“Hedy's Folly”: The movie star behind your cellphone

'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night NPR - 28 Nov, 2011 by NPR Staff by Richard Rhodes At the height of her Hollywood career, actress Hedy Lamarr was known as "the most beautiful woman in the world." For most of her life, her legacy was her looks. But in the 1940s �" in an attempt to help the war effort ...
	“Hedy's Folly”: The movie star behind your cellphone Salon - 28 Nov, 2011 In the summer of 1940, George Antheil, an avant-garde composer trying to make it in Hollywood, was invited to a dinner party at the request of the most beautiful woman in the world. She, a movie star, wanted to talk to him about her ...