Hedy Lamarr#Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBC2nY1rp5MC&dq=hedy+lamarr+widely+known&pg=PA267 | title=Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century | isbn=9781851097326 | last1=Sterling | first1=Christopher H. | year=2008 | publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }} the only child of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (née Lichtwitz) and Emil Kiesler.

Her father was born to a Galician-Jewish family in Lemberg in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austrian Empire (now Lviv in Ukraine) and was, in the 1920s, deputy director of Wiener Bankverein,{{cite book |last1=Quackenbush |first1=James L. |last2=O'Brien |first2=John P. |title=Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department |date=1920 |publisher=The Hecla Press |location=New York City |page=17 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0VINytH1L4C&pg=RA6-PP31 |chapter=The City of New York against Bridge Operating Company}}{{cite web |url=https://www.jmw.at/museumsblog/news_detail?j-cc-id=1610672643758 |last1=Winklbauer |first1=Andrea |title=Zinshaus, Villa und Palais – Eine Tour zu Hedy Lamarrs Wiener Lebensorten |website=Jüdisches Museum Wien |language=de |date=September 21, 2020}} and at the end of his life a director at the united Creditanstalt-Bankverein.{{cite book|last=Shearer|first=Stephen Michael|title=Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|year=2010|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471817029|isbn=978-0-312-55098-1|oclc=471817029 |ref=Shearer}}{{Cite book|last=Loacker|first=Armin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-9kAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Der+Vater,+Emil+Kiesler,+geb%C3%BCrtig+in+Lemberg,+war+Direktor+des+Wiener+Bankvereins,+die+Mutter+Gertrud+Lichtwitz+stammte+aus+Budapest,%22|title=Ekstase|date=2001|publisher=Filmarchiv Austria|isbn=978-3-901932-10-6|language=de}} Her mother, a pianist and a native of Budapest, had come from an upper-class Hungarian-Jewish family. She had converted to Catholicism and was described as a "practicing Christian" who raised her daughter as a Christian, although Hedy was not baptized at the time.{{rp|8}}

As a child, Lamarr showed an interest in acting and was fascinated by theater and film. At the age of 12, she won a beauty contest in Vienna.{{sfn|Barton|2010|pp=12–13}} She also began to learn about technological inventions with her father, who would take her out on walks, explaining how devices functioned.{{cite AV media |people=Alexandra Dean (film director), Hedy Lamarr, Jennifer Hom, Mel Brooks |date= November 24, 2017 |title=Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story |title-link=Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story |type=Biographical documentary film|time=07:05-08.00 |time-caption=Event occurs between|publisher=Zeitgeist Films; Kanopy|oclc=1101944158}}{{Cite web |author=USA Science & Engineering Festival |date=2014|title=Role Model in Science & Engineering Achievement|url=http://o.usasciencefestival.org/schoolprograms/role-models-in-science-engineering/item/2659-lamarr-hedy.html|access-date=2021-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204170424/http://o.usasciencefestival.org/schoolprograms/role-models-in-science-engineering/item/2659-lamarr-hedy.html|archive-date=February 4, 2017}}

Lamarr was taking acting classes in Vienna when one day, she forged a note from her mother and went to Sascha-Film and was able to have herself hired as a script girl. While there, she had a role as an extra in the romantic comedy Money on the Street (1930), and then a small speaking part in the comedy Storm in a Water Glass (1931). Producer Max Reinhardt then cast her in a play entitled The Weaker Sex, which was performed at the Theater in der Josefstadt. Reinhardt was so impressed with her that he brought her with him back to Berlin.{{sfn|Barton|2010|pp=16–19}}

However, she never actually trained with Reinhardt or appeared in any of his Berlin productions. Instead, she met the Russian theatre producer Alexis Granowsky, who cast her in his film directorial debut, The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931), starring Walter Abel and Peter Lorre.{{sfn|Barton|2010|pp=21–22}} Granowsky soon moved to Paris, but Lamarr stayed in Berlin and was given the lead role in No Money Needed (1932), a comedy directed by Carl Boese.{{sfn|Barton|2010|p=25}} Lamarr then starred in the film which made her internationally famous.

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In early 1933, at age 18, Lamarr was given the lead in Gustav Machatý's film Ecstasy (Ekstase in German, Extase in Czech). She played the neglected young wife of an indifferent older man.

The film became both celebrated and notorious for showing Lamarr's face in the throes of orgasm as well as close-up and brief scenes of nudity. Lamarr claimed she was "duped" by the director and producer, who used high-power telephoto lenses, although the director contested her claims."A Candid Portrait of Hedy Lamarr", Liberty magazine, December 1938, pp. 18–19{{efn|When Lamarr applied for the role, she had little experience nor understood the planned filming. Anxious for the job, she signed the contract without reading it. When, during an outdoor scene, the director told her to disrobe, she protested and threatened to quit, but he said that if she refused, she would have to pay for the cost of all the scenes already filmed. To calm her, he said they were using "long shots" in any case, and no intimate details would be visible. At the preview in Prague, sitting next to the director, when she saw the numerous close-ups produced with telephoto lenses, she screamed at him for tricking her. She left the theater in tears, worried about her parents' reaction and that it might have ruined her budding career. However, the cinematographer of the film claimed that she was aware during filming that there would be nude scenes and did not raise concerns during filming.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/events/2009/Ecstasy_poster.pdf|title=Czech Film Series 2009–2010 – Gustav Machatý:Ecstasy|publisher=Russian & East European Institute, Indiana University|date=September 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911064906/http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/events/2009/Ecstasy_poster.pdf|archive-date=September 11, 2009|access-date=November 9, 2013}}

Although she was dismayed and now disillusioned about taking other roles, the film gained world recognition after winning an award at the Venice Film Festival.{{cite book |last1=Morandini |first1=Laura |last2=Morandini |first2=Luisa |last3=Morandini |first3=Morando |title=Il Morandini 2010: dizionario dei film |trans-title=The Morandini 2010 Dictionary of Films |publisher=Zanichelli |publication-place=Bologna |date=2009 |isbn=978-88-08-20183-6 |oclc=475597884 |language=it |page=493}} Throughout Europe, it was regarded as an artistic work. In America, it was considered overly sexual and received negative publicity, especially among women's groups. It was banned there and in Germany.Extraordinary Women: Hedy Lamarr, documentary, 2011

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Lamarr played a number of stage roles, including a starring one in Sissy, a play about Empress Elisabeth of Austria produced in Vienna. It won accolades from critics. Admirers sent roses to her dressing room and tried to get backstage to meet her. She sent most of them away, including a man who was more insistent, Friedrich Mandl. He became obsessed with getting to know her.[http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes "A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419103621/http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes |date=April 19, 2017 }}, Lemelson Center, November 12, 2015.

