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8Hedy wanted to do
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12something important
13with her life.
14
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17She wanted to make her mark.
18
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21But she was totally judged
22by that face.
23
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26One of the most
27glamorous stars
28
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31show business
32ever has produced...
33
347
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36One of the most glamorous stars
37the screen has ever known...
38
398
4000:01:53,155 --> 00:01:55,067
41And one of the most beautiful
42women in the world...
43
449
4500:01:55,282 --> 00:01:56,272
46Well, shall we all
47say it together?
48
4910
5000:01:56,491 --> 00:01:58,323
51- I think we all know.
52- ♪ The most beautiful girl
53
5411
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56in the world ♪
57
5812
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60Hedy Lamarr.
61
6213
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64She becomes the model
65for Snow White.
66
6714
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69And she inspired Catwoman.
70
7115
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73Oh, my God, I mean, she was...
74
7516
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77she was the best-looking
78movie star that ever lived.
79
8017
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82She became my inspiration.
83
8418
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86Thank you, thank you,
87Hedy, thank you.
88
8919
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91It's not Hedy, it's Hedley,
92Hedley LaMarr.
93
9420
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96I don't know whether it's true,
97but you hear things.
98
9921
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101I heard that she was
102a scientist.
103
10422
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106So is this true?
107
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110Within the nerd community
111at Google,
112
11324
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115Hedy Lamarr was
116this beloved figure.
117
11825
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120For me, she is
121this perfect underdog,
122
12326
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125like,
126crime-fighter-by-night story
127
12827
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130because she lived this life
131of great accomplishments
132
13328
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135and people
136didn't really know about it.
137
13829
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140I remember sitting up
141in a bare attic with my mother,
142
14330
14400:02:53,215 --> 00:02:55,332
145she said,
146"Look, I got a patent."
147
14831
14900:02:55,550 --> 00:02:56,836
150"You got a patent, Mom?"
151
15232
15300:02:57,052 --> 00:02:58,714
154- "Yeah."
155- "You invented something?"
156
15733
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159"Yeah, I invented a secret
160communication system, look."
161
16234
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164And, today, we have Wi-Fi
165and Bluetooth.
166
16735
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169That's my mother's technology.
170
17136
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173You see?
174
17537
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177No.
178
17938
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181Well, it is kind of hard
182to explain.
183
18439
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186Hedy had one of the most
187recognizable faces of her time,
188
18940
19000:03:21,201 --> 00:03:23,534
191and yet, she said
192she was never seen
193
19441
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196for who she was.
197
19842
19900:03:27,124 --> 00:03:28,160
200So, who was she?
201
20243
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204Tell me something
205that I didn't know about you.
206
20744
20800:03:40,053 --> 00:03:42,170
209I want to be a simple... I am!
210
21145
21200:03:42,389 --> 00:03:46,008
213I'm a very simple,
214complicated person.
215
21646
21700:03:47,436 --> 00:03:48,392
218Could you help her?
219
22047
22100:03:48,603 --> 00:03:50,139
222- Yes, but not here.
223- But you know what I mean?
224
22548
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227You know what I mean!
228
22949
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231This book you're writing now,
232Hedy, are there...
233
23450
23500:03:54,776 --> 00:03:58,895
236Incidents, things that
237nobody ever knew about me.
238
23951
24000:03:59,114 --> 00:04:01,447
241- Regrets?
242- Oh, no, no regrets.
243
24452
24500:04:01,658 --> 00:04:03,820
246You learn from everything
247all the time.
248
24953
25000:04:04,035 --> 00:04:04,866
251When I was a child,
252
25354
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255she was always working
256on her story.
257
25855
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260She was going to let
261the world know her version
262
26356
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265and her story
266and her autobiography
267
26857
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270in her words, but yet,
271it never came to be.
272
27358
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275Hedy became a recluse.
276
27759
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279She wouldn't even see
280her family.
281
28260
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284We wanted to spend time
285with her,
286
28761
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289but she kept us away.
290
29162
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293There was so much scandal.
294
29563
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297There were different chapters
298of scandal.
299
30064
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302There was her movie Ecstasy
303that she made as an adolescent,
304
30565
30600:04:35,525 --> 00:04:38,609
307the nudity and the explicitness
308of that,
309
31066
31100:04:38,820 --> 00:04:42,279
312and then the multiple
313marriages and divorces,
314
31567
31600:04:42,491 --> 00:04:44,357
317and then the arrests.
318
31968
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321My mother has a hard side
322and an easy side,
323
32469
32500:04:48,538 --> 00:04:53,283
326and as her son, growing up
327with Hedy was difficult.
328
32970
33000:04:55,045 --> 00:04:57,332
331I mean, she had so many sides
332and so many faces,
333
33471
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336and even I couldn't understand
337who Hedy Lamarr was.
338
33972
34000:05:07,140 --> 00:05:09,348
341I'd been waiting for somebody
342to contact me
343
34473
34500:05:09,559 --> 00:05:11,141
346about Hedy Lamarr
347
34874
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350because I had the tapes.
351
35275
35300:05:19,903 --> 00:05:22,361
354Where did I find it?
355
35676
35700:05:22,572 --> 00:05:23,904
358It's embarrassing.
359
36077
36100:05:24,115 --> 00:05:26,573
362I found it
363behind that blue trash can.
364
36578
36600:05:26,785 --> 00:05:29,152
367I'd had stuff stowed there
368and I moved it out of the way,
369
37079
37100:05:29,371 --> 00:05:31,112
372and there it was.
373
37480
37500:05:31,331 --> 00:05:32,913
376So, in all,
377there were four tapes
378
37981
38000:05:33,124 --> 00:05:35,207
381and this is the first one.
382
38382
38400:05:35,418 --> 00:05:37,284
385Ready?
386
38783
38800:05:38,547 --> 00:05:39,253
389Yes?
390
39184
39200:05:39,464 --> 00:05:40,830
393This is Fleming Meeks
394at Forbes.
395
39685
39700:05:41,049 --> 00:05:43,336
398Oh, hello! Thank you so much
399for the roses.
400
40186
40200:05:43,552 --> 00:05:44,133
403You're very welcome.
404
40587
40600:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,836
407I love them!
408
40988
41000:05:47,055 --> 00:05:48,591
411I'm very pleased.
412
41389
41400:05:48,807 --> 00:05:50,139
415I was a staff writer at Forbes
416
41790
41800:05:50,350 --> 00:05:54,185
419and my father was
420an astrophysicist at MIT,
421
42291
42300:05:54,396 --> 00:05:55,637
424and he called me one day,
425and he said,
426
42792
42800:05:55,856 --> 00:05:57,848
429"I've just talked
430with this friend of mine here
431
43293
43300:05:58,066 --> 00:05:59,352
434and he told me
435this amazing story
436
43794
43800:05:59,568 --> 00:06:03,278
439about Hedy Lamarr,"
440and, of course, I pursued it.
441
44295
44300:06:03,488 --> 00:06:06,196
444I want to sell my life story
445to Ted Turner
446
44796
44800:06:06,408 --> 00:06:08,195
449because it's unbelievable.
450
45197
45200:06:08,410 --> 00:06:11,244
453The opposite
454of what people think.
455
45698
45700:06:11,454 --> 00:06:13,286
458The brains of people
459are more interesting
460
46199
46200:06:13,498 --> 00:06:16,161
463than the looks, I think.
464
465100
46600:06:16,376 --> 00:06:19,619
467People have the idea
468I'm sort of a stupid thing.
469
470101
47100:06:19,838 --> 00:06:22,125
472I never knew I looked good
473to begin with.
474
475102
47600:06:22,340 --> 00:06:24,832
477Because my mother
478wanted a boy
479
480103
48100:06:25,051 --> 00:06:27,338
482named Georg (George).
483
484104
48500:06:27,554 --> 00:06:30,012
486So unfortunately
487I didn't become that and...
488
489105
49000:06:30,223 --> 00:06:32,089
491she wasn't too thrilled
492about that.
493
494106
49500:06:34,477 --> 00:06:35,968
496I was...
497
498107
49900:06:36,187 --> 00:06:37,268
500different, I guess.
501
502108
50300:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,813
504Maybe I came from
505a different planet, who knows.
506
507109
50800:06:41,443 --> 00:06:42,274
509But whatever it is...
510
511110
51200:06:42,485 --> 00:06:44,898
513inventions are easy
514for me to do.
515
516111
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518My mother was very inventive.
519
520112
52100:06:49,117 --> 00:06:52,155
522In this article,
523"Hedy's interest in gadgets
524
525113
52600:06:52,370 --> 00:06:54,828
527really started
528at the age of five
529
530114
53100:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,249
532when she took
533an old-fashioned music box apart
534
535115
53600:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,827
537and put it
538back together again."
539
540116
54100:07:02,589 --> 00:07:06,458
542And this was
543her childhood music box.
544
545117
54600:07:08,053 --> 00:07:09,669
547You wind up
548this little rabbit here
549
550118
55100:07:09,888 --> 00:07:13,302
552and it plays
553an Austrian melody.
554
555119
55600:07:21,733 --> 00:07:22,974
557My mother was curious.
558
559120
56000:07:23,193 --> 00:07:26,186
561She had a very intellectually
562curious mind.
563
564121
56500:07:26,404 --> 00:07:28,270
566She wanted to know
567how things worked,
568
569122
57000:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,198
571and her father told her things.
572
573123
57400:07:31,409 --> 00:07:34,243
575Although her father's
576official position
577
578124
57900:07:34,454 --> 00:07:36,161
580was as bank director,
581
582125
58300:07:36,373 --> 00:07:40,492
584he was also interested
585in technology.
586
587126
58800:07:43,004 --> 00:07:45,212
589So, when they went
590for their walks,
591
592127
59300:07:45,423 --> 00:07:48,757
594he would point out to her
595how things worked.
596
597128
59800:07:48,969 --> 00:07:52,258
599The streetcar
600with its electric trolleys
601
602129
60300:07:52,472 --> 00:07:54,805
604leads these wires
605to a factory
606
607130
60800:07:55,016 --> 00:07:58,509
609that generates electricity.
610
611131
61200:07:58,728 --> 00:08:02,312
613She learned
614to associate invention
615
616132
61700:08:02,524 --> 00:08:05,892
618with this father,
619whom she adored.
620
621133
62200:08:07,195 --> 00:08:07,935
623My father...
624
625134
62600:08:08,154 --> 00:08:10,362
627He was a wonderful person.
628
629135
63000:08:11,658 --> 00:08:12,990
631I miss him.
632
633136
63400:08:17,372 --> 00:08:21,207
635They lived in Vienna
636in a fashionable district,
637
638137
63900:08:21,418 --> 00:08:23,205
640the 19th District.
641
642138
64300:08:23,420 --> 00:08:24,536
644It was heavily Jewish
645
646139
64700:08:24,754 --> 00:08:28,088
648but also
649very artistically inclined.
650
651140
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653Hedy's parents were both
654assimilated Jews.
655
656141
65700:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,798
658That was very common in
659the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
660
661142
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663They were wealthy,
664they were cultured.
665
666143
66700:08:39,352 --> 00:08:43,141
668They took their daughter
669to the opera, to the theater.
670
671144
67200:08:43,356 --> 00:08:47,145
673Everyone was connected with
674this world of make believe.
675
676145
67700:08:48,653 --> 00:08:49,734
678I miss Austria.
679
680146
68100:08:49,946 --> 00:08:51,107
682Have you ever been there?
683
684147
68500:08:51,322 --> 00:08:52,403
686I've been to Austria, yes.
687
688148
68900:08:52,615 --> 00:08:54,447
690Not Vienna?
691
692149
69300:08:54,659 --> 00:08:56,742
694Fall is the best time
695to go there.
696
697150
69800:08:58,830 --> 00:09:00,116
699Where did you go to school?
700
701151
70200:09:00,331 --> 00:09:01,993
703In a private school in Vienna.
704
705152
70600:09:02,208 --> 00:09:05,542
707My favorite thing in school
708was...
709
710153
71100:09:05,754 --> 00:09:08,337
712What's that thing
713when you mix things?
714
715154
71600:09:08,548 --> 00:09:11,211
717- Chemistry.
718- Chemistry! Thank you.
719
720155
72100:09:11,426 --> 00:09:12,883
722Well I'm good at that.
723
724156
72500:09:14,345 --> 00:09:15,461
726In a different era,
727
728157
72900:09:15,680 --> 00:09:20,095
730she might very well
731have become a scientist.
