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Beautiful invention : a novel of Hedy Lamarr / by Margaret Porter.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.O653 B43 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Margaret Evans, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Fiction.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Women inventors--United States--Fiction.
- Women inventors.
- Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000--Fiction.
- Lamarr, Hedy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Middletown, Del.?] : Gallica Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Hedy Kiesler, Austrian actress of Jewish heritage, scandalizes Europe with her nudity in the art film Ecstasy. Her hasty marriage to a wealthy munitions merchant disintegrates as he grows increasingly controlling and possessive. Even worse--he supplies deadly weapons to Hitler's regime. She flees husband and homeland for Hollywood, where Louis B. Mayer transforms her into Hedy Lamarr, an icon of exotic glamour. Professional success clashes with her personal life as marriage and motherhood compete with the demands of studio and stardom. Motivated by the atrocities of World War II, Hedy secretly invents a new technology intended for her adopted country's defense--and unexpectedly changes the world"--Back cover.
- ISBN:
- 9780990742036
- 0990742032
- OCLC:
- 1050617653
- Publisher Number:
- 99980207284
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