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    Hedy Lamarr FILM STAR AND INVENTOR

    Mar 14, 2018 3 minutes
    TEXT - DANIEL DYLAN WRAY

    Whenever Hedy Lamarr used to come home after a long day on set, she’d stay up all night. Back in the 1940s, actors would retire to bed with a studioissued sleeping pill – knocking them out before an ‘upper’ brought them back around. But Hedy Lamarr was different. She’d hover over her drafting table by lamplight, toying with test tubes or filling notebooks with ideas. “Any girl can be glamorous,” Hedy once said. “All you have to do is stand still

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