732
733158
73400:09:20,310 --> 00:09:22,017
735At the very least,
736it's an option
737
738159
73900:09:22,228 --> 00:09:25,346
740that was derailed by her beauty.
741
742160
74300:09:31,529 --> 00:09:33,646
744By the time she was a teenager,
745
746161
74700:09:33,865 --> 00:09:37,199
748when she walked into a room,
749conversation stopped.
750
751162
75200:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,993
753She was probably
754a little dazzled by this power,
755
756163
75700:09:43,208 --> 00:09:44,244
758testing it out,
759
760164
76100:09:44,459 --> 00:09:46,200
762seeing how it works
763and so forth.
764
765165
76600:09:48,505 --> 00:09:49,916
767There's a word for what I was.
768
769166
77000:09:50,131 --> 00:09:50,917
771A... what?
772
773167
77400:09:51,132 --> 00:09:53,465
775'Enfant terrible.'
776
777168
77800:09:53,676 --> 00:09:55,918
779I know that.
780I know that much French.
781
782169
78300:09:56,137 --> 00:09:57,173
784Well good!
785
786170
78700:09:57,388 --> 00:10:01,132
788There are stories about her
789heading to the photographer
790
791171
79200:10:01,351 --> 00:10:05,641
793to get her photos taken
794with and without clothes.
795
796172
79700:10:08,316 --> 00:10:11,775
798She lived in a society
799where there were
800
801173
80200:10:11,986 --> 00:10:17,448
803many prominent women who had
804not only incredible careers,
805
806174
80700:10:17,659 --> 00:10:20,447
808but loads of lovers.
809
810175
81100:10:20,662 --> 00:10:23,120
812Women, especially in the arts,
813
814176
81500:10:23,331 --> 00:10:25,288
816could have certain
817kinds of liberties
818
819177
82000:10:25,500 --> 00:10:31,337
821that they would not find
822in normal bourgeois society.
823
824178
82500:10:31,548 --> 00:10:34,006
826Hedy decided one day,
827at the age of 16,
828
829179
83000:10:34,217 --> 00:10:36,083
831that she was ready
832
833180
83400:10:36,302 --> 00:10:40,842
835and went off to the largest
836film studio and walked in.
837
838181
83900:10:41,057 --> 00:10:43,549
840Very quickly,
841within a couple days,
842
843182
84400:10:43,768 --> 00:10:45,600
845they had her in a walk-on.
846
847183
84800:10:48,606 --> 00:10:52,475
849I have seen
850the little weird Viennese films
851
852184
85300:10:52,694 --> 00:10:54,151
854that she made in the beginning
855
856185
85700:10:54,362 --> 00:10:56,524
858where she's
859a little bit awkward
860
861186
86200:10:56,739 --> 00:10:58,901
863but clearly beautiful.
864
865187
86600:11:04,414 --> 00:11:08,124
867But it's clearly
868the 1933 film Ecstasy
869
870188
87100:11:08,334 --> 00:11:12,328
872that really brought her
873into everyone's consciousness.
874
875189
87600:11:14,716 --> 00:11:16,878
877Hedy became world famous
878
879190
88000:11:17,093 --> 00:11:21,007
881the moment she appeared naked
882in Ecstasy.
883
884191
88500:11:24,726 --> 00:11:26,137
886The Pope denounced it
887
888192
88900:11:26,352 --> 00:11:29,891
890and Hitler refused it
891to be shown.
892
893193
89400:11:30,106 --> 00:11:33,599
895People were just shocked by it.
896
897194
89800:11:33,818 --> 00:11:37,402
899It was quite controversial
900because she simulated an orgasm.
901
902195
90300:11:37,614 --> 00:11:39,901
904I think it was the first time
905anybody had ever done that.
906
907196
90800:11:41,701 --> 00:11:44,318
909I mean, in some ways,
910it was analogous to a sex tape.
911
912197
91300:11:44,537 --> 00:11:48,326
914This was so scandalous
915and really marked her
916
917198
91800:11:48,541 --> 00:11:49,952
919as this certain type of woman.
920
921199
92200:11:51,878 --> 00:11:54,211
923I don't know
924if you ever saw that.
925
926200
92700:11:54,422 --> 00:11:56,459
928I don't believe I have.
929
930201
93100:11:56,674 --> 00:12:00,634
932There was a scene
933in which I was totally alone
934
935202
93600:12:00,845 --> 00:12:03,337
937but it was cut so that it
938
939203
94000:12:03,556 --> 00:12:06,173
941showed that it was
942a very hot sex scene,
943
944204
94500:12:06,392 --> 00:12:07,348
946which it wasn't.
947
948205
94900:12:07,560 --> 00:12:08,971
950You must have seen
951a picture of that, right?
952
953206
95400:12:09,187 --> 00:12:10,223
955Yes, ma'am.
956
957207
95800:12:10,438 --> 00:12:13,397
959And I said, "Why do I have
960to put my arms together?"
961
962208
96300:12:13,608 --> 00:12:15,600
964And they said,
965"Don't ask so many questions."
966
967209
96800:12:15,818 --> 00:12:18,231
969"If you don't do what I say
970then I put the needle
971
972210
97300:12:18,446 --> 00:12:21,314
974through the couch
975so you do what I tell you."
976
977211
97800:12:21,532 --> 00:12:22,318
979And I was...
980
981212
98200:12:22,533 --> 00:12:26,447
983I didn't want to make any
984commotion, so I did that.
985
986213
98700:12:26,663 --> 00:12:28,780
988And when I came back to Vienna
989
990214
99100:12:28,998 --> 00:12:30,239
992my father... I mean...
993
994215
99500:12:30,458 --> 00:12:32,074
996it was horrendous.
997
998216
99900:12:32,293 --> 00:12:35,957
1000He wanted to kill me
1001practically.
1002
1003217
100400:12:36,172 --> 00:12:37,333
1005What I did though...
1006
1007218
100800:12:37,548 --> 00:12:38,413
1009right after that
1010
1011219
101200:12:38,633 --> 00:12:40,374
1013I said, "I'll show them."
1014
1015220
101600:12:43,012 --> 00:12:45,299
1017Fritz Kreisler
1018composed a musical called
1019
1020221
102100:12:45,515 --> 00:12:48,303
1022'Elisabeth of Austria, '
1023the Queen of Austria,
1024
1025222
102600:12:48,518 --> 00:12:51,807
1027and I had a big, big, big
1028success with that.
1029
1030223
103100:12:52,021 --> 00:12:54,809
1032On stage.
1033
1034224
103500:12:55,024 --> 00:12:56,390
1036I had ovations
1037
1038225
103900:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,646
1040and my father cried.
1041
1042226
104300:13:02,615 --> 00:13:06,325
1044And then I got married
1045right after that.
1046
1047227
104800:13:06,536 --> 00:13:08,368
1049Hedwig, as an actress,
1050
1051228
105200:13:08,579 --> 00:13:11,868
1053drew, of course,
1054the attention of many people,
1055
1056229
105700:13:12,083 --> 00:13:17,295
1058and one of those was
1059a man named Fritz Mandl.
1060
1061230
106200:13:17,505 --> 00:13:21,215
1063I was married to
1064a munitions tycoon in Austria!
1065
1066231
106700:13:22,343 --> 00:13:25,632
1068He is the Henry Ford of Austria.
1069
1070232
107100:13:25,847 --> 00:13:30,262
1072He, at that point,
1073is 14 years her senior.
1074
1075233
107600:13:30,476 --> 00:13:33,093
1077He is allied with the Nazis
1078
1079234
108000:13:33,313 --> 00:13:36,351
1081because he's
1082an armaments manufacturer.
1083
1084235
108500:13:37,317 --> 00:13:38,933
1086As it is the same today,
1087
1088236
108900:13:39,152 --> 00:13:43,237
1090a lot of wealthy men would like
1091to decorate themselves
1092
1093237
109400:13:43,448 --> 00:13:45,280
1095with beautiful women,
1096and I think she was,
1097
1098238
109900:13:45,491 --> 00:13:48,154
1100for a minute,
1101fascinated with that as well.
1102
1103239
110400:13:51,205 --> 00:13:54,789
1105We had a country house
1106with 25 guest rooms.
1107
1108240
110900:13:55,001 --> 00:13:56,367
1110And we went hunting.
1111
1112241
111300:13:56,586 --> 00:13:59,169
1114And I loved that.
1115
1116242
111700:13:59,380 --> 00:14:00,837
1118Do you know guns?
1119
1120243
112100:14:01,049 --> 00:14:01,914
1122Yes.
1123
1124244
112500:14:02,133 --> 00:14:06,093
1126I had a Browning
1127and I shot a stag into the neck
1128
1129245
113000:14:06,304 --> 00:14:08,091
1131350 meters.
1132
1133246
113400:14:08,306 --> 00:14:09,262
1135Meters? Very long.
1136
1137247
113800:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,466
1139I'm a good shot
1140so be careful!
1141
1142248
114300:14:13,561 --> 00:14:17,180
1144Hedy was Mandl's armpiece
1145
1146249
114700:14:17,398 --> 00:14:19,310
1148at the banquets that he served
1149
1150250
115100:14:19,525 --> 00:14:23,109
1152for admirals
1153in the German and Italian Navy.
1154
1155251
115600:14:23,321 --> 00:14:26,064
1157She sat there and it was
1158her job to be beautiful,
1159
1160252
116100:14:26,282 --> 00:14:29,070
1162but she was bored
1163out of her mind.
1164
1165253
116600:14:32,747 --> 00:14:36,787
1167Fritz Mandl was,
1168by German measures, Jewish,
1169
1170254
117100:14:37,001 --> 00:14:39,163
1172and therefore,
1173Hitler was concerned
1174
1175255
117600:14:39,379 --> 00:14:40,335
1177not to be seen with him,
1178
1179256
118000:14:40,546 --> 00:14:43,038
1181and I doubt very much
1182if Hitler was a guest
1183
1184257
118500:14:43,257 --> 00:14:46,091
1186at one of their houses,
1187but Mussolini was.
1188
1189258
119000:14:50,014 --> 00:14:51,846
1191I assume that
1192your first husband
1193
1194259
119500:14:52,058 --> 00:14:53,594
1196was supplying arms to the...
1197
1198260
119900:14:53,810 --> 00:14:56,223
1200To the Germans.
1201
1202261
120300:14:56,437 --> 00:14:57,223
1204But he never let me in on...
1205
1206262
120700:14:57,438 --> 00:15:00,647
1208He never even let me
1209come into the factory.
1210
1211263
121200:15:00,858 --> 00:15:01,848
1213I disturbed the people.
1214
1215264
121600:15:02,068 --> 00:15:03,184
1217I didn't know why...
1218
1219265
122000:15:04,904 --> 00:15:06,520
1221Fritz did not like the effect
1222
1223266
122400:15:06,739 --> 00:15:10,232
1225that his beautiful wife had
1226on other men.
1227
1228267
122900:15:10,451 --> 00:15:15,196
1230He was immensely jealous
1231and paranoid about his wife.
1232
1233268
123400:15:16,958 --> 00:15:18,415
1235He was constantly convinced
1236
1237269
123800:15:18,626 --> 00:15:22,210
1239that she might be having
1240an affair.
1241
1242270
124300:15:22,422 --> 00:15:24,914
1244The big mistake
1245my husband at the time did
1246
1247271
124800:15:25,133 --> 00:15:27,466
1249he bought up prints of that...
1250
1251272
125200:15:27,677 --> 00:15:29,543
1253dumb picture!
1254
1255273
125600:15:29,762 --> 00:15:32,254
1257Mandl had the problem
1258of this film,
1259
1260274
126100:15:32,473 --> 00:15:36,012
1262this dirty picture
1263which he tried to buy up,
1264
1265275
126600:15:36,227 --> 00:15:39,095
1267and they started cranking
1268them out by the dozens,
1269
1270276
127100:15:39,313 --> 00:15:42,272
1272and he eventually gave up
1273because, obviously,
1274
1275277
127600:15:42,483 --> 00:15:45,442
1277they could make as many copies
1278as he chose to buy.
1279
1280278
128100:15:47,697 --> 00:15:50,405
1282He turned out to be someone
1283who had the maids listen in
1284
1285279
128600:15:50,616 --> 00:15:52,152
1287on her phone calls.
1288
1289280
129000:15:52,368 --> 00:15:54,576
1291She had everything
1292she could ever want,
1293
1294281
129500:15:54,787 --> 00:15:58,997
1296except the one thing that
1297Hedwig Kiesler always wanted
1298
1299282
130000:15:59,208 --> 00:16:00,619
1301which was freedom.
