32. Their invention was granted a patent on 11 August 1942 (filed
using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey). Yet, it was technologically
difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not
receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.
33. Only in 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis) did an
updated version of their design appear on Navy ships.The design is one
of the important elements behind today’s spread-spectrum communication
technology, such as modern CDMA, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth
technology.
34. In 1997, they received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer
Award and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to
individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences,
business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to
society.
35. She was featured on the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel.
36. In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
37. Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 38 on 10 April 1953.
38. In 1966, she was arrested in Los Angeles for shoplifting. The charges were eventually dropped.
39. In 1991, she was arrested on the same charge in Florida, this
time for stealing $21.48 worth of laxatives and eye drops. She pleaded
“no contest” to avoid a court appearance, and the charges were once
again dropped in return for a promise to refrain from breaking any laws
for a year.
40. Her autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, was published in 1966.
However, she said on TV that it was not actually written by her,
implying that much of it was fictional.
41. According to the book, she slipped into a brothel and hid in an
empty room while fleeing her estranged husband, Fritz Mandl. While her
husband searched the brothel, a man entered the room and she had sex
with him so she could remain unrecognized. She escaped by hiring a maid
who resembled her, she drugged the maid and used her uniform as a
disguise to escape.
42. Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many of the
anecdotes in the book, which was described by a judge as “filthy,
nauseating, and revolting,” were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo
Guild. She was also sued in Federal Court by Gene Ringgold, who asserted
the actress’s autobiography contained material from an article about
her life which he wrote in 1965 for a magazine called Screen Facts.
43. The publication of her autobiography took place about a year
after the accusations of shoplifting and a year after Andy Warhol’s
short film Hedy (1966). The shoplifting charges coincided with a failed
attempt to return to the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (1966). The role
was ultimately filled by Zsa Zsa Gabor.
44. The 1970s was a decade of increasing seclusion for Lamarr. She
was offered several scripts, television commercials, and stage projects,
but none piqued her interest.
45. In 1974, she filed a $10-million lawsuit against Warner Bros.,
claiming that the running parody of her name (“Hedley Lamarr”) in the
Mel Brooks’ comedy Blazing Saddles infringed her right to privacy.
46. Brooks said he was flattered. Τhe studio settled out of court for
an undisclosed nominal sum and an apology to Lamarr for “almost using
her name”. Brooks said that Lamarr “never got the joke”.
47. With failing eyesight, she retreated from public life and settled in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1981.
48. For several years beginning in 1997, the boxes of CorelDRAW’s
software suites were graced by a large Corel-drawn image of Lamarr. The
picture won CorelDRAW’s yearly software suite cover design contest in
1996. Lamarr sued Corel for using the image without her permission.
Corel countered that she did not own rights to the image. The parties
reached an undisclosed settlement in 1998.
49. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lamarr has a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd adjacent to
Vine St where the Walk is centered.
50. In her later years, Lamarr turned to plastic surgery to preserve
the looks she was terrified of losing. Lamarr had to endure disastrous
results. “She had her breasts enlarged, her cheeks raised, her lips made
bigger, and much, much more” said her son, Anthony. “She had plastic
surgery thinking it could revive her looks and her career, but it
backfired and distorted her beauty”. Anthony Loder also claimed that
Lamarr was addicted to pills.
51. Lamarr became estranged from her adopted son, James Lamarr Loder,
when he was 12 years old. Their relationship ended abruptly and he
moved in with another family. They did not speak again for almost 50
years. Lamarr left James Loder out of her will and he sued for control
of the US$3.3 million estate left by Lamarr in 2000.
52. Lamarr was married and divorced six times. She adopted a son,
James, in 1941, during her second marriage to Gene Markey. She went on
to have two biological children, Denise (born 1945) and Anthony (born
1947), with her third husband, actor John Loder, who also adopted James.
53. The following is a list of her marriages:
Friedrich Mandl (married 1933–1937), chairman of the Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik.
Gene Markey (married 1939–1941), screenwriter and producer. Child:
James Lamarr Markey (born 9 January 1939), adopted 12 June 1939, and
re-adopted by John Loder; the child was thereafter known as James Lamarr
Loder. The couple lived at 2727 Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills,
California during their marriage.
John Loder (married 1943–1947), actor. Children: Denise Loder (born
19 January 1945), married Larry Colton, a writer and former baseball
player, and Anthony Loder (born 1 February 1947), married Roxanne who
worked for illustrator James McMullan. Anthony Loder was featured in the
2004 documentary film Calling Hedy Lamarr.
Ernest “Ted” Stauffer (married 1951–1952), nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader.
W. Howard Lee (married 1953–1960); a Texas oilman (who later married film actress Gene Tierney).
Lewis J. Boies (married 1963–1965); Lamarr’s own divorce lawyer.
54. Following her sixth and final divorce in 1965, Lamarr remained single for the last 35 years of her life.
55. Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida, on 19 January 2000, aged 85.
56. Her death certificate cited three causes: heart failure, chronic valvular heart disease, and arteriosclerotic heart disease.
57. Her death coincided with her daughter Denise’s 55th birthday. Her
son Anthony Loder took her ashes to Austria and spread them in the
Vienna Woods, in accordance with her last wishes.
58. Lamarr was given an honorary grave in Vienna’s Central Cemetery in 2014.
