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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. x+ 281 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photos. Biography of Hollywood Golden Age actress and inventor, Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000). Born in Austria, she began her film career in Czecholslovakia under her real name, Hedwig Kiesler, most notably with the female leading in the controversial, award winning film "Ecstacy" (1933), thought to be the first non-pornographic film to depict sexual intercourse and female orgasm. after fleeing form her first husband, Hedy went to Paris and london, met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a contact and she moved to America. Her performance in "Algiers" (1938) as well as her breathtaking beauty made her a star. Hecy, however, was far more than just a pretty face or a movie star---at the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil invented a radio guidance system with frequncy-hopping ability for Allied torpedoes.…