Mandl was an Austrian military arms merchant{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/11/hedy-lamarr-inventor-hedy-lamarr-sex-symbol.html|title=Hedy Lamarr: Inventor of more than the 1st theatrical-film orgasm|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 28, 2010|access-date=July 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117071932/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/11/hedy-lamarr-inventor-hedy-lamarr-sex-symbol.html|archive-date=January 17, 2013|url-status=live}} and munitions manufacturer who was reputedly the third-richest man in Austria. She fell for his charming and fascinating personality, partly due to his immense financial wealth. Her parents, both of Jewish descent, did not approve due to Mandl's ties to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and, later, German Führer Adolf Hitler, but they could not stop the headstrong Lamarr.

On August 10, 1933, Lamarr married Mandl at the Karlskirche. She was 18 years old and he was 33. In her autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, she 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. She claimed she was kept a virtual prisoner in their castle home, {{ill|Schloss Schwarzenau|de|Schloss_Schwarzenau_(Waldviertel)}}.

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Mandl had close social and business ties to the Italian government, selling munitions to the country, and had ties to the Nazi regime of Germany as well, even though his own father was Jewish, as was Hedy's. Lamarr wrote that the dictators of both countries 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 nurtured her latent talent in science.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/happy-100th-birthday-hedy-lamarr-movie-star-and-wi-fi-inventor|title=Happy 100th birthday, Hedy Lamarr, movie star who paved way for Wi-Fi|publisher=CNET|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511072950/http://www.cnet.com/news/happy-100th-birthday-hedy-lamarr-movie-star-and-wi-fi-inventor/|archive-date=May 11, 2015|url-status=live}}

Lamarr's marriage to Mandl eventually became unbearable and she decided to separate herself from both her husband and country in 1937. In her autobiography, she wrote that she disguised herself as her maid and fled to Paris, but according to other accounts she persuaded Mandl to let her wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterward.{{cite book|title=City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s|publisher=University of California Press|author=Friedrich, Otto|year=1997|edition=reprint|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles|pages=12–13|isbn=0-520-20949-4}} She wrote about her marriage:

{{blockquote|I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife. ... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage. ... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own.{{sfn|Rhodes|2012|pp=28-29}}}}

File:Algiers 1938 (3).jpg (left) and Hedy Lamarr (right) were Charles Boyer's leading ladies in Algiers (1938).]]

After arriving in London{{cite web|url=https://knowledgenuts.com/2015/09/07/hedy-lamarrs-great-escape/|access-date=May 17, 2018|title=Hedy Lamarr's Great Escape|work=KnowledgeNuts |date=September 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404191848/http://knowledgenuts.com/2015/09/07/hedy-lamarrs-great-escape/|archive-date=April 4, 2018|url-status=live}} in 1937, she met Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, who was scouting for talent in Europe.Donnelley, Paul. Fade to Black: 1500 Movie Obituaries, Omnibus Press (2010), p. 639. She initially turned down the offer he made her (of $125 a week), but then booked herself onto the same New York-bound liner as him, and managed to impress him enough to secure a $500-a-week contract. Mayer persuaded her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr (to distance herself from her real identity, and "the Ecstasy lady" reputation associated with it),{{r|friedrich1997}} choosing the surname in homage to the beautiful silent film star, Barbara La Marr, on the suggestion of his wife, who admired La Marr. He brought her to Hollywood in 1938 and began promoting her as the "world's most beautiful woman".Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. HarperPerennial (1998), p. 780.

Mayer loaned Lamarr to producer Walter Wanger, who was making Algiers (1938), an American version of the French film, Pépé le Moko (1937). Lamarr was cast in the lead opposite Charles Boyer. The film created a "national sensation", says Shearer.{{rp|77}} 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.{{rp|77}} According to one viewer, when her face first appeared on the screen, "everyone gasped ... Lamarr's beauty literally took one's breath away."{{rp|2}}

File:Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr Publicity Photo for Comrade X 1940.jpg and Lamarr in Comrade X (1940)]]

In future Hollywood films, she was invariably typecast as the archetypal glamorous seductress of exotic origin. Her second American film was to be I Take This Woman, co-starring with Spencer Tracy under the direction of regular Dietrich collaborator Josef von Sternberg. Von Sternberg was fired during the shoot, replaced by Frank Borzage. The film was put on hold, and Lamarr was put into Lady of the Tropics (1939), where she played a mixed-race seductress in Saigon opposite Robert Taylor. She returned to I Take This Woman, re-shot by W. S. Van Dyke. The resulting film was a flop.

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Far more popular was Boom Town (1940) with Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Spencer Tracy; it made $5 million.{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}. MGM promptly reteamed Lamarr and Gable in Comrade X (1940), a comedy film in the vein of Ninotchka (1939), which was another hit.

Lamarr was teamed with James Stewart in Come Live with Me (1941), playing a Viennese refugee. Stewart was also in Ziegfeld Girl (1941), where Lamarr, Judy Garland and Lana Turner played aspiring showgirls – a big success.

Lamarr was top-billed in H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), although the film's protagonist was the title role played by Robert Young. She made a third film with Tracy, Tortilla Flat (1942). It was successful at the box office, as was Crossroads (1942) with William Powell.

