In 1928, he began to practice in Hollywood, where he had a number of celebrity clients, including Hedy Lamarr and Thelma Todd.
He realised well known or historically important German and Austrian films, such as the scandalous Ecstasy (1933) with Hedy Lamarr or the early horror film The Hands of Orlac (1924).
In 1997, Dr. Hatim Zaghloul learnt that Hedy Lamarr was never compensated for her invention of frequency hopping spread spectrum.
In that year, glamorous Hedy Lamarr was pictured in point of purchase advertising signs.
It is sometimes incorrectly claimed that the origin of the resonant reed decoder was in the wartime torpedo-control patent granted to the actress Hedy Lamarr.
By then, she was featured in an article signed by Carl Guldager and published in the Chicago Daily News with this headline: “She’s Hedy Lamarr of Softball, Twila Shively Looks Like Model, Runs Bases Like Ty Cobb. Has Baseball Savvy Plus Pretty Face”.
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The Strange Woman is a 1946 American dramatic thriller film by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, and Louis Hayward.