#technological innovator

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✨"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦…"✨ Hedy Lamarr and Tony Martin in the MGM/Robert Z. Leonard musical drama Ziegfeld Girl, 1941. The spectacular musical numbers in the film were directed by Busby Berkeley, and Miss Lamarr's glamorous, and now iconic, showgirl costume was designed by Gilbert Adrian.

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Hedy Lamarr, 1945.

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Hedy Lamarr, 1945.

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Hedy Lamarr, her second husband, producer and screenwriter Gene Markey (second photo, far left), and actor Frank Morgan (best remembered as the Wizard in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz) at a picnic gathering on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California hosted by director John Ford and his wife, Mary McBride Smith, photos by Alexander Paal, 1939.

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Hedy Lamarr in a publicity portrait for the Warner Bros./Jean Negulesco film noir spy drama The Conspirators, 1944.

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Hedy Lamarr by Laszlo Willinger, 1940.

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Hedy Lamarr in a publicity portrait for the MGM/Alexander Hall romantic comedy The Heavenly Body, photo by Laszlo Willinger, 1944.