Lamarr played the exotic Arab seductress{{cite web | url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film/susan-sarandon-hedy-lamarr-strong-well-brilliant/ | title=Susan Sarandon: "Hedy Lamarr was so strong, as well as brilliant" | date=March 8, 2018 }} Tondelayo in White Cargo (1942), top billed over Walter Pidgeon. It was a huge hit. White Cargo 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 sensuality while giving her relatively few lines. The lack of acting challenges bored Lamarr. She reportedly took up inventing to relieve her boredom.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142664182/most-beautiful-woman-by-day-inventor-by-night|title='Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night|date=November 22, 2011|publisher=NPR|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429211415/http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142664182/most-beautiful-woman-by-day-inventor-by-night|archive-date=April 29, 2015|url-status=live}}

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She was reunited with Powell in a comedy The Heavenly Body (1944), then was borrowed by Warner Bros for The Conspirators (1944). This was an attempt to repeat the success of Casablanca (1943), and RKO borrowed her for a melodrama Experiment Perilous (1944).

Back at MGM Lamarr was teamed with Robert Walker in the romantic comedy Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945), playing a princess who falls in love with a New Yorker. It was very popular, but would be the last film she made under her MGM contract.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/107525%7C68054/hedy-lamarr#filmography Hedy Lamarr], TCM Full Filmography

Her off-screen life and personality during those years was quite different from her screen image. She spent much of her time feeling lonely and homesick. She might swim at her agent's pool, but shunned the beaches and staring crowds. When asked for an autograph, she wondered why anyone would want it. Writer Howard Sharpe interviewed her and gave his impression:

{{blockquote|Hedy has the most incredible personal sophistication. She knows the peculiarly European art of being womanly; she knows what men want in a beautiful woman, what attracts them, and she forces herself to be these things. She has magnetism with warmth, something that neither Dietrich nor Garbo has managed to achieve.}}

Author Richard Rhodes describes her assimilation into American culture:

{{blockquote|Of all the European émigrés who escaped Nazi Germany and Nazi Austria, she was one of the very few who succeeded in moving to another culture and becoming a full-fledged star herself. There were so very few who could make the transition linguistically or culturally. She really was a resourceful human being–I think because of her father's strong influence on her as a child.}}

Lamarr also had a penchant for speaking about herself in the third person.{{sfn|Barton|2010|p=97}}

Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but was reportedly told by NIC member Charles F. Kettering and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell war bonds.{{cite journal|author-link=Robert A. Scholtz|first=Robert A.|last=Scholtz|title=The Origins of Spread-Spectrum Communications|journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications|volume=30|issue=5|date=May 1982|page=822|doi=10.1109/tcom.1982.1095547|bibcode=1982ITCom..30..822S}}{{cite journal|author-link=Robert Price (engineer)|first=Robert|last=Price|title=Further Notes and Anecdotes on Spread-Spectrum Origins|journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications|volume=31|issue=1|date=January 1983|page=85|doi=10.1109/tcom.1983.1095725}}

She participated in a war-bond-selling campaign with a sailor named Eddie Rhodes. Rhodes was in the crowd at each Lamarr appearance, and she would call him up on stage. She would briefly flirt with him before asking the audience if she should give him a kiss. The crowd would say yes, to which Hedy would reply that she would if enough people bought war bonds. After enough bonds were purchased, she would kiss Rhodes and he would head back into the audience. Then they would head off to the next war bond rally.Wayne, Robert L. "Moses" Speaks to His Grandchildren, Dog Ear Publishing (2014); {{ISBN|978-1-4575-3321-1}}, pg. 19.

File:Color photograph of Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as Samson and Delilah.jpg and Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949)]]

After leaving MGM in 1945, Lamarr formed a production company with Jack Chertok and made the thriller The Strange Woman (1946). It went over budget and only made minor profits.{{cite book

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She and Chertok then made Dishonored Lady (1947), another thriller starring Lamarr, which also went over budget – but was not a commercial success. She tried a comedy with Robert Cummings, Let's Live a Little (1948).

Lamarr enjoyed her biggest success playing Delilah against Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1950. The film won two Oscars.

Lamarr returned to MGM for a film noir with John Hodiak, A Lady Without Passport (1950), which flopped. More popular were two pictures she made at Paramount, a Western with Ray Milland, Copper Canyon (1950), and a Bob Hope spy spoof, My Favorite Spy (1951).

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Her career went into decline. She went to Italy to play multiple roles in Loves of Three Queens (1954), which she also produced. However she lacked the experience necessary to make a success of such an epic production, and lost millions of dollars when she was unable to secure distribution of the picture.

She played Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic, The Story of Mankind (1957) and did episodes of Zane Grey Theatre ("Proud Woman") and Shower of Stars ("Cloak and Dagger"). Her last film was a thriller The Female Animal (1958).

Lamarr was signed to act in the 1966 film Picture Mommy Dead,Duo Slated for 5 Pictures Martin, Betty. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] Jan 21, 1966: c6. but was let go when she collapsed during filming from nervous exhaustion.Hedy Lamarr Fired From Comeback Film: HEDY LAMARR Berman, Art. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] Feb 4, 1966: 3. She was replaced in the role of Jessica Flagmore Shelley by Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions,{{cite web|url=https://segulamag.com/en/articles/%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%95/|title=A Beautiful Mind|website=Segulamag.com|access-date=July 18, 2022}} which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink.

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During the late 1930s, Lamarr attended arms deals with her then-husband, arms dealer Fritz Mandl, "possibly to improve his chances of making a sale".{{cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=Alun |date=June 1999 |title=Hedy Lamarr, Movie Star (and Inventor of torpedo-control |url= https://navyhistory.au/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-and-inventor-of-torpedo-control/|journal=Naval Historical Review |volume=June 1999|access-date=December 9, 2023}} From the meetings, she learned that navies needed "a way to guide a torpedo as it raced through the water." Radio control had been proposed. However, an enemy might be able to jam such a torpedo's guidance system and set it off course.{{cite episode |title=Hedy Lamarr – actor, inventor, amateur engineer|series=The Science Show |series-link=Radio_National#Science |network=Radio National |url=http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/07/ssw_20140705_1218.mp3#t=420 |format=MP3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705081920/http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/07/ssw_20140705_1218.mp3#t=420 |url-status=live |archive-date=July 5, 2014 |minutes=7 |airdate=July 5, 2014}}

When later discussing this with a new friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, her idea to prevent jamming by frequency hopping met Antheil's previous work in music. In that earlier work, Antheil attempted synchronizing note-hopping in the avant-garde piece written as a score for the film Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) that involved multiple synchronized player pianos. Antheil's idea in the piece was to synchronize the start time of identical player pianos with identical player piano rolls, so the pianos would play in time with one another. Together, they realized that radio frequencies could be changed similarly, using the same kind of mechanism, but miniaturized.

