A Beautiful Mind ......

[Anbarandy]

......... and unrivaled beauty.

Hedy Lamarr, actress and the ingenious, pioneering inventor who planted and patented a seed that would blossom into some of today’s most ubiquitous technology, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, cordless phones and cell phones.

 

[Insidious Von]

I remember her best from Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature.

That's Hedley.

 

[Anbarandy]

 

[Problem_child]

I guess Hedy Lamarr was a prime example of someone who was blessed with both outer and inner beauty , and a fitting title for this thread ..... always had known her to be an exceptionally beautiful woman and then some years ago when I happened to stumble on her biography I also found out that she had a brilliant mind .... she may not have invented what some people claim but she definitely had some genius in her and contributed to that technology... she lived a fascinating life...

 

[Darts]

I guess Hedy Lamarr was a prime example of someone who was blessed with both outer and inner beauty , and a fitting title for this thread ..... always had known her to be an exceptionally beautiful woman and then some years ago when I happened to stumble on her biography I also found out that she had a brilliant mind .... she may not have invented what some people claim but she definitely had some genius in her and contributed to that technology... she lived a fascinating life...

This is her most famous pic.

 

[Darts]

When I first saw the title of the thread, I thought it referred to this movie.

 

[IM469]

I'm am turned on by women who just dress like an intellectual ...

I never get far enough in the fantasy to discuss intellectual topics anyway.

 

[Darts]

I find intelligent women attractive. Met many when I was at McGill. I still have the Playboy spread on Mensa women. Here is a pic of some McGill students having fun while naked. I think they were playing touch football before the pic was taken.

 

[eddie kerr]

This is her most famous pic.
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I can't believe that she was married and divorced 6 times. She must have had more than a brilliant mind.

 

[Darts]

I can't believe that she was married and divorced 6 times. She must have had more than a brilliant mind.

"She was married eight times to seven men,"
Guess who?

 

[y2kmark]

I can't believe that she was married and divorced 6 times. She must have had more than a brilliant mind.

Of course, just watch a few of the movies she starred in. The look that provides one a boner...

 

[Insidious Von]

I read up on her, some of it is typical. She wasn't taken seriously by the scientific community but she had a somewhat slightly irrelevant benefactor who believed in her: Howard Hughes. The co-creator of frequency spread hopping wasn't even a scientist, George Anthiel was a piano player. The technology was developed using a player piano.

Her films are mainly B list except for Cecil B DeMille's, Samson and Delilah which was a massive box-office draw.

 

[Insidious Von]

When Mel Brooks made Blazing Saddles, Harvey Korman though it would make a great running gag to use her name. He asked permission, co-writer Richard Pryor didn't know who she was.

 

[Darts]

She wasn't taken seriously by the scientific community but she had a somewhat slightly irrelevant benefactor who believed in her: Howard Hughes.

Wow, Howard Hughes. He was somewhat eccentric. I think he also invented the biggest plane ever at that time. I think it helps to be eccentric for a scientist, they think outside the box.

 

[lessjamie7]

This is her most famous pic.
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$ 200 for the hour.

LJ

 

[Darts]

$ 200 for the hour.

LOL! You would raise your bid if you saw the full head to toe frontal pic.

 

[eddie kerr]

Wow, Howard Hughes. He was somewhat eccentric. I think he also invented the biggest plane ever at that time. I think it helps to be eccentric for a scientist, they think outside the box.
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Yes, he only cut his hair and nails once a year, became a totally obsessive clean freak, owned half of Las Vegas and screwed most of all the beautiful actresses in hollywood.

 

[Darts]

Yes, he only cut his hair and nails once a year, became a totally obsessive clean freak, owned half of Las Vegas and screwed most of all the beautiful actresses in hollywood.

He was also one of the richest Americans at the time. Inherited the wealth from dad who invented some kind oil drill. A lot of women find wealth attractive in a man. Based on photos I've seen, he was actually quite handsome as a young man.

 

[Insidious Von]

Howard Hughes didn't rest on his father's inheritance. He was the Elon Musk of his day. When the technology was pitched to him, he bought all the equipment they would need to make it a reality - peanuts for him. The lot where the technology was developed belonged to another obscure American: John F Kennedy.

Zero Mostel (The Producers) cameo.

 

[Darts]

Howard Hughes didn't rest on his father's inheritance. He was the Elon Musk of his day. When the technology was pitched to him, he bought all the equipment they would need to make it a reality - peanuts for him. The lot where the technology was developed belonged to another obscure American: John F Kennedy.

Many years ago I bought a book about wealthy Americans which I lent to a friend and it has been MIA since. It traced the source of wealth from 1700's to about the 1960's.

At that time the Duponts and Rockefeller were probably the wealthiest families. Joe Kennedy made a ton of money buying land in mid-town Manhattan in 1942 when it appeared that the U.S. would lose the war. Jean Paul Getty probably the wealthiest individual.

Howard Hughes the most interesting and weird.

Howard Hughes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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