1302
1303283
130400:16:06,007 --> 00:16:08,841
1305By 1937,
1306the war was inevitable,
1307
1308284
130900:16:09,051 --> 00:16:11,293
1310and she was
1311in a desperate situation.
1312
1313285
131400:16:11,512 --> 00:16:12,719
1315Because after all,
1316
1317286
131800:16:12,930 --> 00:16:15,923
1319Hitler had everything
1320in the palm of his hand.
1321
1322287
132300:16:16,142 --> 00:16:18,099
1324When Ecstasy was released,
1325
1326288
132700:16:18,311 --> 00:16:21,930
1328Hitler told the American press
1329he was banning it
1330
1331289
133200:16:22,148 --> 00:16:25,061
1333because the lead actress
1334was Jewish.
1335
1336290
133700:16:30,990 --> 00:16:33,107
1338Jewish people were not allowed
1339out on streets
1340
1341291
134200:16:33,326 --> 00:16:36,194
1343at certain times of the day
1344and, gradually,
1345
1346292
134700:16:36,412 --> 00:16:40,281
1348they were denied
1349more and more civil rights.
1350
1351293
135200:16:40,500 --> 00:16:41,832
1353And this is one thing that led
1354
1355294
135600:16:42,043 --> 00:16:46,629
1357to Hedy's father Emil's death
1358was his stress and worry
1359
1360295
136100:16:46,839 --> 00:16:49,923
1362about what was happening.
1363
1364296
136500:16:50,134 --> 00:16:52,217
1366He died suddenly
1367from a heart attack.
1368
1369297
137000:16:53,804 --> 00:16:56,421
1371And I think that was
1372the turning point for her.
1373
1374298
137500:16:57,892 --> 00:17:01,511
1376Deep traumatic experiences
1377change us,
1378
1379299
138000:17:01,729 --> 00:17:03,641
1381and she came out the other side
1382
1383300
138400:17:03,856 --> 00:17:08,351
1385remembering what her father
1386had advised her from childhood:
1387
1388301
138900:17:08,569 --> 00:17:10,185
1390"Be yourself.
1391
1392302
139300:17:10,404 --> 00:17:12,817
1394Choose and take what you want,"
1395
1396303
139700:17:13,032 --> 00:17:16,196
1398which was certainly
1399Hedy's quality all her life.
1400
1401304
140200:17:19,121 --> 00:17:20,362
1403There are stories,
1404
1405305
140600:17:20,581 --> 00:17:22,038
1407whether they're apocryphal
1408or not,
1409
1410306
141100:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,163
1412who knows, but almost like
1413a prison escape.
1414
1415307
141600:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,170
1417Hedy had people watching her
1418all the time.
1419
1420308
142100:17:29,382 --> 00:17:31,089
1422There was no way
1423to break loose.
1424
1425309
142600:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,134
1427So, one night,
1428they were having a dinner party,
1429
1430310
143100:17:34,345 --> 00:17:37,884
1432and my mother
1433helped choose the maids
1434
1435311
143600:17:38,099 --> 00:17:40,967
1437and caretakers,
1438and so she found someone
1439
1440312
144100:17:41,185 --> 00:17:44,223
1442that looked like her a lot
1443'cause she had this in mind.
1444
1445313
144600:17:44,438 --> 00:17:46,304
1447So, she had
1448this sleeping powder,
1449
1450314
145100:17:46,524 --> 00:17:47,890
1452and she made this tea
1453
1454315
145500:17:48,109 --> 00:17:51,819
1456and she switched the cups
1457with the maid,
1458
1459316
146000:17:52,029 --> 00:17:53,770
1461and the maid drank it
1462and kind of fell asleep.
1463
1464317
146500:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,106
1466Now my mother's all ready.
1467
1468318
146900:17:55,324 --> 00:17:56,565
1470She took all her jewels,
1471
1472319
147300:17:56,784 --> 00:17:58,275
1474put 'em in the lining
1475of her coats.
1476
1477320
147800:17:58,494 --> 00:17:59,951
1479She put on the maid's costume.
1480
1481321
148200:18:00,162 --> 00:18:02,700
1483She jumped on her bicycle
1484and rode off.
1485
1486322
148700:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,703
1488My parents had friends
1489in England.
1490
1491323
149200:18:09,922 --> 00:18:11,629
1493So I went there.
1494
1495324
149600:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,843
1497Pre-war London
1498was a safe haven.
1499
1500325
150100:18:17,054 --> 00:18:18,966
1502Hedy spent several months there
1503
1504326
150500:18:19,181 --> 00:18:21,514
1506trying to figure out
1507her next steps.
1508
1509327
151000:18:22,727 --> 00:18:24,468
1511We one day went to a movie.
1512
1513328
151400:18:24,687 --> 00:18:27,145
1515I forgot even what it was.
1516
1517329
151800:18:27,356 --> 00:18:29,973
1519And they happened
1520to have a lion.
1521
1522330
152300:18:30,192 --> 00:18:33,276
1524You know, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
1525
1526331
152700:18:33,487 --> 00:18:35,524
1528So I said,
1529"Oh I want to be in that!"
1530
1531332
153200:18:36,991 --> 00:18:40,530
1533She quickly found
1534an American film agent.
1535
1536333
153700:18:41,662 --> 00:18:44,279
1538Somebody took me to a hotel
1539
1540334
154100:18:44,498 --> 00:18:46,740
1542and there was
1543a little man there.
1544
1545335
154600:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,370
1547I didn't know who he was,
1548what he was.
1549
1550336
155100:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,703
1552I couldn't speak English,
1553obviously.
1554
1555337
155600:18:50,921 --> 00:18:52,287
1557Louis B. Mayer
1558was the little man.
1559
1560338
156100:18:52,506 --> 00:18:53,121
1562That was Louis B. Mayer?
1563
1564339
156500:18:53,341 --> 00:18:55,173
1566With his entourage, yeah.
1567
1568340
156900:18:56,510 --> 00:18:58,297
1570Louis B. Mayer,
1571of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
1572
1573341
157400:18:58,512 --> 00:19:02,347
1575had come to Europe to buy up
1576all the actors and actresses
1577
1578342
157900:19:02,558 --> 00:19:04,675
1580who were escaping Nazi Germany.
1581
1582343
158300:19:04,894 --> 00:19:07,261
1584He figured he could take them
1585back to Hollywood
1586
1587344
158800:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,645
1589and enslave them in
1590his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer empire
1591
1592345
159300:19:11,859 --> 00:19:14,021
1594for a cheap price.
1595
1596346
159700:19:14,236 --> 00:19:18,697
1598He offered her $125 a week
1599and reminded her
1600
1601347
160200:19:18,908 --> 00:19:21,696
1603that she had to keep
1604her clothes on.
1605
1606348
160700:19:21,911 --> 00:19:24,278
1608And she said, "I'm sorry,
1609that's not good enough,"
1610
1611349
161200:19:24,497 --> 00:19:25,783
1613and walked out.
1614
1615350
161600:19:25,998 --> 00:19:27,489
1617She impressed him, I'm sure.
1618
1619351
162000:19:27,708 --> 00:19:30,951
1621People didn't usually turn down
1622Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
1623
1624352
162500:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,295
1626But minutes
1627after she walked out,
1628
1629353
163000:19:34,507 --> 00:19:35,793
1631she had second thoughts
1632
1633354
163400:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,842
1635and quickly booked passage
1636on the Normandie,
1637
1638355
163900:19:39,053 --> 00:19:42,171
1640the ship Mayer was sailing
1641back to New York.
1642
1643356
164400:19:45,267 --> 00:19:47,133
1645She, I think,
1646probably rather cleverly
1647
1648357
164900:19:47,353 --> 00:19:50,266
1650made sure that she saw him
1651about the decks
1652
1653358
165400:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,063
1655in her tennis clothes
1656and so forth,
1657
1658359
165900:19:52,274 --> 00:19:53,390
1660in her bathing suit.
1661
1662360
166300:19:56,112 --> 00:19:58,320
1664On the first
1665or second night out,
1666
1667361
166800:19:58,531 --> 00:20:02,024
1669Hedy went
1670to her very modest cabin
1671
1672362
167300:20:02,243 --> 00:20:06,283
1674and pulled out
1675her designer couturier gown
1676
1677363
167800:20:06,497 --> 00:20:10,411
1679and she put on
1680the last baubles that she owned
1681
1682364
168300:20:10,626 --> 00:20:12,743
1684and she walked
1685through the dining room
1686
1687365
168800:20:12,962 --> 00:20:16,797
1689of the Normandie,
1690past Louis B. Mayer's table.
1691
1692366
169300:20:20,302 --> 00:20:23,466
1694There's Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1695sitting right there,
1696
1697367
169800:20:23,681 --> 00:20:27,140
1699and his eyes are glued
1700to Hedy Lamarr,
1701
1702368
170300:20:27,351 --> 00:20:30,014
1704as are the eyes
1705of every man and woman
1706
1707369
170800:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,562
1709in that dining room.
1710
1711370
171200:20:32,773 --> 00:20:36,312
1713And Louis B. Mayer knew
1714he had to have her.
1715
1716371
171700:20:36,527 --> 00:20:37,768
1718He snapped his fingers
1719
1720372
172100:20:37,987 --> 00:20:40,445
1722and I didn't know why,
1723I didn't know what...
1724
1725373
172600:20:40,656 --> 00:20:44,445
1727all of a sudden
1728I got $500 every week.
1729
1730374
173100:20:44,660 --> 00:20:47,198
1732Hedy Kiesler,
1733Hedy Kiesler, Kiesler.
1734
1735375
173600:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,530
1737We gotta do something
1738about the name.
1739
1740376
174100:20:49,749 --> 00:20:52,617
1742So, Louis B. Mayer's wife
1743was there and she said,
1744
1745377
174600:20:52,835 --> 00:20:54,747
1747"Well, Barbara La Marr
1748is one of my favorites.
1749
1750378
175100:20:54,962 --> 00:20:56,669
1752Why not Hedy Lamarr?"
1753
1754379
175500:20:56,881 --> 00:20:58,167
1756Lamarr, the sea, perfect.
1757
1758380
175900:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,589
1760Let's be Hedy Lamarr.
1761
1762381
176300:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,211
1764She didn't speak
1765a word of English.
1766
1767382
176800:21:04,430 --> 00:21:07,138
1769She learned those few lines
1770on the boat to convince
1771
1772383
177300:21:07,349 --> 00:21:09,636
1774Louis B. Mayer that he should
1775hire her as an actress.
1776
1777384
177800:21:11,145 --> 00:21:12,932
1779She created her own reality,
1780
1781385
178200:21:13,147 --> 00:21:14,638
1783and I find that
1784really fascinating.
1785
1786386
178700:21:16,650 --> 00:21:18,607
1788You know, when things
1789don't come easy
1790
1791387
179200:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,230
1793figure out why...
1794
1795388
179600:21:20,446 --> 00:21:23,063
1797and then do something about it.
1798
1799389
180000:21:23,282 --> 00:21:25,649
1801And if people...
1802walk over you
1803
1804390
180500:21:25,868 --> 00:21:27,404
1806then don't let them!
1807
1808391
180900:21:29,497 --> 00:21:31,363
1810She stepped off
1811the ship in New York
1812
1813392
181400:21:31,582 --> 00:21:34,120
1815to crowds
1816of flashing light bulbs
1817
1818393
181900:21:34,335 --> 00:21:39,126
1820and reporters firing questions
1821at her as Hedy Lamarr,
1822
1823394
182400:21:39,340 --> 00:21:42,128
1825the latest discovery
1826of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
1827
1828395
182900:21:49,558 --> 00:21:50,639
1830Hello, everybody,
1831
1832396
183300:21:50,851 --> 00:21:52,808
1834this is Hedda Hopper
1835reporting to you from Hollywood,
1836
1837397
183800:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,478
1839that fabulous place
1840where everyone wants to live
1841
1842398
184300:21:55,689 --> 00:21:56,725
1844but seldom does.
1845
1846399
184700:22:01,570 --> 00:22:03,937
1848In Hollywood,
1849she was kicking her heels
1850
1851400
185200:22:04,156 --> 00:22:07,115
1853and listening to music
1854and being free.