Based on the strength of the initial submission of their ideas to the National Inventors Council (NIC) in late December 1940, in early 1941 the NIC introduced Antheil to Samuel Stuart Mackeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, to consult on the electrical systems.{{sfn|Rhodes|2012|p=169}} Lamarr hired the legal firm of Lyon & Lyon to draft the application for the patent{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGakEbXxp4Y |title=Hedy Lamarr: Actress and inventor |author=ABC news}} 4 minutes{{cite web|title=Hedy Lamarr: Movie star, inventor of WiFi|date=April 20, 2012 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-inventor-of-wifi/|publisher=CBS News|access-date=April 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409132313/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-inventor-of-wifi/|archive-date=April 9, 2016|url-status=live}} which was granted as {{US Patent|2,292,387}} on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.{{cite web|last1=USPTO|title=Patent 2,292,387 Full Text|url=http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=02292387&IDKey=F01524164BEB&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fpatimg.htm|website=United States Patent and Trademark Office|publisher=USPTO|access-date=May 11, 2016|archive-date=January 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110223615/https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=02292387&IDKey=F01524164BEB&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fpatimg.htm|url-status=dead}} The invention was proposed to the Navy, who rejected it on the basis that it would be too large to fit in a torpedo,Hans-Joachim Braun, [https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/hedy-lamarr-radio-controlled-torpedo "Hedy Lamarr, Radio-Controlled Torpedo"], Invention and Technology, Winter 2020, Volume 26, Issue 1. Retrieved 26 March 2024. and Lamarr and Antheil, shunned by the Navy, pursued their invention no further. It was suggested that Lamarr invest her time and attention to selling war bonds since she was a celebrity.{{Cite journal |last=Blackburn |first=Renée |date=2017-12-22 |title=The secret life of Hedy Lamarr Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Alexandra Dean, director Reframed Pictures, 2017 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aar4304 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=358 |issue=6370 |pages=1546 |doi=10.1126/science.aar4304 |s2cid=44138813 |issn=0036-8075}}

Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 38 on April 10, 1953. Her autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, was published in 1966. She said on TV that it was not written by her, and much of it was fictional.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muYlAsUDibE |title=Hedy Lamarr, 1969 TV Interview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003025034/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muYlAsUDibE |archive-date=October 3, 2017}} on The Merv Griffin Show with Woody Allen, 1969 Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many details were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.{{cite news|title=Hedy Lamarr Loses Fight to Stop Autobiography|newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News|page=12|date=September 27, 1966|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19660927&id=73ohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SooFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4084,4060061|via=Google Newspapers}}"Hedy Lamarr Loses Suit to Halt Book", The New York Times, September 27, 1966, p. 74. Lamarr, in turn, was sued by Gene Ringgold, who asserted that the book plagiarized material from an article he had written in 1965 for Screen Facts magazine."Lamarr Autobiography Prompts Plagiarism Suit", The New York Times, February 7, 1967, p. 18.

In the late 1950s, along with former husband W. Howard Lee, Lamarr designed and developed the Villa LaMarr ski resort in Aspen, Colorado.[https://issuu.com/theaspentimes/docs/atw322/14 Hedy Lamarr in 1950s Aspen], The Aspen Times Weekly (March 22, 2012)[https://books.google.com/books?id=ypCyObpZaGoC&dq=Villa+Lamarr+aspen&pg=PA194 Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film] (2010), pg. 194

In 1966, Lamarr was arrested in Los Angeles for shoplifting. The charges were eventually dropped. In 1991, she was arrested on the same charge in Orlando, Florida, this time for stealing $21.48 worth of laxatives and eye drops.[http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/lifestyles/google-doodle-the-day-who-hedy-lamarr/zAmPTxcmrlWo2HwlR1iK5K/ "Google Doodle of the day: Who is Hedy Lamarr?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419104505/http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/lifestyles/google-doodle-the-day-who-hedy-lamarr/zAmPTxcmrlWo2HwlR1iK5K/ |date=April 19, 2017}}, Palm Beach Post, November 9, 2015.[https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/02/Hedy-Lamarr-accused-of-shoplifting/7192681105600/ Hedy Lamarr accused of shoplifting from Orlando drugstore], UPI, Aug. 2, 1991 She pleaded no contest to avoid a court appearance, and the charges were dropped in return for her promise to refrain from breaking any laws for a year.{{cite web|last=Salamone |first=Debbie |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/10/24/hedy-lamarr-wont-face-theft-charges-if-she-stays-in-line/ |title=Hedy Lamarr Won't Face Theft Charges If She Stays In Line |date=October 24, 1991 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324100819/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-10-24/news/9110240390_1_hedy-lamarr-tabscott-stealing |archive-date=March 24, 2012 |publisher=Orlando Sentinel |url-status=live |access-date=June 10, 2010}}

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. 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. Brooks said he was flattered. The 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".Interview: Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles (DVD). Burbank, California: Warner Brothers Pictures/Warner Home Video, 2004; {{ISBN|0-7907-5735-4}}.{{sfn|Barton|2010|p=220}} In 1981, with her eyesight failing, Lamarr retreated from public life and settled in Miami Beach, Florida.

A large Corel-drawn image of Lamarr won CorelDRAW's yearly software suite cover design contest in 1996. For several years, beginning in 1997, it was featured on boxes of the software suite. Lamarr sued the company for using her image without her permission. Corel countered that she did not own rights to the image. The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in 1998.{{Cite news|url=http://hedylamarr.at/news1e.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706092646/http://hedylamarr.at/news1e.html|date=April 7, 1998|title=Hedy Lamarr Sues Corel|archive-date=July 6, 2011}}{{Cite news|work=Wired News|date=November 30, 1998|title=Corel Caves to Actress Hedy Lamarr|url=https://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/11/16544|last=Sprenger|first=Polly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615055123/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/11/16544|archive-date=June 15, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Boulevard{{cite web|publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce|title=Hedy Lamarr|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/hedy-lamarr|access-date=November 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111142742/http://www.walkoffame.com/hedy-lamarr|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=live}}{{cite web|publisher=Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Project|title=Hedy Lamarr|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/hedy-lamarr|access-date=November 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115011241/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/hedy-lamarr/|archive-date=November 15, 2013|url-status=live}} adjacent to Vine Street where the walk is centered.

