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aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts) Wed Oct 30, 2013, 03:58 PM Oct 2013

Experiment Perrilous on TCM right now

directed by the great Jacques Tourneur (Out Of The Past, Cat People). The film reminds me of Gaslight with its atmospheric evil foreboding about a husband who's trying to make his beautiful young wife seem insane. Hedy Lamarr is incredible. It's hard for me to imagine a more beautiful face and I see why she was considered one of Hollywood's greatest beauties.

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Experiment Perrilous on TCM right now (Original Post) aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2013 OP

A lot of brains came with that beauty. Graybeard Oct 2013 #1

Graybeard

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1. A lot of brains came with that beauty.

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Wed Oct 30, 2013, 06:08 PM

Oct 2013

Hedy La Marr was a fine actress, a great beauty and an accomplished inventor.

During WWII she invented a system of "frequency hopping" that prevented the jamming of signals to torpedoes fired at their targets. It was hailed as a breakthrough that helped win the war.

Basics of her technology are used to this day in Bluetooth and other systems.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
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