1855
1856401
185700:22:09,453 --> 00:22:12,161
1858She was a little bit worried
1859because the contract,
1860
1861402
186200:22:12,373 --> 00:22:14,990
1863it had kind of a trial time
1864before they used her,
1865
1866403
186700:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,292
1868and she wasn't getting
1869any movies or parts
1870
1871404
187200:22:17,503 --> 00:22:20,996
1873and she was very insecure
1874that they didn't want her,
1875
1876405
187700:22:21,215 --> 00:22:22,547
1878especially since
1879she made Ecstasy
1880
1881406
188200:22:22,758 --> 00:22:26,342
1883and that was kind of
1884a black mark on her.
1885
1886407
188700:22:26,554 --> 00:22:29,012
1888Right from the beginning,
1889one of her first interviews
1890
1891408
189200:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,136
1893is with Hedda Hopper, who was
1894the famous gossip columnist.
1895
1896409
189700:22:32,351 --> 00:22:34,388
1898That's where she does
1899her greatest acting
1900
1901410
190200:22:34,603 --> 00:22:37,220
1903is for Hedda Hopper,
1904crying tears
1905
1906411
190700:22:37,439 --> 00:22:39,476
1908about how she was forced
1909into this nude scene
1910
1911412
191200:22:39,692 --> 00:22:43,185
1913and somehow perverted
1914by these European filmmakers
1915
1916413
191700:22:43,404 --> 00:22:46,272
1918who have no morals whatsoever.
1919
1920414
192100:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,992
1922And then,
1923my mother went to a party
1924
1925415
192600:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,743
1927by chance one night,
1928and Charles Boyer was there
1929
1930416
193100:22:55,958 --> 00:22:57,540
1932and he was smitten by her.
1933
1934417
193500:22:57,751 --> 00:23:00,789
1936And he said,
1937"Can you be in my movie?"
1938
1939418
194000:23:01,005 --> 00:23:04,339
1941"Oh, no, no, no, my English
1942isn't good enough, no."
1943
1944419
194500:23:04,550 --> 00:23:07,258
1946And he took her hand, kissed it,
1947he said, "I'll hold your hand
1948
1949420
195000:23:07,469 --> 00:23:08,926
1951through the whole film."
1952
1953421
195400:23:09,138 --> 00:23:10,219
1955- "You will?"
1956- "Yes."
1957
1958422
195900:23:10,431 --> 00:23:11,763
1960"All right, I'll do it."
1961
1962423
196300:23:11,974 --> 00:23:13,340
1964So, that's how that started.
1965
1966424
196700:23:19,315 --> 00:23:22,524
1968Charles Boyer
1969was a diamond thief.
1970
1971425
197200:23:22,735 --> 00:23:24,852
1973She had diamonds.
1974
1975426
197600:23:25,070 --> 00:23:30,111
1977He thought she was a wealthy,
1978noble-born French woman.
1979
1980427
198100:23:30,326 --> 00:23:33,160
1982He didn't realize that she was
1983another scamp like him
1984
1985428
198600:23:33,370 --> 00:23:34,702
1987from the streets of Paris.
1988
1989429
199000:23:37,207 --> 00:23:39,745
1991There's a wonderful line
1992in the film where he says,
1993
1994430
199500:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,496
1996"What did you do before?"
1997
1998431
199900:23:41,712 --> 00:23:43,920
2000Before what?
2001
2002432
200300:23:44,131 --> 00:23:45,793
2004Before the jewels.
2005
2006433
200700:23:46,008 --> 00:23:48,341
2008I wanted them.
2009
2010434
201100:23:48,552 --> 00:23:50,384
2012That film made her
2013a star instantly.
2014
2015435
201600:23:53,474 --> 00:23:57,013
2017When I was a kid,
2018I saw her in Algiers,
2019
2020436
202100:23:57,227 --> 00:23:59,219
2022I said,
2023"I'm gonna get to Hollywood
2024
2025437
202600:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,350
2027and I'm gonna marry her.
2028
2029438
203000:24:01,565 --> 00:24:03,227
2031And if I don't get to marry her,
2032
2033439
203400:24:03,442 --> 00:24:04,432
2035I'll get to buy her dinner
2036
2037440
203800:24:04,652 --> 00:24:06,063
2039and feel her up under the table.
2040
2041441
204200:24:06,278 --> 00:24:07,143
2043Whatever I can get."
2044
2045442
204600:24:10,366 --> 00:24:14,280
2047After Algiers,
2048Hedy Lamarr was on the cover
2049
2050443
205100:24:14,495 --> 00:24:16,157
2052of all the movie magazines.
2053
2054444
205500:24:16,372 --> 00:24:19,706
2056Suddenly,
2057you have in Hollywood,
2058
2059445
206000:24:19,917 --> 00:24:23,501
2061a lot of women parting
2062their hair in the middle,
2063
2064446
206500:24:23,712 --> 00:24:26,125
2066darkening it,
2067and changing their makeup
2068
2069447
207000:24:26,340 --> 00:24:29,799
2071to be little Hedy Lamarrs.
2072
2073448
207400:24:30,010 --> 00:24:32,002
2075Every woman wanted to be Hedy
2076
2077449
207800:24:32,221 --> 00:24:34,258
2079and every man
2080wanted to date her.
2081
2082450
208300:24:34,473 --> 00:24:37,261
2084She seduced men and women.
2085
2086451
208700:24:37,476 --> 00:24:41,015
2088She was able to meet
2089artists, directors,
2090
2091452
209200:24:41,230 --> 00:24:44,439
2093brilliant actors,
2094the greats at that time.
2095
2096453
209700:24:45,985 --> 00:24:48,227
2098Including Kennedy,
2099whom I knew very well.
2100
2101454
210200:24:48,445 --> 00:24:49,185
2103Oh really?
2104
2105455
210600:24:49,405 --> 00:24:51,362
2107Yeah,
2108before he became president.
2109
2110456
211100:24:51,573 --> 00:24:53,109
2112He asked me out.
2113
2114457
211500:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,442
2116So he said,
2117"What can I bring you?"
2118
2119458
212000:24:55,661 --> 00:24:57,823
2121and I said, "Oranges,"
2122because...
2123
2124459
212500:24:58,038 --> 00:25:01,031
2126I lack vitamin C.
2127
2128460
212900:25:01,250 --> 00:25:02,457
2130Would you believe
2131any other person
2132
2133461
213400:25:02,668 --> 00:25:05,001
2135would've asked, "Oranges"?
2136
2137462
213800:25:05,212 --> 00:25:06,293
2139That's the way I am.
2140
2141463
214200:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,167
2143A fool!
2144
2145464
214600:25:08,382 --> 00:25:10,294
2147No matter what,
2148you expect Hedy Lamarr
2149
2150465
215100:25:10,509 --> 00:25:13,377
2152to be glamorous, sophisticated.
2153
2154466
215500:25:13,595 --> 00:25:15,552
2156Quite the opposite,
2157she loved picnics,
2158
2159467
216000:25:15,764 --> 00:25:17,926
2161she loved to go
2162scavenger hunting,
2163
2164468
216500:25:18,142 --> 00:25:19,633
2166she loved to play Charades.
2167
2168469
216900:25:19,852 --> 00:25:24,142
2170She wasn't very good at it,
2171but she had a great time.
2172
2173470
217400:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,097
2175You know, no pretenses.
2176
2177471
217800:25:26,316 --> 00:25:28,273
2179She was fun to be with.
2180
2181472
218200:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,145
2183At that point,
2184she could have married anyone.
2185
2186473
218700:25:32,364 --> 00:25:33,821
2188She surprised her fans
2189
2190474
219100:25:34,033 --> 00:25:36,320
2192by choosing
2193a portly screenwriter
2194
2195475
219600:25:36,535 --> 00:25:39,619
2197and producer
2198named Gene Markey.
2199
2200476
220100:25:42,041 --> 00:25:44,624
2202Her letters show she was
2203madly in love with him.
2204
2205477
220600:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,794
2207"Dearest Mommy,
2208I never would have thought
2209
2210478
221100:25:49,006 --> 00:25:51,669
2212that I could ever fall
2213in love again.
2214
2215479
221600:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,171
2217Gene has an unbelievable number
2218of traits
2219
2220480
222100:25:54,386 --> 00:25:56,218
2222in common with Dad.
2223
2224481
222500:25:56,430 --> 00:25:59,639
2226So considerate, it's touching."
2227
2228482
222900:25:59,850 --> 00:26:03,093
2230He promised Hedy he'd write
2231screenplays with her.
2232
2233483
223400:26:03,312 --> 00:26:05,679
2235They even adopted a son.
2236
2237484
223800:26:05,898 --> 00:26:08,015
2239But within months
2240of their marriage,
2241
2242485
224300:26:08,233 --> 00:26:11,897
2244he began dating
2245other beautiful actresses.
2246
2247486
224800:26:12,112 --> 00:26:14,104
2249Hedy was heartbroken.
2250
2251487
225200:26:14,323 --> 00:26:17,657
2253She said people
2254never got past her face.
2255
2256488
225700:26:17,868 --> 00:26:20,201
2258You never knew
2259if they loved you
2260
2261489
226200:26:20,412 --> 00:26:23,155
2263or their fantasy of you.
2264
2265490
226600:26:23,373 --> 00:26:25,911
2267"A man does not try
2268to find out what is inside.
2269
2270491
227100:26:26,126 --> 00:26:28,584
2272He does not try
2273to scratch the surface.
2274
2275492
227600:26:28,796 --> 00:26:31,288
2277If he did, he might find
2278something much more beautiful
2279
2280493
228100:26:31,507 --> 00:26:34,591
2282than the shape of a nose
2283or the color of an eye."
2284
2285494
228600:26:37,888 --> 00:26:39,754
2287Only a year after Algiers,
2288
2289495
229000:26:39,973 --> 00:26:42,215
2291not only was
2292her marriage failing,
2293
2294496
229500:26:42,434 --> 00:26:45,427
2296her career was in trouble
2297as well.
2298
2299497
230000:26:45,646 --> 00:26:48,935
2301She was terribly unhappy
2302with the films she did for MGM
2303
2304498
230500:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,687
2306because Louis B. Mayer
2307gave her bad scripts
2308
2309499
231000:26:51,902 --> 00:26:54,269
2311and the films did nothing.
2312
2313500
231400:26:54,488 --> 00:26:56,354
2315You never got very much
2316out of this, did you?
2317
2318501
231900:26:56,573 --> 00:26:57,654
2320I got plenty.
2321
2322502
232300:26:57,866 --> 00:27:00,734
2324All I asked for,
2325except the frosting.
2326
2327503
232800:27:00,953 --> 00:27:02,569
2329Hedy actually went
2330to Louis B. Mayer
2331
2332504
233300:27:02,788 --> 00:27:05,747
2334and petitioned for a role
2335in Boom Town.
2336
2337505
233800:27:05,958 --> 00:27:07,870
2339I'm going to do it
2340because I want to.
2341
2342506
234300:27:08,085 --> 00:27:09,246
2344It was a small part,
2345
2346507
234700:27:09,461 --> 00:27:12,545
2348and Louis B. Mayer,
2349at first, was reluctant.
2350
2351508
235200:27:12,756 --> 00:27:13,917
2353Okay, stranger.
2354
2355509
235600:27:17,219 --> 00:27:20,303
2357Boom Town was a huge,
2358tremendous success
2359
2360510
236100:27:20,514 --> 00:27:22,096
2362for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
2363
2364511
236500:27:22,307 --> 00:27:23,093
2366After Boom Town,
2367
2368512
236900:27:23,308 --> 00:27:27,052
2370Hedy Lamarr's career was secure.
2371
2372513
237300:27:27,271 --> 00:27:32,107
2374It's almost unfathomable
2375how busy she was in 1940.
2376
2377514
237800:27:35,279 --> 00:27:39,148
2379They were expected to do
2380what the studio wanted.
2381
2382515
238300:27:39,366 --> 00:27:42,325
2384Bette Davis described it
2385as a "slave system."
2386
2387516
238800:27:42,536 --> 00:27:44,152
2389And they were owned
2390in the sense
2391
2392517
239300:27:44,371 --> 00:27:47,114
2394that they had signed contracts
2395
2396518
239700:27:47,332 --> 00:27:51,451
2398that bound them to studios
2399for seven-year periods.
2400
2401519
240200:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,332
2403My mother was worked
2404like a racehorse.
2405
2406520
240700:27:53,547 --> 00:27:56,164
2408She had to run fast
2409all the time.
2410
2411521
241200:27:56,383 --> 00:27:58,375
2413They gave her pills
2414to wake her up to perform.
2415
2416522
241700:27:58,594 --> 00:28:01,678
2418Pretty sure it was
2419some form of speed.