Lamarr became estranged from her older 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/10/30/court-to-weigh-plea-of-lamarrs-estranged-son/|title=Court To Weigh Plea of Lamarr's Estranged Son|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 30, 2000 |access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217211817/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2000-10-30/news/0010300415_1_lamarr-loder-hedy|archive-date=February 17, 2016|url-status=live}} He eventually settled for US$50,000.{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2001/01/26/hedy-lamarrs-adopted-son-trades-claim-to-estate-for-50000/|title=Hedy Lamarr's Adopted Son Trades Claim To Estate For $50,000|date=January 26, 2001 |access-date=April 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113043350/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2001-01-26/news/0101260305_1_loder-lamarr-hedy|archive-date=November 13, 2016|url-status=live}}

In the last decades of her life, the telephone became Lamarr's only means of communication with the outside world, even with her children and close friends. She often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she spent hardly any time with anyone in person in her final years.{{Cite web |title=Hedy Lamarr: The Hollywood starlet who helped invent WiFi |url=https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-life-of-hedy-lamarr-historys-forgotten-hollywood-genius#:~:text=Her%20remaining%20years%20were%20spent%20in%20seclusion,%20often%20only%20communicating%20with%20those%20on%20the%20outside,%20including%20her%20family%20and%20children,%20via%20the%20telephone |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Sky HISTORY TV channel |language=en}}{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

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Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida,{{Cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/01/20/hedy-lamar-1913-2000/ |title=Hedy Lamar: 1913–2000 |last=Moore |first=Roger |date=January 20, 2000 |work=Orlando Sentinel |access-date=April 27, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115015514/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2000-01-20/news/0001200121_1_hedy-lamarr-casselberry-white-cargo |archive-date=November 15, 2017 |url-status=live }} on January 19, 2000, of heart disease, aged 85. Her son Anthony Loder spread part of her ashes in Austria's Vienna Woods in accordance with her last wishes.

In 2014, a memorial to Lamarr was unveiled in Vienna's Central Cemetery.{{cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|title=Memorial to Hollywood pin-up|work=thelocal.at|date=November 7, 2014|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721024351/http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|archive-date=July 21, 2015|url-status=live}} The remainder of her ashes were buried there.{{Cite web|last=Presse-Service|date=November 7, 2014|title=Archivmeldung: Hedy Lamarr erhält Ehrengrab der Stadt Wien|url=https://www.wien.gv.at/presse/2014/11/07/hedy-lamarr-erhaelt-ehrengrab-der-stadt-wien|access-date=2021-11-15|website=Presseservice der Stadt Wien|language=de}}{{Cite web|title=Verstorbenensuche Detail – Friedhöfe Wien – Friedhöfe Wien|url=http://www.friedhoefewien.at/verstorbenensuche-detail?fname=Hedwig+Eva+Maria+Kiesler&id=0A3A7LC328&initialId=0A3A7LC328&fdate=2014-11-07&c=046&hist=false|access-date=2021-11-15|website=friedhoefewien.at|language=de-DE}}

On January 7, 1939, Hedy Lamarr was selected the "most promising new actress" of 1938 in a poll of Philadelphia film fans conducted by Elsie Finn, the Philadelphia Record film critic.{{cite journal|title=Philly's Best|journal=Boxoffice|date=January 7, 1939|page=30-C|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficejanmar134unse#page/n33/mode/2up/search/hedy+lamarr+most+promising+new+actress}}

On January 26, 1939, Lamar was chosen the "ideal type" of woman in a poll of both male and female students conducted by the Pomona College newspaper.{{cite news |title=Hedy Lamarr Chosen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kE0bAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+poll&pg=PA33&article_id=4465,7535143 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=January 26, 1939 |page=15}}

On May 9, 1939, Lamarr was named the "most beautiful actress" in "a secret poll of 30 Hollywood correspondents" conducted by the American magazine Look.{{cite news |title=BETTE DAVIS AND CLARK GABLE BEST LIKED BY WRITERS |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiQfAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+voted&pg=PA25&article_id=5291,4950744 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=Victoria Daily Advocate |date=May 9, 1939 |page=3}}

On August 30, 1940, Lamarr won "top honors for facial features" in a poll of 400 members of the California Models Association.{{cite news |title=Models Find Lack of Perfect Girls |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeJXAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+honors&pg=PA38&article_id=5251,6757312 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=August 30, 1940 |page=12}}

In December 1943, makeup expert Max Factor, Jr. included Lamarr among the ten glamorous Hollywood actresses with the most appealing voices.{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Erskine |title=Who'll Win Oscars This Year? All Hollywood Is Speculating! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilcbAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+award&pg=PA28&article_id=4236,4717646 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=December 26, 1943 |page=28}}

In 1951, British moviegoers voted Lamarr the year's 10th best actress, for her performance in Samson and Delilah.{{cite news|title=Anna Neagle's Film Award|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27035762?searchTerm=Hedy%20Lamarr%20award&searchLimits=|access-date=February 24, 2018|work=The Mercury|issue=May 10, 1951}}

In 1960, Lamarr was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry.{{Cite web|date=October 25, 2019|title=Hedy Lamarr|url=https://walkoffame.com/hedy-lamarr/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=Hollywood Walk of Fame|language=en-US}}

