Screen legend Hedy Lamarr arrested for shoplifting!

OP, you forgot to write "BEARKING!"

It’s Hedley!

^ She sued Mel Brooks over that joke, settled out of court.

While living in LA, she made at least two allegations of rape against workmen who came to her mansion for various jobs to do. They said the sex was consensual and she was the aggressor. Charges were dismissed.

A few years later she moved to Orlando, Florida, and was arrested for shoplifting at a drugstore.

The lady had problems dealing with age.

She wound up in Orlando pinching laxatives from Eckerds.

A nympo and a klepto whew knew?

She also sued the publisher of her steamy autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, claiming they made up the salacious parts of the book. She lost the case.

How can Helen McGarry have been a "busybody" when she was just doing her job as the store detective? That's an annoying judgment, OP, and it's not justified by the facts in the case.

I'm sorry to hear about this.

She looked gorgeous on Merv the other night.

Why did she quit acting?

Wasn't she also a really bright lady who helped the government with codes diring WW II?

Yes, R10. She invented frequency-hopping technology that was foundational to the development of Bluetooth and WiFi.

[quote]OP, you forgot to write "BEARKING!"

No, insipid R1, OP did it just fine. Give it the fuck up, troll.

R8, Merv was very shady in that interview. The way he mentioned her large "diamond" ring, knowing full well that she could never afford a real diamond like that. She had to explain to him that it was fake and she paid $1 for it. And then saying something about a star of her stature would surely have real diamonds.

Why have I never seen this movie? It looks like a campy dream.

It's a shame that Busybody Helen McGarry ruined Hedy's triumphant return to the silver screen over a $5 scarf. She could have gotten an Oscar nomination.

Hedy never received an Oscar nomination

WEHT Susan Gordon?

She had 3 fug kids. That must have hurt.

Turn in your gay card.

Imagine being that gorgeous and brilliant.

Sure she was. Like all of those actors who barely had any schooling with their names listed on a dialysis machine or a weird part for a defibrillator or something.

As if it isn't obvious from the above stories, she is known to have suffered from some form of dementia in her later years and it gradually grew increasingly worse.

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[quote] it gradually became worse.

I recoiled, R17. Were they adopted?

Bi-polar or manic depressive or something. Her son said it was hell living with her because she was so short-tempered and mercurial. Didn't sound like he missed her at all.

She left him out of her estate so the feeling was mutual.

I start thinking of DL as a blessed refuge from the humorless and irony-deprived, and then I read something like R12.

You could watch it as a double feature with Die Mommy Die!

Picture Mommy Dead trivia. They already had the costumes done and a portrait of Hedy wearing one of the gowns. They painted Zsa Zsa's head over Hedy's and she wore the same dress in the movie.

Hedy on the set of Picture Mommy Dead.

She inspired me in so many ways!

r17 I don't think those are her kids. Here is one where they are younger. Either they didn't look that bad then or they are different people.

r 24 She has 2 bio kids and 1 adopted.

1 step son and 2 bio kids.

She did have one of the most gorgeous faces in her day.

I don't remember it verbatim but Hedy once said something like "Any woman can be beautiful. You just stand there and look stupid."

Her technological design and research made it possible for Al Gore to invent the internet…

Saw her bio daughter IRL years ago, and she was very attractive. It seems Miss Lamar's nose was actual natural, her daughter had a great one too.

Hedy is actually quite good in H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) opposite Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Van Heflin, and Charles Coburn.

R38, that’s Golden Age Hollywood Queen Van Heflin to you, buddy.

You're thinking of Van Johnson, r39. Van Heflin was straight, but he won the Oscar for playing a subtextually gay man in Johnny Eager (1942) opposite Robert Taylor.

You are correct, R40. I watched a Van Heflin film a few nights ago thus my error.

R14 Picture Mommy Dead is quite fun…of the I Saw What You Did variety.

A truly brilliant and courageous woman. A sad end.

I looked up what Hedy actually said and I was very close:

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

For all she dismissed her glamour and beauty, she messed around with plastic surgery relatively young in an attempt to hold back time and hang on to the very thing she said was so trivial. Eventually she ruined her own face. I think back then, no one really realised the detrimental effect of smoking drinking and too much sun. No surgeon can undo years of that. For me, it starts in the Bob Hope films Hedy Lamar is not quite so beautiful anymore. But during the late 40’s, a truly breathtaking beauty. Sad we now know she appears to have has some unresolved mental problems. Like Monroe, Hayworth and Tierney when you looked like that, who cared what was happening inside.

She reminds me a lot of Vivian Leigh, both in terms of appearance and mental health issues. I think Leigh was manic-depressive, which is probably what ailed Hedy.

That was just bad pic of her kids. Her son is nice looking here. He's number 3. (Kitty Carlisle guessed wrong!) And her daughter is in next segment - also number 3.

Whenever I glance at this thread in Watched threads I read it as “Soccer legend Hedy Lamarr arrested”.

Is there any performance she gave that deserved an Oscar nomination? I don't thi k I've seen her in anything.

She's in Sampson and Deliah with Angela Lansbury?

r49, see H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) mentioned above. She's excellent; don't know if it's Oscar-worthy, but it's a solid performance when she was rarely given the chance to do that.

Gal Gadot is playing Hedy in in a new series.

All three of HL's kids were bio. She pulled a Loretta Young with the eldest after she became pregnant when single. So she pretended to adopt him. Some time later she married the boy's bio father, but the adoption charade carried on.

John Loder was the father of two of her kids.

He's probably best known for playing Bette Davis' fiancé, Elliott Livingston, in "Now, Voyager".

Hedy was once engaged to marry hunky George Montgomery.

After they broke off the engagement, he began dating and married Dinah Shore.

How did she get the name Hedy, did she take after Nancy Davis?

Her birth name was Hedwig. Hedy is short for that.

Damn. Her facelifts were extreme.

She evidently developed an ED as well.

What's "ED"?

Poor Joan Crawford looks like the ugly stepsister next to Hedy and Joan Bennett.

When she was just a teenager, she appeared nude and performed the first onscreen female orgasm in Ecstasy, a 1933 film that the pope denounced and Hitler banned.

Hedy helped to design the first airplanes:

But we should instead remember her as the woman who suggested that Howard Hughes change the shape of airplane wings—from rectangular to something based on the natural shapes of fish fins and bird wings.

And her most astonishing achievement? At the height of the WWII war effort, with her inventing partner, the avant garde pianist George Antheil, Lamarr came up with the idea for a radio-controlled torpedo. It incorporated the groundbreaking concept of frequency hopping, which would allow missiles to go undetected.

Eventually, her invention would be used during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and would serve as the groundwork for wireless technologies we all use today.

R62, what an entertaining if totally untrue fantasy.

Didn't she invent White -Out?

Did she invent the myth of the female orgasm?

[quote]WEHT Susan Gordon?

She died in 2011 in Teaneck, N.J., which may be redundant. She was 62.

I think Joan looks better than the other two in that pic. Joan Bennett had a weak jawline, a not great nose and Hedy looks very draggy.

Agree, R68.