2420
2421523
242200:28:01,889 --> 00:28:05,303
2423And then, to make them sleep,
2424they gave them sleeping pills.
2425
2426524
242700:28:07,269 --> 00:28:09,477
2428They worked six days a week.
2429
2430525
243100:28:09,688 --> 00:28:12,271
2432Women really had to get
2433to the studio early
2434
2435526
243600:28:12,482 --> 00:28:14,974
2437because they had to have
2438their hair done,
2439
2440527
244100:28:15,194 --> 00:28:18,437
2442their makeup put on,
2443their costumes put on.
2444
2445528
244600:28:18,655 --> 00:28:22,274
2447And then, you know,
2448they worked into the night.
2449
2450529
245100:28:22,492 --> 00:28:24,404
2452And here's what's remarkable.
2453
2454530
245500:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,907
2456After a grueling day
2457on the set,
2458
2459531
246000:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,829
2461Hedy didn't go to bed.
2462
2463532
246400:28:29,041 --> 00:28:30,828
2465She wasn't socializing.
2466
2467533
246800:28:31,043 --> 00:28:34,286
2469Hedy was at home working
2470on her latest invention.
2471
2472534
247300:28:39,176 --> 00:28:41,168
2474Inventing was her hobby.
2475
2476535
247700:28:41,386 --> 00:28:44,845
2478She not only had
2479a complete inventing table
2480
2481536
248200:28:45,057 --> 00:28:46,844
2483set up in her house,
2484
2485537
248600:28:47,059 --> 00:28:50,928
2487but Howard Hughes gave her
2488a small version
2489
2490538
249100:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,638
2492of the set of equipment
2493which he had in the trailer
2494
2495539
249600:28:53,857 --> 00:28:56,190
2497where she stayed
2498in between takes
2499
2500540
250100:28:56,401 --> 00:28:57,767
2502in her motion pictures.
2503
2504541
250500:28:59,488 --> 00:29:01,480
2506When Hedy first met
2507Howard Hughes,
2508
2509542
251000:29:01,698 --> 00:29:04,065
2511he was dating
2512every Hollywood star,
2513
2514543
251500:29:04,284 --> 00:29:06,321
2516and she did date him.
2517
2518544
251900:29:06,536 --> 00:29:10,200
2520Howard Hughes, of course,
2521was a great airplane designer,
2522
2523545
252400:29:10,415 --> 00:29:12,281
2525so probably they had
2526
2527546
252800:29:12,501 --> 00:29:15,585
2529a compatible spirit
2530with one another.
2531
2532547
253300:29:15,796 --> 00:29:18,504
2534It was definitely cerebral
2535because she said
2536
2537548
253800:29:18,715 --> 00:29:21,332
2539he was the worst lover
2540she ever had.
2541
2542549
254300:29:22,844 --> 00:29:24,255
2544Howard Hughes wanted to build
2545
2546550
254700:29:24,471 --> 00:29:26,713
2548the fastest planes
2549in the world
2550
2551551
255200:29:26,932 --> 00:29:29,640
2553so he could sell them
2554to the Air Force.
2555
2556552
255700:29:29,851 --> 00:29:33,686
2558She was fascinated by his mind
2559and his factories,
2560
2561553
256200:29:33,897 --> 00:29:35,980
2563and she wanted to go and see
2564
2565554
256600:29:36,191 --> 00:29:37,602
2567where everything
2568was being made and built,
2569
2570555
257100:29:37,818 --> 00:29:39,480
2572and she met all the scientists.
2573
2574556
257500:29:39,695 --> 00:29:40,936
2576He said to her,
2577
2578557
257900:29:41,154 --> 00:29:43,396
2580"Anything you want my scientists
2581to do for you,
2582
2583558
258400:29:43,615 --> 00:29:46,278
2585just ask 'em
2586and they will do it."
2587
2588559
258900:29:48,453 --> 00:29:50,035
2590He relied on me.
2591
2592560
259300:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,081
2594I thought the aeroplanes
2595were too slow,
2596
2597561
259800:29:53,292 --> 00:29:55,124
2599so I decided that's not right.
2600
2601562
260200:29:55,335 --> 00:29:58,294
2603They shouldn't be square,
2604the wings...
2605
2606563
260700:29:58,505 --> 00:30:00,292
2608So I bought a book of fish
2609
2610564
261100:30:00,507 --> 00:30:02,169
2612and I bought a book of birds
2613
2614565
261500:30:02,384 --> 00:30:04,341
2616and then used the fastest bird,
2617
2618566
261900:30:04,553 --> 00:30:07,136
2620connected it with
2621the fastest fish.
2622
2623567
262400:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,464
2625I drew it together
2626and showed it to Howard Hughes
2627
2628568
262900:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,925
2630and he said,
2631"You're a genius."
2632
2633569
263400:30:12,144 --> 00:30:13,180
2635- You did?
2636- Yep.
2637
2638570
263900:30:15,522 --> 00:30:16,353
2640Yeah.
2641
2642571
264300:30:20,402 --> 00:30:21,938
2644Very strange person that was.
2645
2646572
264700:30:22,154 --> 00:30:23,315
2648Very brilliant.
2649
2650573
265100:30:23,530 --> 00:30:25,897
2652But very misunderstood as well.
2653
2654574
265500:30:27,451 --> 00:30:30,694
2656She invented,
2657during that period,
2658
2659575
266000:30:30,912 --> 00:30:34,952
2661a tablet that would fizz up
2662and make a cola.
2663
2664576
266500:30:35,167 --> 00:30:39,127
2666I had two chemists Howard
2667Hughes gave me to do that.
2668
2669577
267000:30:39,338 --> 00:30:41,330
2671You know, during the war
2672nobody had Coca-Cola
2673
2674578
267500:30:41,548 --> 00:30:44,712
2676and I wanted to compress it
2677into a cube
2678
2679579
268000:30:44,926 --> 00:30:48,260
2681so that servicemen
2682and factory people,
2683
2684580
268500:30:48,472 --> 00:30:52,716
2686all they had to
2687have was water and put it in.
2688
2689581
269000:30:52,934 --> 00:30:55,142
2691But I didn't realize
2692that every state
2693
2694582
269500:30:55,354 --> 00:30:58,438
2696has different
2697strengths of water,
2698
2699583
270000:30:58,648 --> 00:31:01,265
2701so it dissolved on the bottom,
2702on top, in the middle.
2703
2704584
270500:31:01,485 --> 00:31:03,101
2706It was one of my boo boos.
2707
2708585
270900:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,403
2710I didn't do that right.
2711
2712586
271300:31:05,614 --> 00:31:08,197
2714But I don't have to work
2715on ideas.
2716
2717587
271800:31:08,408 --> 00:31:09,865
2719They come naturally.
2720
2721588
272200:31:12,412 --> 00:31:14,495
2723What must have been going
2724through the mind
2725
2726589
272700:31:14,706 --> 00:31:16,322
2728of this young woman.
2729
2730590
273100:31:16,541 --> 00:31:21,286
2732She's become
2733a huge international film star.
2734
2735591
273600:31:21,505 --> 00:31:24,088
2737But at the very same time,
2738her country,
2739
2740592
274100:31:24,299 --> 00:31:28,168
2742the past as she has known it,
2743has been eliminated.
2744
2745593
274600:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,093
2747In 1940,
2748the war was raging in Europe
2749
2750594
275100:31:33,308 --> 00:31:36,221
2752and the United States
2753was a neutral country,
2754
2755595
275600:31:36,436 --> 00:31:38,143
2757and Hitler
2758was basically taking over
2759
2760596
276100:31:38,355 --> 00:31:40,017
2762all of Western Europe
2763
2764597
276500:31:40,232 --> 00:31:42,599
2766and threatening
2767to take over Great Britain.
2768
2769598
277000:31:42,818 --> 00:31:44,229
2771If only I could do something.
2772
2773599
277400:31:44,444 --> 00:31:46,606
2775Oh, darling,
2776you've done so much already.
2777
2778600
277900:31:46,822 --> 00:31:50,987
2780You almost made me forget
2781about being afraid.
2782
2783601
278400:31:51,201 --> 00:31:53,614
2785Oh, I am afraid now.
2786
2787602
278800:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,405
2789She did have a secret.
2790
2791603
279200:31:57,624 --> 00:32:00,207
2793When Hedy arrived
2794at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
2795
2796604
279700:32:00,419 --> 00:32:04,459
2798Louis B. Mayer specifically
2799ordered all of his stars
2800
2801605
280200:32:04,673 --> 00:32:08,087
2803not to talk about
2804their religious backgrounds.
2805
2806606
280700:32:08,301 --> 00:32:09,917
2808People would say,
2809"You're Jewish,"
2810
2811607
281200:32:10,137 --> 00:32:13,005
2813and I'm like, "No,"
2814and I called Mom and said,
2815
2816608
281700:32:13,223 --> 00:32:14,885
2818"Mom, are we Jewish,"
2819and she said,
2820
2821609
282200:32:15,100 --> 00:32:17,217
2823"Don't be ridiculous."
2824
2825610
282600:32:19,312 --> 00:32:23,727
2827I never heard the word "Jewish"
2828from my mother's lips.
2829
2830611
283100:32:23,942 --> 00:32:28,403
2832The Jewish part of her,
2833she just left behind.
2834
2835612
283600:32:30,407 --> 00:32:34,742
2837She was probably afraid
2838for many reasons.
2839
2840613
284100:32:34,953 --> 00:32:36,615
2842And I could feel it,
2843
2844614
284500:32:36,830 --> 00:32:40,073
2846I could see that
2847she was protecting herself.
2848
2849615
285000:32:41,710 --> 00:32:43,246
2851I became a manicurist.
2852
2853616
285400:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,294
2855That's how I met Hedy.
2856
2857617
285800:32:46,923 --> 00:32:49,711
2859I told her that I survived
2860the war with camps
2861
2862618
286300:32:49,926 --> 00:32:52,259
2864and running for my life.
2865
2866619
286700:32:53,722 --> 00:32:56,590
2868We talked about
2869what was going on
2870
2871620
287200:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,596
2873and how I come to America.
2874
2875621
287600:33:01,313 --> 00:33:05,023
2877I find myself
2878on an American ship.
2879
2880622
288100:33:05,233 --> 00:33:09,398
2882I was shaking with fear
2883because we heard noises.
2884
2885623
288600:33:11,031 --> 00:33:14,274
2887We were attacked
2888by the Nazi submarines.
2889
2890624
289100:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,445
2892I remember saying,
2893"Oh, dear God,
2894
2895625
289600:33:18,663 --> 00:33:23,283
2897please don't kill me now,
2898let me see America."
2899
2900626
290100:33:25,712 --> 00:33:28,204
2902At the time,
2903Hedy's mother was preparing
2904
2905627
290600:33:28,423 --> 00:33:31,712
2907to make the treacherous
2908Atlantic crossing herself.
2909
2910628
291100:33:31,927 --> 00:33:35,386
2912She'd fled Austria
2913and gotten as far as London
2914
2915629
291600:33:35,597 --> 00:33:39,181
2917where she and Hedy
2918were able to write each other.
2919
2920630
292100:33:39,392 --> 00:33:42,476
2922"Mommy, my mind
2923is so preoccupied
2924
2925631
292600:33:42,687 --> 00:33:45,395
2927and I would love it
2928if you could come immediately
2929
2930632
293100:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,564
2932since the times,
2933they are very uncertain.
2934
2935633
293600:33:49,694 --> 00:33:51,777
2937I have been listening
2938to the radio day and night
2939
2940634
294100:33:51,988 --> 00:33:53,274
2942for over a week,
2943
2944635
294500:33:53,490 --> 00:33:55,152
2946and I've gotten
2947barely any sleep."
2948
2949636
295000:33:55,367 --> 00:33:56,483
2951Vivid pictures
2952of a naval action
2953
2954637
295500:33:56,701 --> 00:33:58,112
2956have just been released.
2957
2958638
295900:33:58,328 --> 00:34:01,366
2960One day,
2961in the summer of 1940,
2962
2963639
296400:34:01,581 --> 00:34:04,324
2965a shipload of children
2966was torpedoed.
2967
2968640
296900:34:04,543 --> 00:34:08,412
2970All hands lost
2971including 83 children.
2972
2973641
297400:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,374
2975At the time,
2976the German U-boats
2977
2978642
297900:34:13,593 --> 00:34:17,257
2980were on the verge
2981of winning the war.
