Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1914–January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator. She was known as The Most Beautiful Woman In Films and also as a co-inventor of the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication.

Marriages

The actress was married to:

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Friedrich (Fritz) Mandl (1900-1977), married 1933-37; chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. In 1938, when his property was seized by the Austrian government, Mandl, although also of Jewish descent, was a Nazi factotum who had become close to Prince Ernst Ruediger von Stahremberg, the deposed Fascist Austrian Vice-Chancellor, fled to Brazil and later Argentina, where he became a citizen and remarried. He also became an advisor to Juan Perón and a film producer whose leading ladies included the future Eva Perón. He also founded a new company, an airplane factory called "Industria Metalúrgica y Plástica Argentina", and served a prison sentence.

Related Topics:
Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik - Prince Ernst Ruediger von Stahremberg - Juan Perón - Eva Perón

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Gene Markey (died 1980), screenwriter and producer, married 1939-41; son (adopted), James Lamarr Markey (1939-). When Lamarr and Markey divorced -- she claimed they had only spent four evenings alone together in their marriage -- the judge advised her to get to know any future husband more than the four weeks she had known Markey. Previously married to the actress Joan Bennett (whose daughter, Diane Bennett Fox, he adopted and gave his surname) and father of their daughter Melinda, Markey later married Lucille Wright (née Parker), the owner of Calumet Farm, the thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky.

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John Loder (né John Muir Lowe, 1899-1989), actor, married 1943-47; two children: Anthony Loder (1947-) and Denise Loder (1945-). In 1949, Loder married Evelyn Auffmordt (née Carolan), and in 1958, he married Alba Julia Lagomarsino. He also had a son and a daughter by his first two marriages to Sophie Kabel and Micheline Cheirel.

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NOTE 1: Loder adopted James Lamarr Markey and gave him his surname. Now a riverboat casino guard, James Lamarr Loder later challenged Hedy Lamarr's will in 2000, which did not mention him. He later dropped his suit against the estate in exchange for a lump-sum payment of $50,000. Loder is married to the former Ona Minor and has four children, all of whom carry Lamarr as their middle name: Timothy, Ronald, Nadine, and Susan.

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NOTE 2: A former Nordstrom employee, Denise Loder, now known as Denise Loder DeLuca, lives in Seattle.

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NOTE 3: Anthony Loder is the owner of Phone USA, a cellular-phone store in Los Angeles.

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Ernest "Ted" Stauffer, nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader, married 1951-52. He was married in 1955 to Anne Nekel Brown.

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W. Howard Lee (1909-1981), a Texas oilman, married 1953-60. In 1960, he married film star Gene Tierney.

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Lewis J. Boies (1920-), a lawyer, married 1963-65. They were divorced after Lamarr claimed he had threatened her with a baseball bat.

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