In 1997, Lamarr and George Antheil were jointly honored with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award{{cite press release|title=Movie Legend Hedy Lamarr to be Given Special Award at EFF's Sixth Annual Pioneer Awards|publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=March 11, 1997|url=http://w2.eff.org/awards/pioneer/1997.php|access-date=February 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016063043/http://w2.eff.org/awards/pioneer/1997.php|archive-date=October 16, 2007}} and Lamarr also was the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's BULBIE Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, known as the "Oscars of inventing".{{cite web |title=1940's Film Goddess Hedy Lamarr Responsible For Pioneering Spread Spectrum |website=INVENTION CONVENTION ® – Gateway to the World of Inventing |url=http://inventionconvention.com/americasinventor/dec97issue/section2.html |access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625011848/http://www.inventionconvention.com/americasinventor/dec97issue/section2.html |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp|title=Hedy Lamarr: Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology|website=women-inventors.com|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112075258/http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp|archive-date=November 12, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Dolor |first=Danny |title=The other side of Hedy Lamarr |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2018/03/11/1795482/other-side-hedy-lamarr |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Philstar.com}} given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.{{cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|title=Honorary grave for Hollywood pin-up|date=November 7, 2014|access-date=November 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110175931/http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|archive-date=November 10, 2014|url-status=live}} The following year, Lamarr's native Austria awarded her the Viktor Kaplan Medal of the Austrian Association of Patent Holders and Inventors.{{Citation | last = Peterson | first = Barbara Bennett | contribution = Lamarr, Hedy | title = American National Biography | date = April 2001}}

In 2006, the Hedy-Lamarr-Weg was founded in Vienna Meidling (12th District), named after the actress.

In 2013, the IQOQI installed a quantum telescope on the roof of the University of Vienna, which they named after her in 2014.{{Cite web |title=Auf den Spuren einer Hollywood-Diva |trans-title=In the footsteps of a Hollywood diva |language=de |url=https://www.pressreader.com/austria/kleine-zeitung-steiermark/20210622/281672552905172 |access-date=2021-11-15 |via=PressReader}}

In 2014, Lamarr was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology.{{Cite news |url=http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=501|title=Inductee Detail {{!}} National Inventors Hall of Fame |work=National Inventors Hall of Fame |access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022910/http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=501 |archive-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=live}} The same year, Anthony Loder's request that the remaining ashes of his mother should be buried in an honorary grave of the city of Vienna was realized. On November 7, her urn was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Group 33 G, Tomb No. 80, not far from the centrally located presidential tomb.

On November 9, 2015, Google honored her on the 101st anniversary of her birth, and on her 109th on November 9, 2023 with a doodle.{{Cite web|date=November 9, 2015|title=Hedy Lamarr: Ein Kino-Orgasmus, eine bahnbrechende Erfindung, 101. Geburtstag|url=https://www.giga.de/webapps/google-suche/news/hedy-lamarr-die-schoenste-frau-der-welt-hat-geburtstag/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=GIGA|language=de}}

On August 27, 2019, an asteroid was named after her: 32730 Lamarr.{{Cite web|title=IAU Minor Planet Center|url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=32730|access-date=2021-11-15|website=minorplanetcenter.net}}{{Cite web|title=Small-Body Database Lookup|url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=32730|access-date=2021-11-15|website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov}}

On August 6, 2023 Star Trek: Prodigy showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman debuted the first five minutes of footage from season two, showing the new Lamarr-class USS Voyager-A, in tribute to her.{{Cite web|title=First Look Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 2, Episode 1|url=https://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-first-look|access-date=2024-04-07|website=startrek.com}}

Lamarr was married and divorced six times and had three children:

1. Friedrich Mandl (married 1933–1937), chairman of the Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik{{cite web|last=Ivanis|first=Daniel J|title=The stars come out: Recruiting ad featuring Hedy Lamarr creates 'buzz't|work=Boeing Frontiers|url=http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2003/november/i_nan.html|access-date=February 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029193937/http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2003/november/i_nan.html|archive-date=October 29, 2012|url-status=live}}
2. Gene Markey (married 1939–1941), screenwriter and producer. She adopted a boy (however this was later contested by the child, see below) during her marriage with Markey. Lamarr became estranged from the boy when he was 12 years old, their relationship ended abruptly, they did not speak again for almost 50 years, and Lamarr left him out of her will. Lamarr and Markey lived at 2727 Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills, California during their marriage, at a place called Hedgerow Farm. The home still exists.1940 US Census via Ancestry.com
3. John Loder (married 1943–1947), actor. The two had a daughter, Denise, who married Larry Colton, a writer and former baseball player, and a son, Anthony, who worked for illustrator James McMullan.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKsAnJOGgCo|title=To Tell The Truth – Hedy Lamarr + Anthony Loder + Denise Loder Deluca|via=YouTube|access-date=May 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606014726/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKsAnJOGgCo|archive-date=June 6, 2014|url-status=live}} Anthony Loder was featured in the 2004 documentary film Calling Hedy Lamarr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mischief-films.com/sub2.php?ID=1&S=E|title=Calling Hedy Lamarr|publisher=Mischief Films|access-date=December 20, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205232850/http://www.mischief-films.com/sub2.php?ID=1&S=E|archive-date=December 5, 2007|url-status=live}}
4. Ernest "Teddy" Stauffer (married 1951–1952), nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader
5. W. Howard Lee (married 1953–1960), a Texas oilman (who later married film actress Gene Tierney)
6. Lewis J. Boies (married 1963–1965), Lamarr's divorce lawyer

Following her sixth and final divorce in 1965, Lamarr remained unmarried for the last 35 years of her life.

Throughout her life, Lamarr claimed that her first son, James Lamarr Loder, was not biologically related to her and was adopted during her marriage to Gene Markey.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/05/99258931.pdf "Hedy Lamarr Adopts Baby Boy"], nytimes.com; accessed June 3, 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/hedy-lamarr-9542252#secret-communications-system|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230105123/http://www.biography.com/people/hedy-lamarr-9542252|archive-date=December 30, 2011|title=Hedy Lamarr Biography}} However, years later, her son found documentation that he was the out-of-wedlock son of Lamarr and actor John Loder, whom she later married as her third husband.{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2001/02/05/hedy-news-lamarrs-son-not-adopted/|title=HEDY NEWS: LAMARR'S SON NOT ADOPTED|date=February 5, 2001|work=New York Post|access-date=June 9, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140042/https://nypost.com/2001/02/05/hedy-news-lamarrs-son-not-adopted/|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}} However, a later DNA test proved him not to be biologically related to either.{{Cite news|url= https://www.phoenixmag.co.uk/article/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story-unveils-a-scientific-innovator-and-feminist-ahead-of-her-time/|title= Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Unveils a Scientific Innovator and Feminist Ahead of Her Time|date=March 2017|work=Phoenix Magazine|access-date=March 7, 2024|language=en-US}}

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In the 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, Hedy Lamarr is mentioned by name in Chapter 37 when defense attorney Lieutenant Barney Greenwald confronts Lieutenant Tom Keefer at a party after Lieutenant Stephen Maryk's court-martial acquittal in the Caine mutiny.{{efn|"You’ll retire old and full of fat fitness reports. You’ll publish your novel proving that the Navy stinks, and you’ll make a million dollars and marry Hedy Lamarr. No letter of reprimand for you, just royalties on your novel."}}{{snd}}

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The Mel Brooks 1974 western parody Blazing Saddles features a villain, played by Harvey Korman, named "Hedley Lamarr". As a running gag, various characters mistakenly refer to him as "Hedy Lamarr" prompting him to testily reply "That's Hedley."