2982
2983643
298400:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,088
2985They seemed to be unsinkable
2986
2987644
298800:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,219
2989because they easily
2990outmaneuvered
2991
2992645
299300:34:21,434 --> 00:34:25,178
2994the outdated British torpedoes.
2995
2996646
299700:34:25,397 --> 00:34:30,188
2998In times of crisis,
2999most of us feel powerless,
3000
3001647
300200:34:30,402 --> 00:34:32,485
3003but a few discover
3004in themselves
3005
3006648
300700:34:32,696 --> 00:34:35,154
3008unexpected strength.
3009
3010649
301100:34:35,365 --> 00:34:38,028
3012And Hedy being Hedy,
3013she said,
3014
3015650
301600:34:38,243 --> 00:34:41,202
3017"I'm gonna do something
3018about that."
3019
3020651
302100:34:41,413 --> 00:34:43,951
3022So, in this article, Hedy says,
3023
3024652
302500:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,157
3026"I got the idea
3027for my invention
3028
3029653
303000:34:46,376 --> 00:34:48,709
3031when I tried to think
3032of some way
3033
3034654
303500:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,128
3036to even the balance
3037for the British.
3038
3039655
304000:34:51,339 --> 00:34:56,209
3041A radio-controlled torpedo
3042I thought would do it."
3043
3044656
304500:34:56,428 --> 00:34:59,387
3046A torpedo launched
3047on a given trajectory
3048
3049657
305000:34:59,598 --> 00:35:02,557
3051might need to be changed,
3052redirected.
3053
3054658
305500:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,259
3056You want, ideally,
3057your launching boat
3058
3059659
306000:35:05,478 --> 00:35:08,767
3061to communicate
3062with the torpedo.
3063
3064660
306500:35:08,982 --> 00:35:13,067
3066The problem is you can't control
3067radio communications.
3068
3069661
307000:35:13,278 --> 00:35:15,144
3071They're not secure.
3072
3073662
307400:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,821
3075Your enemy, if they're smart,
3076
3077663
307800:35:18,033 --> 00:35:21,071
3079finds the frequency with which
3080you're talking to the torpedo
3081
3082664
308300:35:21,286 --> 00:35:22,117
3084and jams it.
3085
3086665
308700:35:25,373 --> 00:35:26,580
3088Jamming.
3089
3090666
309100:35:26,791 --> 00:35:30,080
3092The Germans fill the air
3093with radio interference.
3094
3095667
309600:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,207
3097She came up with the idea
3098of a secret way
3099
3100668
310100:35:32,422 --> 00:35:34,163
3102of guiding that torpedo
3103to the target
3104
3105669
310600:35:34,382 --> 00:35:37,375
3107that couldn't be interrupted,
3108that couldn't be jammed,
3109
3110670
311100:35:37,594 --> 00:35:38,960
3112that couldn't be messed with.
3113
3114671
311500:35:39,179 --> 00:35:40,169
3116It was secret.
3117
3118672
311900:35:41,723 --> 00:35:44,887
3120Instead of just one transmit
3121frequency communicating,
3122
3123673
312400:35:45,101 --> 00:35:47,764
3125she said, "What if we changed
3126those frequencies constantly
3127
3128674
312900:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,891
3130in sync with each other?"
3131
3132675
313300:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,940
3134Frequency hopping.
3135
3136676
313700:35:53,151 --> 00:35:54,858
3138You couldn't jam it
3139because you'd only jam
3140
3141677
314200:35:55,070 --> 00:35:58,154
3143a split second of it
3144in a single frequency.
3145
3146678
314700:35:58,365 --> 00:36:00,607
3148So, frequency change,
3149frequency hop,
3150
3151679
315200:36:00,825 --> 00:36:02,157
3153frequency hop, frequency hop.
3154
3155680
315600:36:02,369 --> 00:36:05,737
3157That concept,
3158secure radio communications,
3159
3160681
316100:36:05,955 --> 00:36:07,617
3162was brilliant.
3163
3164682
316500:36:09,459 --> 00:36:11,667
3166Now there are various versions
3167of how she came up
3168
3169683
317000:36:11,878 --> 00:36:15,872
3171with her profoundly
3172original idea.
3173
3174684
317500:36:16,091 --> 00:36:19,175
3176One theory is
3177that she stole it.
3178
3179685
318000:36:19,386 --> 00:36:22,379
3181The man who championed
3182that idea was an engineer
3183
3184686
318500:36:22,597 --> 00:36:25,840
3186who once interviewed her
3187named Robert Price.
3188
3189687
319000:36:26,059 --> 00:36:29,268
3191Robert Price was a pioneer
3192in secret communications,
3193
3194688
319500:36:29,479 --> 00:36:32,017
3196and he gave me his number
3197and I called him up.
3198
3199689
320000:36:33,316 --> 00:36:34,181
3201She's an inventor
3202
3203690
320400:36:34,401 --> 00:36:38,941
3205but I don't know in what sense
3206exactly she is an inventor.
3207
3208691
320900:36:39,155 --> 00:36:39,861
3210If I want to be harsh
3211
3212692
321300:36:40,073 --> 00:36:43,532
3214I would say she was
3215a plagiarizer, you understand?
3216
3217693
321800:36:43,743 --> 00:36:44,779
3219Hedy's first husband
3220
3221694
322200:36:44,994 --> 00:36:48,487
3223was Austria's leading
3224munitions manufacturer.
3225
3226695
322700:36:48,707 --> 00:36:51,620
3228Robert Price said to me
3229that he thought
3230
3231696
323200:36:51,835 --> 00:36:54,828
3233that she just smuggled the idea
3234out of her husband's board room.
3235
3236697
323700:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,835
3238In fact, he called her
3239the Mata Hari of World War Il,
3240
3241698
324200:36:59,050 --> 00:37:02,339
3243the most notorious spy
3244who seduced men
3245
3246699
324700:37:02,554 --> 00:37:05,046
3248and got all kinds of secrets
3249out of them.
3250
3251700
325200:37:05,265 --> 00:37:08,258
3253The engineers at Mandl's firm
3254might just have known
3255
3256701
325700:37:08,476 --> 00:37:10,308
3258about the frequency hopping.
3259
3260702
326100:37:12,313 --> 00:37:15,772
3262Is that how you were aware
3263of frequency hopping?
3264
3265703
326600:37:15,984 --> 00:37:18,442
3267No. What, my husband?
3268
3269704
327000:37:18,653 --> 00:37:23,193
3271No. Nobody did that...
3272invent that before.
3273
3274705
327500:37:23,408 --> 00:37:25,274
3276I mean, I know what I did.
3277
3278706
327900:37:25,493 --> 00:37:27,860
3280I don't care
3281what other people say about me.
3282
3283707
328400:37:29,998 --> 00:37:31,705
3285The record is very clear
3286
3287708
328800:37:31,916 --> 00:37:36,752
3289that the Germans
3290had not come across the idea
3291
3292709
329300:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,751
3294that would be
3295Hedy's signal contribution,
3296
3297710
329800:37:39,966 --> 00:37:43,084
3299what she called
3300"frequency hopping."
3301
3302711
330300:37:43,303 --> 00:37:46,216
3304I don't think she was a spy.
3305
3306712
330700:37:46,431 --> 00:37:49,390
3308It was so obvious.
3309I mean they shot torpedoes
3310
3311713
331200:37:49,601 --> 00:37:52,218
3313in all directions
3314and never hit the target,
3315
3316714
331700:37:52,437 --> 00:37:55,805
3318so I invented
3319something that does.
3320
3321715
332200:37:56,024 --> 00:37:59,108
3323I mean, I can't explain.
3324I have an inventive mind.
3325
3326716
332700:38:02,405 --> 00:38:06,399
3328I think Hedy got her idea
3329from a curious coincidence
3330
3331717
333200:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,531
3333that, in 1939,
3334
3335718
333600:38:09,746 --> 00:38:12,238
3337the Philco Radio Company
3338produced
3339
3340719
334100:38:12,457 --> 00:38:14,995
3342a new top-of-the-line
3343remote control.
3344
3345720
334600:38:15,210 --> 00:38:16,997
3347There's a new gadget
3348just out, see?
3349
3350721
335100:38:17,212 --> 00:38:20,705
3352You dial your station here
3353and you hear it over there.
3354
3355722
335600:38:20,924 --> 00:38:22,586
3357- Well, where are the wires?
3358- There ain't any wires.
3359
3360723
336100:38:22,801 --> 00:38:24,337
3362That's the trick.
3363
3364724
336500:38:24,552 --> 00:38:28,171
3366We know Hedy was interested
3367in the remote control
3368
3369725
337000:38:28,389 --> 00:38:31,382
3371and how it worked
3372because the device is sketched
3373
3374726
337500:38:31,601 --> 00:38:33,968
3376in the invention notebooks.
3377
3378727
337900:38:36,105 --> 00:38:40,065
3380In here is all the evidence
3381of my mother's invention.
3382
3383728
338400:38:40,276 --> 00:38:42,142
3385It's this.
3386
3387729
338800:38:42,362 --> 00:38:45,105
3389She dialed in a radio station
3390and she said,
3391
3392730
339300:38:45,323 --> 00:38:48,532
3394"If we hop around frequencies,
3395just like I'm hopping
3396
3397731
339800:38:48,743 --> 00:38:52,953
3399around radio stations
3400on this dialer,
3401
3402732
340300:38:53,164 --> 00:38:56,874
3404when I transmit this information
3405to the torpedo,
3406
3407733
340800:38:57,085 --> 00:38:59,168
3409we can make it totally secret."
3410
3411734
341200:39:01,965 --> 00:39:04,298
3413So the Philco magic box
3414probably inspired
3415
3416735
341700:39:04,509 --> 00:39:06,091
3418the whole thing.
3419
3420736
342100:39:09,806 --> 00:39:12,765
3422The fact that she understands
3423this frequency component
3424
3425737
342600:39:12,976 --> 00:39:16,310
3427of the signal
3428and how that changes
3429
3430738
343100:39:16,521 --> 00:39:20,185
3432is, I mean, genius in a way.
3433
3434739
343500:39:22,110 --> 00:39:25,274
3436I mean, we know Thomas Edison
3437was not an engineer.
3438
3439740
344000:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,571
3441You don't have to have
3442eight years
3443
3444741
344500:39:27,782 --> 00:39:29,774
3446of a graduate degree
3447in engineering
3448
3449742
345000:39:29,993 --> 00:39:33,031
3451in order to come up
3452with something new.
3453
3454743
345500:39:33,246 --> 00:39:35,613
3456In the inventing process,
3457there is a moment
3458
3459744
346000:39:35,832 --> 00:39:39,701
3461of high lucidity,
3462of clear thinking.
3463
3464745
346500:39:39,919 --> 00:39:43,458
3466In the case of Hedy,
3467she had this lucid moment
3468
3469746
347000:39:43,673 --> 00:39:46,507
3471without knowing how she was
3472going to put it together.
3473
3474747
347500:39:46,718 --> 00:39:49,836
3476She didn't have the training
3477to make it happen.
3478
3479748
348000:39:50,054 --> 00:39:51,920
3481And she said that,
3482"The idea was mine,
3483
3484749
348500:39:52,140 --> 00:39:55,224
3486but the implementation
3487was George's."
3488
3489750
349000:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,224
3491My mother met George Antheil
3492at Janet Gaynor's party.
3493
3494751
349500:39:59,439 --> 00:40:02,477
3496And she liked
3497George Antheil a lot.
3498
3499752
350000:40:02,692 --> 00:40:04,479
3501So, when she left
3502the party early,
3503
3504753
350500:40:04,694 --> 00:40:06,310
3506she wrote her phone number
3507in lipstick
3508
3509754
351000:40:06,529 --> 00:40:09,567
3511on the windshield of his car.
3512
3513755
351400:40:09,782 --> 00:40:13,776
3515They discovered that they had
3516a great deal in common.
3517
3518756
351900:40:13,995 --> 00:40:16,282
3520At the time,
3521I think they both felt
3522
3523757
352400:40:16,497 --> 00:40:20,036
3525like they were not understood
3526for their true qualities.
3527
3528758
352900:40:20,251 --> 00:40:24,621
3530George Antheil was really quite
3531an unusual American composer,
3532
3533759
353400:40:24,839 --> 00:40:26,626
3535extremely avant-garde.
3536
3537760
353800:40:26,841 --> 00:40:29,879
3539Now musicians all over the world
3540love to play Antheil's music,
3541
3542761
354300:40:30,094 --> 00:40:32,586
3544they love to get
3545into that confrontational space
3546
3547762
354800:40:32,805 --> 00:40:33,795
3549that was his.
