Unfortunately, she still didn’t score well with test audiences even under her new name of ‘Tammy Jo Stalin’.
Not even when they put her in that beach party movie with Patty Hitler.
My favorite 1940s Paramount starlet name was Vivian Blake, who both romanced Don Ameche and ran a Jamaican drug ring: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/world/americas/26blake.html?scp=10&sq=drug+crime+obituary&st=nyt
She could never do a take quick enough; she was always stalin.
One of the local columnists grew to know her well in the last couple of years, and wrote a column about their last conversation. (Disclaimer: I work for the paper.)
Sure, you’re brave enough to say this openly now. But back in 1950 you’d have followed the party line just like everyone else and have completed Stalin on his shapely figure.
Trailer for documentary Svetlana About Svetlana.
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Also, Sean Connery beat on Stompanato for a while after relieving the mook of the firearm he’d pulled on the set of Another Time, Another Place; the fact Sean Connery is still alive proves either the mob didn’t like Stompanato much, either, or that they’re afraid of Sean Connery.
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That is one of the most badass stories about any movie star ever.
Bucky’s fine. His career as a Catskills comic never panned out, though.
Until he died and you’d have to fawn over the KGB (Kruschev’s Great Bod).
Which reminds (true story) me of a call I got ages ago from my mother, telling me that someone found Joan Bennett strangled in her cellar. Turned out to be Jon-Benet.
Though you never saw Joan Bennett and Jon-Benet together.
Or out.
I has me doubts about that tale . . .
Bucky is Hitler’s nephew? Does Captain America know this?
Here’s the actual patent. Hedy Keisler Markey was her name when she was married to Gene Markey at the time.
It’s Hedle…
Oh, my bad.
Oh, I know her name is on the patent: but my theory is the inventor met her at a party one night, they chatted, he decided it would be totally super-cool to have a big movie star on the patent with him . . . mostly because of the fact that neither before nor after the patent did Hedy Lamarr ever exhibit any scientific interest or knowledge at all. Call me cynical.
Now, Justine Johnstone–*there’s *an actress with scientific cred!
I’d once considered posting a thread on the topic of Hedy Lammar, inventor, with the same skepticism as Eve’s.
Her co-invenor was neighbor George Antheil, who composed avante-garde operas, then switched to lucrative but dull, nondescript move scores.
The concept wasn’t that brainy: why not adjust the path of a launched torpedo with radio instructions? Because the enemy could jam the instructions, just like a bigger radio station can drown out the signal from a smaller station. Answer: have the torpedo and the launcher switch radio frequencies faster than the defender can find and jam them.
There’s a new book out called Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World. I heard an interview with the author on NPR and he said her interest was much deeper the one patent. I’m not sure what evidence he has, but the book may be interesting.
It seems most of her inventions didn’t make it off the prototype stage, but it increases the likelihood that her involvement in the frequency hopping technique which was patented was more than just nominal.
Enjoy,
Steven