In the 1982 off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors and subsequent film adaptation (1986), Audrey II says to Seymour in the song "Feed Me", that he can get Seymour anything he wants including "A date with Hedy Lamarr."{{Citation|title=Alan Menken (Ft. Lee Wilkof & Ron Taylor) – Sudden Changes/ Feed Me (Git it)|url=https://genius.com/Alan-menken-sudden-changes-feed-me-git-it-lyrics|language=en|access-date=2018-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031091202/https://genius.com/Alan-menken-sudden-changes-feed-me-git-it-lyrics|archive-date=October 31, 2018|url-status=live}}

In the 2004 video game Half-Life 2, Dr. Kleiner's pet headcrab, Lamarr, is named after Hedy Lamarr.

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Her son, Anthony Loder, was featured in the 2004 documentary film Calling Hedy Lamarr, in which he played excerpts from tapes of her many telephone calls.

In 2008, an off-Broadway play, Frequency Hopping, features the lives of Lamarr and Antheil. The play was written and staged by Elyse Singer, and the script won a prize for best new play about science and technology from STAGE.{{cite web|url=http://www.hourglassgroup.org/frequency.html|publisher=Hourglass Group|title=Frequency Hopping|access-date=June 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521021452/http://www.hourglassgroup.org/frequency.html|archive-date=May 21, 2015|url-status=live}}

In the 2009 mockumentary The Chronoscope,{{Cite web |last=Legge |first=Andrew |year=2009 |title=The Chronoscope |url=https://vimeo.com/28839357 |access-date=November 10, 2022 |publisher=Fastnet Films}} written and directed by Andrew Legge, the fictional Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel is likely modeled after Hedy Lamarr. The film satirizes the extreme politics of the 1930s and tells the story of a fictionalized fascist group that steals a device invented by Keppel. This chronoscope can see the past and is used by the group to create propaganda films of their heroes from the past.

In 2010, Lamarr was selected out of 150 IT people to be featured in a short film launched by the British Computer Society on May 20.{{cite web|title=BCS launches celebrity film campaign to raise profile of the IT industry|url=http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/35614|publisher=BCS|access-date=October 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019180233/http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/35614|archive-date=October 19, 2014|url-status=live}}

Also during 2010, the New York Public Library exhibit Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library included a photo of a topless Lamarr ({{circa|1930}}) by Austrian-born American photographer Trude Fleischmann.{{cite web|title=Trude Fleischmann (American, 1895–1990): "Hedy Lamarr"|url=http://exhibitions.nypl.org/recollection/tl32.html|website=Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library|publisher=New York Public Library|access-date=November 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119110857/http://exhibitions.nypl.org/recollection/tl32.html|archive-date=November 19, 2015|url-status=live}}

In 2011, the story of Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread spectrum invention was explored in an episode of the Science Channel show Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a series that explores the darker side of scientific discovery and experimentation, which premiered on September 7.{{cite episode |title=Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains|series=Dark Matters: Twisted But True |network=Science Channel |season=2 |number=5 |airdate=September 7, 2011|url=http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/dark-matters-twisted-but-true/videos/poisonous-heroin-beauty-and-brains.htm |access-date=November 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114213628/http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/dark-matters-twisted-but-true/videos/poisonous-heroin-beauty-and-brains.htm|archive-date=November 14, 2013 |url-status=live}} Her work in improving wireless security was part of the premiere episode of the Discovery Channel show How We Invented the World.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/arts/television/how-we-invented-the-world-on-the-discovery-channel.html|title=On the Origins of Gadgets|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 18, 2013|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|access-date=December 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129152536/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/arts/television/how-we-invented-the-world-on-the-discovery-channel.html|archive-date=November 29, 2016|url-status=live}}

Also during 2011, Anne Hathaway revealed that she had learned that the original Catwoman was based on Lamarr, so she studied all of Lamarr's films and incorporated some of her breathing techniques into her portrayal of Catwoman in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.{{cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/29/dark-knight-rises-star-anne-hathaway-gotham-city-is-full-of-grace|title='Dark Knight Rises' star Anne Hathaway: 'Gotham City is full of grace'|date=December 29, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=June 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706161155/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/29/dark-knight-rises-star-anne-hathaway-gotham-city-is-full-of-grace/|archive-date=July 6, 2012|url-status=live}}

In 2015, on November 9, the 101st anniversary of Lamarr's birth, Google paid tribute to Hedy Lamarr's work in film and her contributions to scientific advancement with an animated Google Doodle.{{Cite web|title=Hedy Lamarr's 101st birthday|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/hedy-lamarrs-101st-birthday/|access-date=June 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610232402/https://www.google.com/doodles/hedy-lamarrs-101st-birthday|archive-date=June 10, 2017|url-status=live}}

In 2016, Lamarr was depicted in an off-Broadway play, HEDY! The Life and Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, a one-woman show written and performed by Heather Massie.[http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/HEDY-The-Life-Inventions-of-Hedy-Lamarr-Extended-by-Popular-Demand-20161028 'HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr' Extended by Popular Demand] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131192142/http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/HEDY-The-Life-Inventions-of-Hedy-Lamarr-Extended-by-Popular-Demand-20161028 |date=January 31, 2017 }}, broadwayworld.com, October 28, 2016.C. E. Gerber, [http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Entertainment/cat_index_new_york_performances/hedy-the-life-and-inventions-of-hedy-lamarr-review.php "HEDY! : The Life and Inventions of Hedy Lamarr Review – Simple and Effective"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000745/http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Entertainment/cat_index_new_york_performances/hedy-the-life-and-inventions-of-hedy-lamarr-review.php |date=February 2, 2017 }}, lasplash.com, November 14, 2016.