3550
3551763
355200:40:34,015 --> 00:40:35,506
3553He had a gun,
3554then he would pull it out
3555
3556764
355700:40:35,725 --> 00:40:37,887
3558and he'd bang it
3559down on the piano
3560
3561765
356200:40:38,102 --> 00:40:39,263
3563right at the beginning
3564of the show,
3565
3566766
356700:40:39,479 --> 00:40:40,845
3568and shout, "Lock the doors!"
3569
3570767
357100:40:41,064 --> 00:40:43,021
3572Sometimes it sounds
3573like his music is jazz
3574
3575768
357600:40:43,232 --> 00:40:44,188
3577put into a Cuisinart.
3578
3579769
358000:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,313
3581It's just, you know,
3582chopped up and there it is.
3583
3584770
358500:40:52,116 --> 00:40:53,357
3586Well, George Antheil
3587wrote a book
3588
3589771
359000:40:53,576 --> 00:40:58,116
3591called Bad Boy of Music,
3592and in chapter 32,
3593
3594772
359500:40:58,331 --> 00:41:02,200
3596"Hedy Lamarr and I invent
3597a radio torpedo."
3598
3599773
360000:41:02,418 --> 00:41:05,206
3601He says,
3602"We began talking about the war,
3603
3604774
360500:41:05,421 --> 00:41:07,162
3606which in the late summer
3607of 1940,
3608
3609775
361000:41:07,382 --> 00:41:10,090
3611was looking
3612most extremely black."
3613
3614776
361500:41:10,301 --> 00:41:11,963
3616Hedy said that she did not feel
3617comfortable
3618
3619777
362000:41:12,178 --> 00:41:14,295
3621sitting there in Hollywood
3622and making lots of money
3623
3624778
362500:41:14,514 --> 00:41:16,255
3626when things were
3627in such a state,
3628
3629779
363000:41:16,474 --> 00:41:18,932
3631and that she was thinking
3632seriously of quitting MGM
3633
3634780
363500:41:19,143 --> 00:41:21,601
3636and going to Washington D.C.
3637to offer her services
3638
3639781
364000:41:21,813 --> 00:41:24,476
3641to the newly established
3642Inventors Council.
3643
3644782
364500:41:26,401 --> 00:41:28,609
3646She was very patriotic,
3647she loved America.
3648
3649783
365000:41:28,820 --> 00:41:32,655
3651She was grateful to be here,
3652and she wanted Hitler dead.
3653
3654784
365500:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,777
3656So did George Antheil.
3657
3658785
365900:41:34,993 --> 00:41:36,859
3660George had a kid brother
366112 years younger
3662
3663786
366400:41:37,078 --> 00:41:40,071
3665whose name was Henry.
3666
3667787
366800:41:40,289 --> 00:41:44,533
36691941, he boarded a plane,
3670and moments later,
3671
3672788
367300:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,586
3674the plane was shot down
3675by two Soviet fighters.
3676
3677789
367800:41:47,797 --> 00:41:51,461
3679This is the first American
3680killed in World War Il.
3681
3682790
368300:41:53,553 --> 00:41:56,466
3684George, he was just devastated.
3685
3686791
368700:41:58,433 --> 00:42:02,347
3688He wanted revenge
3689for his brother's assassination
3690
3691792
369200:42:02,562 --> 00:42:05,555
3693and opportunity
3694with someone who knew
3695
3696793
369700:42:05,773 --> 00:42:07,639
3698what she was talking about.
3699
3700794
370100:42:09,402 --> 00:42:13,066
3702Hedy and George worked
3703on three inventions together,
3704
3705795
370600:42:13,281 --> 00:42:17,400
3707all weapons meant to help
3708the Allies fight Germany.
3709
3710796
371100:42:17,618 --> 00:42:19,905
3712I have letters
3713from George Antheil.
3714
3715797
371600:42:20,121 --> 00:42:21,828
3717In one of the letters, he wrote,
3718
3719798
372000:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,124
3721"All she wants to do
3722is stay home and invent things.
3723
3724799
372500:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,873
3726She is an incredible combination
3727of childish ignorance
3728
3729800
373000:42:29,088 --> 00:42:32,047
3731and definite flashes of genius."
3732
3733801
373400:42:33,968 --> 00:42:36,085
3735"She calls
3736in the middle of the night
3737
3738802
373900:42:36,304 --> 00:42:37,795
3740because an idea hit her."
3741
3742803
374300:42:40,266 --> 00:42:41,928
3744So, my mother was a pest.
3745
3746804
374700:42:42,143 --> 00:42:44,635
3748She had to invent,
3749she had to invent,
3750
3751805
375200:42:44,854 --> 00:42:47,938
3753and she pulled George Antheil
3754in with her.
3755
3756806
375700:42:48,149 --> 00:42:50,482
3758The most successful
3759of their inventions
3760
3761807
376200:42:50,693 --> 00:42:53,276
3763was a secret
3764communication system
3765
3766808
376700:42:53,488 --> 00:42:56,276
3768based on Hedy's idea
3769of frequency hopping.
3770
3771809
377200:42:56,491 --> 00:42:57,777
3773George is taking
3774all these notes,
3775
3776810
377700:42:57,992 --> 00:43:00,109
3778and I think there was
3779some sort of a-ha moment
3780
3781811
378200:43:00,328 --> 00:43:02,615
3783where he said,
3784"You know, I have this system,"
3785
3786812
378700:43:02,830 --> 00:43:06,119
3788I guess he got from dealing
3789with player pianos,
3790
3791813
379200:43:06,334 --> 00:43:08,701
3793"that we might be able to adapt
3794
3795814
379600:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,630
3797and make... make
3798your concept work."
3799
3800815
380100:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,627
3802George Antheil got thrown
3803out of Trenton High School
3804
3805816
380600:43:14,842 --> 00:43:16,174
3807when he was 17,
3808
3809817
381000:43:16,385 --> 00:43:19,503
3811so he had no special training
3812in engineering.
3813
3814818
381500:43:19,722 --> 00:43:23,215
3816What he did know was how
3817to synchronize player pianos.
3818
3819819
382000:43:26,104 --> 00:43:28,562
3821George's
3822most famous composition
3823
3824820
382500:43:28,773 --> 00:43:32,232
3826was for a film called
3827Ballet Mécanique.
3828
3829821
383000:43:32,443 --> 00:43:37,188
3831He scored it
3832for 16 player pianos.
3833
3834822
383500:43:37,406 --> 00:43:39,147
3836George's big realization was,
3837
3838823
383900:43:39,367 --> 00:43:41,734
3840if piano rolls
3841can activate piano keys,
3842
3843824
384400:43:41,953 --> 00:43:44,445
3845why couldn't they activate
3846radio frequencies
3847
3848825
384900:43:44,664 --> 00:43:46,951
3850in both torpedo and the ship?
3851
3852826
385300:43:48,334 --> 00:43:50,701
3854The basic idea
3855is that by using
3856
3857827
385800:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,004
3859two miniature piano rolls
3860
3861828
386200:43:54,215 --> 00:43:56,298
3863that would start
3864at the same moment
3865
3866829
386700:43:56,509 --> 00:43:59,172
3868and turn at the same speed,
3869
3870830
387100:43:59,387 --> 00:44:03,131
3872a ship and a torpedo
3873could secretly communicate
3874
3875831
387600:44:03,349 --> 00:44:06,137
3877on the same pattern
3878of frequencies.
3879
3880832
388100:44:06,352 --> 00:44:09,641
3882Ultimately, Hedy and George
3883wanted their torpedo and ship
3884
3885833
388600:44:09,856 --> 00:44:12,724
3887to communicate
3888on 88 different frequencies,
3889
3890834
389100:44:12,942 --> 00:44:14,399
3892like an encryption system,
3893basically,
3894
3895835
389600:44:14,610 --> 00:44:16,192
3897that nobody could crack.
3898
3899836
390000:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,479
3901Wonderfully clever idea.
3902
3903837
390400:44:19,699 --> 00:44:21,656
3905And the Inventors Council
3906agreed.
3907
3908838
390900:44:21,868 --> 00:44:23,700
3910The members of the National
3911Inventors Council...
3912
3913839
391400:44:23,911 --> 00:44:28,246
3915And it was a council
3916of actual engineers
3917
3918840
391900:44:28,457 --> 00:44:30,164
3920with a major inventor
3921in his own right,
3922
3923841
392400:44:30,376 --> 00:44:31,617
3925Charles Kettering,
3926
3927842
392800:44:31,836 --> 00:44:34,704
3929who was struck by the value
3930and the originality
3931
3932843
393300:44:34,922 --> 00:44:37,084
3934of Hedy and George's idea.
3935
3936844
393700:44:37,300 --> 00:44:39,212
3938So they helped George and Hedy
3939
3940845
394100:44:39,427 --> 00:44:42,795
3942by connecting them up
3943with a physicist at Caltech
3944
3945846
394600:44:43,014 --> 00:44:46,132
3947in California who was
3948an expert on electronics.
3949
3950847
395100:44:46,350 --> 00:44:47,841
3952And he presumably designed
3953
3954848
395500:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,894
3956the electronics part
3957of this device.
3958
3959849
396000:44:51,105 --> 00:44:54,815
3961The day came
3962when this invention
3963
3964850
396500:44:55,026 --> 00:44:56,358
3966was issued a full patent.
3967
3968851
396900:45:01,365 --> 00:45:04,073
3970Hedy and George
3971donated their invention
3972
3973852
397400:45:04,285 --> 00:45:06,823
3975to the National Inventors
3976Council,
3977
3978853
397900:45:07,038 --> 00:45:08,870
3980but it was generally understood
3981
3982854
398300:45:09,081 --> 00:45:11,448
3984that if the military
3985used an invention,
3986
3987855
398800:45:11,667 --> 00:45:13,579
3989the inventors would be paid.
3990
3991856
399200:45:15,838 --> 00:45:18,000
3993They gave it to the Navy,
3994
3995857
399600:45:18,216 --> 00:45:22,005
3997and as George Antheil
3998liked to tell the story later,
3999
4000858
400100:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,007
4002I went in to see the Navy Brass
4003
4004859
400500:45:24,222 --> 00:45:27,010
4006and they threw the patent
4007on the desk and said,
4008
4009860
401000:45:27,225 --> 00:45:28,261
4011"What do you want to do,
4012
4013861
401400:45:28,476 --> 00:45:31,014
4015put a player piano in a torpedo?
4016
4017862
401800:45:31,229 --> 00:45:32,720
4019Get out of here!"
4020
4021863
402200:45:33,981 --> 00:45:35,142
4023And that was that.
4024
4025864
402600:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,520
4027Sons of bitches.
4028
4029865
403000:45:37,735 --> 00:45:38,646
4031Shame.
4032
4033866
403400:45:38,861 --> 00:45:39,942
4035Shame on them.
4036
4037867
403800:45:40,154 --> 00:45:42,362
4039Well, that's why
4040I was in the Army,
4041
4042868
404300:45:42,573 --> 00:45:44,986
4044because the Navy
4045was never that bright.
4046
4047869
404800:45:55,753 --> 00:45:58,245
4049After the Navy
4050rejected their invention,
4051
4052870
405300:45:58,464 --> 00:46:01,423
4054Hedy wanted to continue
4055developing it.
4056
4057871
405800:46:01,634 --> 00:46:04,251
4059But George,
4060who always had bills to pay,
4061
4062872
406300:46:04,470 --> 00:46:07,258
4064wasn't interested.
4065
4066873
406700:46:07,473 --> 00:46:09,465
4068I think George was very proud
4069that he had done it,
4070
4071874
407200:46:09,684 --> 00:46:12,176
4073but I think he just got over it.
4074
4075875
407600:46:12,395 --> 00:46:13,681
4077I think that for Hedy,
4078
4079876
408000:46:13,896 --> 00:46:17,139
4081she saw it as perhaps
4082her ticket to be recognized
4083
4084877
408500:46:17,358 --> 00:46:20,226
4086for the brilliant woman
4087that she was.
4088
4089878
409000:46:25,533 --> 00:46:29,072
4091And the patent, like all things
4092submitted to the military,
4093
4094879
409500:46:29,287 --> 00:46:32,200
4096was put in a safe somewhere
4097and labeled Top Secret.
4098
4099880
410000:46:32,415 --> 00:46:34,327
4101So it disappeared from the world
4102
4103881
410400:46:34,542 --> 00:46:36,283
4105for the rest of the war.
