# I think Hedy Lamarr is dead . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914 "2000-01-19T20:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/21 "2000-01-20T15:11:00Z")
The pic above says it all - Hollywood glamour personified. The Golden Agers are down by one again. BTW, Padeye, you probably just heard wrong, the way it works is the larger the woman’s bust, the dumber the men are. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/22 "2000-01-20T15:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Eve: > Hedy’s “autobiography” was as big a piece of fiction as “Mommie Dearest” (don’t get me started on THAT!). Hedy probably gave a few interviews and an OK to the ghost-writer, then sued when she saw what he came up with under her name. The lady was rather sue-happy, but that book really was a piece of crap. Thank you. I always had it as a project in the back of my mind to one day read the whole book, but now I can lay that idea to rest. ---
**Author:** ![brooklyn44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/51bf81/32.png) [@brooklyn44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brooklyn44)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/23 "2000-01-20T16:17:00Z")
Yankee Blue, Re: bust sizes. Right on! renee 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/24 "2000-01-20T16:27:00Z")
Poor Hedy must be spinning in her grave (or spinning in the morgue, really). The L.A. Times quotes extensively from her “autobiography” in their obit, despite the fact that it’s been long discredited! You’d think the L.A. Times would have better fact checkers, or at least not be quite so lazy . . . Just proves again, Never Believe Anything. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/25 "2000-01-20T19:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Eve: > Poor Hedy must be spinning in her grave (or spinning in the morgue, really). The L.A. Times quotes extensively from her “autobiography” in their obit, despite the fact that it’s been long discredited! Eve, are you talking about this article? [http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000120/t000006232.html](http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000120/t000006232.html) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/26 "2000-01-20T19:44:00Z")
Yeah—what a badly researched, piece-of-crap obit! And it’ll wind up in libraries, etc., and get used as research material on her, now . . . ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/27 "2000-01-20T19:55:00Z")
Well, I notice that the biography doesn’t even mention that she later claimed the “autobiography” was inaccurate. I hope later on in the week they’ll have a better article. You would think that the LA Times would have better obituaries prepared for stars of the caliber of Hedy. I like Hedda Hopper’s description of her as “orchidaceous.” I might use that myself some day. Eve, why don’t you write a letter to the editor? You would have the credentials to make them realize the errors of their ways. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/28 "2000-01-20T20:11:00Z")
One of the disadvantages of my profession is I can’t afford to make enemies of editors, so I have to keep my mouth shut a lot. As you can imagine, I am NOT good at that. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/29 "2000-01-20T20:20:00Z")
Why not get in touch with the obit-writer’s editor, point out the guy’s inadequacies, have him bounced out on his ass and take over his job? I hear you meet the NICEST stiffs out in L.A… * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/30 "2000-01-20T20:21:00Z")
Narile said: > [@](#): > > Only one of the golden age silver screen diva’s left. > Kathrine Hepburn. > > (Personally, I almost feel that at ninety-some-odd years, Mrs. Hepburn is still more striking and graceful than 97% of todays so-called actresses.) Absolutely true. I hope that Eve will consider her for a biography sometime soon…preferably while she’s still around to interview! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914/31 "2000-01-20T21:04:00Z")
Sad to say, Kate hasn’t “been around” in about five years. The wheel’s spinning but the hamster’s not home, so to speak. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-hedy-lamarr-is-dead/12914.md?page=1)