Also in 2016, the off-Broadway, one-actor show Stand Still and Look Stupid: The Life Story of Hedy Lamarr, starring Emily Ebertz and written by Mike Broemmel, went into production.{{cite web|url=https://hedylamarr.info/|title=Stand Still & look Stupid – A play in three acts|website=The Life Story of Hedy Lamarr|access-date=April 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314012950/https://hedylamarr.info/|archive-date=March 14, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web |first=Janet |last=Varnum |title=STAND STILL AND LOOK STUPID |website=The Ark Magazine |date=March 5, 2018 |url=https://arkmagazine.net/stand-still-look-stupid/ |access-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127155348/https://arkmagazine.net/stand-still-look-stupid/ |url-status=dead }}

Also during 2016, Whitney Frost, a character in the TV show Agent Carter was inspired by Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall.{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/agent-carter-season-2/ |title=Exclusive: 'Marvel's Agent Carter' Producers on Season Two Villain, Hollywood Setting, and Action |last=Topel |first=Fred |publisher=/Film |date=August 6, 2015 |access-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808222943/http://www.slashfilm.com/agent-carter-season-2 |archive-date=August 8, 2015 |url-status=live }}

In 2017, actress Celia Massingham portrayed Lamarr on The CW television series Legends of Tomorrow in the sixth episode of the third season, titled "Helen Hunt". The episode is set in 1937 Hollywoodland. The episode aired on November 14, 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6464558/ |title="DC's Legends of Tomorrow" Helen Hunt (TV Episode 2017) – IMDb |publisher=IMDb |date=November 14, 2017 |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616182304/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6464558/ |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |url-status=live }}

Also during 2017, a documentary about Lamarr's career as an actress and later as an inventor, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary was written and directed by Alexandra Dean and produced by Susan Sarandon;{{cite news |last1=Thorpe |first1=Vanessa |date=November 12, 2017 |title=Film tells how Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr helped to invent wifi |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/12/hedy-lamarr-film-documentary-wifi-bluetooth-susan-sarandon |url-status=live |access-date=November 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112003509/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/12/hedy-lamarr-film-documentary-wifi-bluetooth-susan-sarandon |archive-date=November 12, 2017}}[http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2889/bombshell-interview-with-richard-rhodes-on-hedy-lamarr "Bombshell: Interview with Richard Rhodes on Hedy Lamarr"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419004007/http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2889/bombshell-interview-with-richard-rhodes-on-hedy-lamarr |date=April 19, 2017 }}, Sloan Science and Film, April 18, 2017. it was released in theaters on November 24, 2017, and aired on PBS American Masters in May 2018.

In 2018, actress Alyssa Sutherland portrayed Lamarr on the NBC television series Timeless in the third episode of the second season, titled "Hollywoodland". The episode aired March 25, 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6885524/ |title="Timeless" Hollywoodland (TV Episode 2018) – IMDb |publisher=IMDb |date=March 25, 2018 |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402163913/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6885524/ |archive-date=April 2, 2018 |url-status=live }}

In 2019, actor and musician Johnny Depp composed a song called "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" with Tommy Henriksen. It was included on Depp and Jeff Beck's 2022 album 18.{{cite web |last=Colothan |first=Scott |date=May 30, 2022 |title=Johnny Depp performs four songs with Jeff Beck at Sheffield concert – watch |url=https://planetradio.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/johnny-depp-jeff-beck-sheffield/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=Planet Rock}}

Also in 2019, The Only Woman in the Room, a novel based on Hedy Lamarr's life by Marie Benedict, was published by Sourcebooks Landmark. The book is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=The Only Woman in the Room{{!}}Paperback |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-only-woman-in-the-room-marie-benedict/1128189920?ean=9781492666899 |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=Barnes & Noble |language=en}} In 2019, it received a space in Library Reads's Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |title=Marie Benedict |url=https://libraryreads.org/hof/marie-benedict |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=LibraryReads |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019163933/https://libraryreads.org/hof/marie-benedict |url-status=dead }}

In 2021, Lamarr was mentioned in the first episode of the Marvel's What If...?.{{Citation|title="What If...?" What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? (TV Episode 2021) – IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10670784/trivia|access-date=2021-11-21}} The episode aired on August 11, 2021.

In May 2023, a dance production called Hedy Lamarr: An American Muse was made in her honor by Linze Rickles McRae. She was accompanied by her daughter, Azalea McRae, with whom she performed it, alongside her students at her dancing school, Downtown Dance Conservatory in Gadsden, AL.{{Cite web|date=May 10, 2023|title=Downtown Dance Pays Tribute to Hedy Lamarr|url= https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2023/05/10/downtown-dance-conservatory-pays-tribute-to-hedy-lamarr/70198825007/}}

In July 2024, the principal setting of the second season of the Netflix/Nickelodeon/Paramount television series Star Trek Prodigy is the science vessel USS Voyager, NCC-74656-A, a Starship of the Lamarr class, classified in honor of Lamarr's scientific contributions.{{Cite web|date=August 7, 2023|title=Voyager-A: Every Change Confirmed To Star Trek's Original|website=Screen Rant |url= https://screenrant.com/voyager-a-star-trek-prodigy-changes/}}

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• {{cite book|last=Barton |first=Ruth |title=Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film |publisher=University of Kentucky Press |location=Lexington |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8131-3654-7 }}
• {{cite book|last=Benedict |first=Marie |title=The Only Woman in the Room |publisher=Source Books Landmark |year=2019 |isbn= 978-1492666899 }}
• {{cite book|last=Lamarr |first=Hedy |title=Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman |publisher=Bartholomew House |location=New York |year=1966 |asin=B0007DMMN8 }}
• {{cite book|last=Rhodes |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Rhodes |title=Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-307-74295-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8o0NnwEACAAJ }}
• {{cite book|last=Shearer |first=Stephen Michael |title=Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-312-55098-1 }}
• {{cite book|last=Young |first=Christopher |title=The Films of Hedy Lamarr |publisher=Citadel Press |location=New York |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-8065-0579-4 }}

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