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    MY HISTORY HERO

    Dec 27, 2019 2 minutes

    Hedy Lamarr

    1914–2000

    I’ve been a big fan of her films – Hollywood classics like Cecil B DeMille’s biblical romantic drama (1949), which I think is absolutely hilarious – ever since my teens. I quite liked her racy personal life and the fact that she was very much her ownwhich I saw a couple of years ago.

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