Have just watched a documentary about her on U.K. television. Aged five Hedy completely disassembled a clockwork toy and assembled it again fully working. She was incredibly intelligent and must have had a high I.Q. If she had not been an actor it is mostly likely she would have been a scientist. Her natural beauty was outstanding and the documentary mentioned that when she entered a room men and women would just stare at her. Ahead of her time, her early 1940s patent for Frequency Hopping is now the basis for WIFi, Bluetooth and GPS valued at 33 billion dollars ! The United States Navy used the technology in the 1950s and she never received any money in royalties. A truly remarkable and gifted woman, I would have loved to have met her....
Could you imagine that Lana turner made a comment about hedy lamarrs acting abilities,? That's like Bill Cosby teaching a class about rape prevention techniques, or yoko Ono winning a Grammy for best album of the year 🤔
She was hired to costar in the 1965 film Picture Mommy Dead. According to what I have read, Miss Lamarr was fired or she walked out of the film because she expected film making to be what it was back when she was a star in the 40's and 50's. The young director found her difficult to work with because she seemed unwilling or incapable of following the film making protocols of the 1960's. The pace was faster and far less attention was paid to star trappings. She challenged everything from how her makeup was applied to how she should read the script. The young director stated that seemed more concerned about how she was lit than anything else. The young director tried to make it work but the executives were not as patient. I believe she was replaced by Zsa Zsa Gabor in the film.
She was an unusually good actress. I notice the way she speaks, the way she moves, speaks etc..she is refined and elegant. I am also part Austrian. She has such a beautiful accent. Her son is very sweet, great eyes too. They are well-behaved on t.v unlike today. People relish in being uncouth in public. She is a mysterious lady who invented Wi Fi. You wonder what was lurking inside her active mind. She was probably a very deep and analytical thinker.
in her autobiography, Lana Turner has mentioned that once inside a club, Heddy Lamarr turned up so radiant and stunning, everyone in the room paused just to stare at her descend the staircase.
Did anyone notice the lovely manners Tony had, he acknowledged the other contestants ( Male and female) even helping #1 'wife' contestant with her chair at the program end. They appeared to be a loving family and lucky to have inherited Hedys good looks and pleasing demeanor.
I read a book by Lana's daughter Cheryl Crane, who mentioned that Lana said that Hedy was the most gorgeous woman she had ever seen. And doesn't she look great in a very clean, mod 1968 look. It was a big treat to see the whole show, CBS Color Intro and all!
I read that book of Lana's and I gotta say, what a tribute from one iconic babe to another. Takes some real class to see this 'class act' make an entrance.
Lana turner was MGM's resident tramp, she slept with all the males and some females in all her yrs there , she was totally humorless and uppity, totally responsible for the stabbing of her gangster _gigolo scumbag boyfriend Johnny stompanato, he and gotti,getting, the Italian American community 300 hundred yrs back ,to the likes of Caligula, Nero, and that little poison giving hag lucretia borgia, so miss Lana, no eyebrows turner, made her daughter take the blame for the murder, while she went on, to make more crappy films, and spread more std's since the Spanish conquistadors landed in America,
Nice. This is the first time I've seen this episode with the VTR slate and CBS intro as well as original commercials. Thank goodness at least one episode remains in color.
Wow! What a beautiful lady Hedy was. Can’t believe she was in her 50s here. Is that right? . Shes SO much prettier and classy compared to “actresses” of today. It was obvious to me which contestant was her son. Not only was the appearance similar to hers, but the shy introspective mannerisms was similar to Hedy’s. What a nice guy her son is to kiss the number 1 contestant so she wouldn’t feel left out. That shows great sensitivity - something I see in Hedy.
Great to see this in colour! Hedy Lamar is indeed a beautiful woman, and I'm glad her particular intelligence is acknowledged here. My favourite beauty was Rita Hayworth! And I thought it rude of Kitty to persist in questioning if the young wife would support her new husband.
What a lovely remembrance, seeing Denise Colton......Perhaps you know of her kindness, maturity at such a young age, her creativity & talent. All testament to her Mother, her upbringing, and how Denise cultivated it all into the amazing & caring human being she became, and is to this day. Forever etched in our family's memory. Love it DD
Yes, I recall the 1/2 hour evening news in that time. Reporting the death, ETC., the horrors that were Viet Nam. The IMPERIALISTIC UNITED STATES WAR MONGER.
And the fashions! Gorgeous. He seemed like a very sweet guy. Hedy Lamar apparently did I lovely job as a mother. I love the movie "Dishonoured Lady" posted on RU-vid. Under rated movie, she certainly was.
I haven't seen bombshell yet but heard Denise talking about how sad it was at the end. Just glad she finally is getting the recognition for everything, her life was so extraordinary, and lived though some of the wildest times in human history. Truly remarkable, and historical
In addition to her film accomplishments, Hedy patented an idea that later became the crutch of both secure military communications and mobile phone technology. In 1942, Hedy and composer George Antheil patented what they called the “Secret Communication System.”
Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall are two my favorite, Strong, Smart and most beautiful actresses of all time. I know it’s subjective but that’s how I feel.
Back in the 1960's, there were 2 different kinds of folk: the squares, and the hip!!....I was one of the squares, i was only 9 years old...having the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, and all the fol-de-roll since then, I long to go back to this time. .....love that maxwell house ad.
This was wonderful to see and such a good program. Love hearing more about Hedy Lamarr and getting to see her family. We need more tv programs like this today. This was interesting, fun and very informative.
I thought that sounded like Betty White,friends,But in that commercial,she was brunette.So used to seeing her with that honeyblonde hair color,friends.
Aside from being much younger here,Betty also looked somewhat different with the darker,brown hair,friends.Like said before,I,m so used to seeing her with the honeyblonde hair for over 44 years.
If you see her son's documentary of Hedy, you'll see the children felt they weren't high priority in her life and had issues because of that. Not that there wasn't love there, but it was certainly far from the love-fest they're putting on here. There is a third child, an older brother, James, she was completely estranged from for 50 years. She led all to believe she had adopted him when, in fact, he was the full biological brother of the 2 children on the show. Even James believed he was adopted until after her death when he dug up his birth certificate and found that Hedy and John Loder were his biological, not adoptive, parents. Not mother of the year, but not another Joan Crawford, either. She was a genius relegated to an unfulfilling MGM life
@@Marcel_Audubon James was truly adopted and he could not have been Hedy and John Loder's son being born in 1939. They weren't involved until after they worked at the Hollywood Canteen on Christmas 1942. James had bad advice from a know nothing lawyer. The birth certificate he was showing was the new one issued after John Loder adopted him after he married Hedy...it had the new address from 1946. Courts seal the birth parents names in adoptions. The names of the birth parents are not found on a birth certificate for an adopted child. So we'll never know James' birth parents, though Hedy said his father was Irish and died in an accident before James was born and his mother died after. Denise revealed on an interview here on RU-vid that James and they took a DNA test which showed he is not biologically related. James was jealous of Tony and Denise when he was a kid about 7 or 8 and started problems, according to chauffeur Marvin Neal, and got into trouble at the boarding school, Chadwick's Military School. He wanted to leave the family after a few years causing problems and convinced a teacher and her husband to take him in. It was his choice to leave. James said Hedy reminded him of that when they spoke years later. Hedy gave him a trust fund and paid for his education for many years. The kids were a high priority in her life but her career changed and they didn't have the same money coming in. The kids had it a bit easier when Hedy was married to Lee. She came from a background of going to boarding schools when she was a kid so that was normal for her.
for those who want to know a little more about Hedy Lamarr there is a great podcast called You Must Remember This Podcast. There is an episode about her which is really great.
"really great"?? let me guess ... you're a millennial, right? I listened to the entire podcast hoping it was "really great," but in vain... It tries to impose a 21st century feminist sensibility on a woman born in 1913. It gives Louis B. Mayer, who was born in Russia and grew up in New Brunswick and in Massachusetts a laughable New York fugghetaboudit type accent that he never had. Hedy, too, is given an accent she never had: a cross between Garbo's I-Vant-to-be-left-alone and a giddy Natasha Fatale. For the record, Hedy never had trouble pronouncing the letter W. I'll ignore the many more New Yawk accents this woman misguidedly attributes to midwesterners to move on to her many, MANY mispronunciations - SylVAHNia televisions?? this company is still in business today, a call to their corporate offices would have been answered with the correct pronunciation. I wont even get into her repeated mispronunciation of major character George Antheil's name. She has ALL the facts about son James wrong, most seriously not correcting the record on a fact that has been known for 20 years: he was the biological son of Hedy and John Loder making him a full brother to her other children. This broad needs an editor, or at the very least, a friend (who is not a millennial) willing to listen to her podcast before she drops it and challenge her on facts and pronunciations that anyone over 40 will recognize as errors. No, this podcast was NOT "really great." The Hedy Lamarr story is fascinating and deserves better.
Bud Collyer, on the day this show was taped, was exactly 16 months from his premature death of a circulatory disease on 9/8/69, the very day TTTT returned, this time in syndication. (The daytime show you're watching ended on 9/6/68.) Collyer was invited to host the syndicated version, but by that time his health woes were mounting; he spent 3 weeks in the hospital before dying.
Soon as she said she didn't get to meet her mother in law until the day of the wedding, I knew it was her. It just goes to show you, each of us in life have our own unique problems and experiences. And it's often dressed up in pleasantries and performance. I love Hedy Lamarrs persona. But I'm sure the kids had some of there own hardships and perhaps other experiences of the kind most of us inadvertently reveal to those who are closest to us. We're all human.
My dad worked for the company that made Fantastik. They let Betty White go after she began playing Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," feeling that the character was too raunchy to fit the image the company wanted to present.