4106
4107882
410800:46:41,132 --> 00:46:43,966
4109The Navy basically told her,
4110
4111883
411200:46:44,176 --> 00:46:48,136
4113"You know, you'd be helping
4114the war a lot more, little lady,
4115
4116884
411700:46:48,347 --> 00:46:50,805
4118if you got out
4119and sold war bonds
4120
4121885
412200:46:51,017 --> 00:46:52,349
4123rather than sat around
4124
4125886
412600:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,394
4127trying to invent
4128new kinds of torpedoes.
4129
4130887
413100:46:55,604 --> 00:46:57,220
4132Leave that to the experts.
4133
4134888
413500:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,683
4136Get out there
4137and raise money."
4138
4139889
414000:47:00,901 --> 00:47:04,986
4141You don't get to be
4142Hedy Lamarr and smart.
4143
4144890
414500:47:05,197 --> 00:47:06,062
4146No.
4147
4148891
414900:47:07,575 --> 00:47:08,361
4150No.
4151
4152892
415300:47:11,787 --> 00:47:15,121
4154I worked for the government
4155at the bond tour.
4156
4157893
415800:47:15,333 --> 00:47:17,074
4159Really? How?
4160
4161894
416200:47:17,293 --> 00:47:20,206
4163By appearing,
4164by dancing with these people.
4165
4166895
416700:47:22,423 --> 00:47:24,710
4168Hedy used to go
4169to the Hollywood Canteen
4170
4171896
417200:47:24,925 --> 00:47:27,167
4173and entertain the troops.
4174
4175897
417600:47:27,386 --> 00:47:29,469
4177Hedy Lamarr
4178hands out autographs.
4179
4180898
418100:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,673
4182She was not yet
4183an American citizen
4184
4185899
418600:47:32,892 --> 00:47:37,728
4187and she was there working
4188on behalf of the United States
4189
4190900
419100:47:37,938 --> 00:47:39,895
4192and its soldiers every night
4193
4194901
419500:47:40,107 --> 00:47:41,564
4196as often as she could be.
4197
4198902
419900:47:41,776 --> 00:47:44,109
4200It's a great thing, really.
4201
4202903
420300:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,985
4204Hedy sold something like
4205$25 million worth of war bonds,
4206
4207904
420800:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,238
4209which if you translate that
4210into modern dollars,
4211
4212905
421300:47:52,453 --> 00:47:57,994
4214comes out around $343 million
4215worth of war bonds.
4216
4217906
421800:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,253
4219To be told to just raise money
4220for the war,
4221
4222907
422300:48:03,464 --> 00:48:04,580
4224it's unfortunate.
4225
4226908
422700:48:04,799 --> 00:48:07,132
4228That was the way that people
4229thought that she would do good
4230
4231909
423200:48:07,343 --> 00:48:10,882
4233in the best way within
4234her realm of capabilities.
4235
4236910
423700:48:11,097 --> 00:48:13,054
4238F-35, somebody have it?
4239
4240911
424100:48:13,265 --> 00:48:14,005
4242I've got it!
4243
4244912
424500:48:14,225 --> 00:48:15,215
4246Go ahead!
4247
4248913
424900:48:15,434 --> 00:48:16,845
4250Oh no.
4251
4252914
425300:48:17,061 --> 00:48:21,146
4254Like, go and sell a kiss
4255to a strange man.
4256
4257915
425800:48:21,357 --> 00:48:24,316
4259Maybe... maybe she would have felt
4260a little bit better
4261
4262916
426300:48:24,527 --> 00:48:27,565
4264about her accomplishments
4265if she received recognition
4266
4267917
426800:48:27,780 --> 00:48:29,772
4269for her intellect.
4270
4271918
427200:48:29,990 --> 00:48:31,231
4273Oh, you'll get used to it.
4274
4275919
427600:48:31,450 --> 00:48:33,112
4277I don't want to get used to it.
4278
4279920
428000:48:33,327 --> 00:48:34,192
4281I have my own life.
4282
4283921
428400:48:34,412 --> 00:48:36,244
4285My own life!
4286
4287922
428800:48:36,455 --> 00:48:38,071
4289To add insult to injury,
4290
4291923
429200:48:38,290 --> 00:48:42,751
4293the U.S. Government seized
4294Hedy's patent in 1942
4295
4296924
429700:48:42,962 --> 00:48:45,079
4298as the property
4299of an enemy alien.
4300
4301925
430200:48:47,216 --> 00:48:48,878
4303I don't understand.
4304
4305926
430600:48:49,093 --> 00:48:51,585
4307They use me for selling bonds,
4308
4309927
431000:48:51,804 --> 00:48:52,965
4311then I'm not an alien.
4312
4313928
431400:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,092
4315And when I invent something
4316for this country
4317
4318929
431900:48:55,307 --> 00:48:57,299
4320I am an alien?
4321
4322930
432300:49:04,733 --> 00:49:07,897
4324I am Tandelayo.
4325
4326931
432700:49:08,112 --> 00:49:11,230
4328After she did the invention,
4329
4330932
433100:49:11,449 --> 00:49:14,066
4332what did Louis B. Mayer
4333offer Hedy Lamarr?
4334
4335933
433600:49:16,287 --> 00:49:17,573
4337White Cargo.
4338
4339934
434000:49:23,002 --> 00:49:25,289
4341We were at war by then
4342and Louis B. Mayer
4343
4344935
434500:49:25,504 --> 00:49:27,416
4346wanted to entertain
4347the servicemen
4348
4349936
435000:49:27,631 --> 00:49:28,747
4351who would pay money
4352
4353937
435400:49:28,966 --> 00:49:31,424
4355to see what was considered
4356a dirty picture.
4357
4358938
435900:49:35,181 --> 00:49:37,093
4360Louis B. Mayer
4361divided the world
4362
4363939
436400:49:37,308 --> 00:49:39,550
4365into two kinds of women,
4366
4367940
436800:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,555
4369Madonna and whore.
4370
4371941
437200:49:43,689 --> 00:49:45,180
4373I don't think he ever believed
4374
4375942
437600:49:45,399 --> 00:49:48,142
4377she was anything but the latter
4378
4379943
438000:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,023
4381because of Ecstasy.
4382
4383944
438400:49:51,238 --> 00:49:52,570
4385You better go now.
4386
4387945
438800:49:56,327 --> 00:49:59,195
4389Audiences ate it up.
4390
4391946
439200:49:59,413 --> 00:50:04,875
4393This was a woman who had tried
4394to change the course of the war.
4395
4396947
439700:50:05,085 --> 00:50:08,123
4398Now she found herself
4399in a third rate film
4400
4401948
440200:50:08,339 --> 00:50:11,252
4403as a distraction
4404for the troops.
4405
4406949
440700:50:13,677 --> 00:50:17,261
4408They think I'm a bad actress.
4409
4410950
441100:50:17,473 --> 00:50:21,092
4412I think sometimes in life
4413I act more than on the screen.
4414
4415951
441600:50:24,146 --> 00:50:27,389
4417Hedy really struggled
4418to make her mark in Hollywood.
4419
4420952
442100:50:27,608 --> 00:50:29,565
4422She knew she wasn't respected
4423
4424953
442500:50:29,777 --> 00:50:32,269
4426like a Garbo or a Dietrich.
4427
4428954
442900:50:32,488 --> 00:50:37,700
4430She wanted to have roles that
4431allowed her to do something more
4432
4433955
443400:50:37,910 --> 00:50:39,822
4435and to give her
4436an acting challenge.
4437
4438956
443900:50:40,037 --> 00:50:45,874
4440So that brought her in some
4441conflict with Louis B. Mayer.
4442
4443957
444400:50:46,085 --> 00:50:47,826
4445He sued her a couple times.
4446
4447958
444800:50:48,045 --> 00:50:50,128
4449I mean, he tried to keep her
4450on a very tight leash.
4451
4452959
445300:50:50,339 --> 00:50:52,626
4454She wouldn't let herself
4455be kept on a tight leash
4456
4457960
445800:50:52,841 --> 00:50:54,207
4459and there were always problems.
4460
4461961
446200:50:54,426 --> 00:50:57,794
4463And she got the reputation
4464of being difficult.
4465
4466962
446700:51:04,979 --> 00:51:07,892
4468I believe that we are
4469controlled by ourselves,
4470
4471963
447200:51:08,107 --> 00:51:09,063
4473by our way of thinking,
4474
4475964
447600:51:09,275 --> 00:51:11,392
4477by our way
4478of dealing with people.
4479
4480965
448100:51:11,610 --> 00:51:12,896
4482I mean, there comes a point
4483
4484966
448500:51:13,112 --> 00:51:14,193
4486when you can't take anymore...
4487
4488967
448900:51:14,405 --> 00:51:16,692
4490then you have to
4491make yourself heard.
4492
4493968
449400:51:18,033 --> 00:51:21,071
4495She needed to be free.
4496
4497969
449800:51:21,287 --> 00:51:25,156
4499I think she was brave
4500and courageous.
4501
4502970
450300:51:25,374 --> 00:51:27,286
4504She felt like,
4505"I'm gonna do it for myself.
4506
4507971
450800:51:27,501 --> 00:51:29,208
4509I'm gonna live the way...
4510
4511972
451200:51:29,420 --> 00:51:30,752
4513I bloody wanna live
4514my own life."
4515
4516973
451700:51:32,131 --> 00:51:33,212
4518So she said,
4519"Well, you know what?
4520
4521974
452200:51:33,424 --> 00:51:34,460
4523I'll make my own movie.
4524
4525975
452600:51:34,675 --> 00:51:36,632
4527I'll produce my own movie."
4528
4529976
453000:51:39,471 --> 00:51:41,963
4531I don't really recall
4532anybody except Hedy
4533
4534977
453500:51:42,182 --> 00:51:45,175
4536went out and actually
4537produced a movie.
4538
4539978
454000:51:45,394 --> 00:51:49,183
4541It was very unusual in 1946.
4542
4543979
454400:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,014
4545The system didn't welcome it,
4546
4547980
454800:51:51,233 --> 00:51:53,896
4549they didn't want movie stars
4550going out of control
4551
4552981
455300:51:54,111 --> 00:51:55,397
4554and producing their own films.
4555
4556982
455700:51:55,613 --> 00:51:57,479
4558What a terrible idea.
4559
4560983
456100:51:57,698 --> 00:52:00,816
4562Especially the women.
4563
4564984
456500:52:01,035 --> 00:52:04,153
4566She was so ahead of her time
4567with being a feminist.
4568
4569985
457000:52:05,956 --> 00:52:09,791
4571She's never been called that,
4572but she certainly was.
4573
4574986
457500:52:10,002 --> 00:52:11,743
4576Don't worry about me.
4577
4578987
457900:52:11,962 --> 00:52:13,669
4580I can handle trouble.
4581
4582988
458300:52:13,881 --> 00:52:15,964
4584I know you can.
4585
4586989
458700:52:16,175 --> 00:52:19,714
4588And then she co-produced
4589Dishonored Lady,
4590
4591990
459200:52:19,928 --> 00:52:23,217
4593and I think that both films
4594were produced very well.
4595
4596991
459700:52:27,603 --> 00:52:30,311
4598She made Dishonored Lady
4599with my father.
4600
4601992
460200:52:30,522 --> 00:52:32,889
4603It's the only movie
4604they were in together.
4605
4606993
460700:52:33,108 --> 00:52:35,145
4608I've always wondered
4609if it were possible for people
4610
4611994
461200:52:35,361 --> 00:52:37,068
4613like you and me.
4614
4615995
461600:52:37,279 --> 00:52:40,693
4617This was a time
4618when America was recovering
4619
4620996
462100:52:40,908 --> 00:52:43,025
4622from World War Il.
4623
4624997
462500:52:43,243 --> 00:52:44,825
4626And like the rest
4627of the country,
4628
4629998
463000:52:45,037 --> 00:52:47,950
4631she too wanted a family
4632and a home life.
4633
4634999
463500:52:50,501 --> 00:52:52,083
4636I was married
4637and married because
4638
46391000
464000:52:52,294 --> 00:52:56,538
4641I liked the companionship
4642of a man, obviously.
4643
46441001
464500:52:56,757 --> 00:52:59,875
4646I think, you know, he was quite
4647a bit older and British.
4648
46491002
465000:53:00,094 --> 00:53:02,302
4651I don't think he was
4652the love of her life.
4653
46541003
465500:53:02,513 --> 00:53:05,176
4656I think she had said
4657he was stuffy and boring.
4658
46591004
466000:53:05,391 --> 00:53:08,259
4661You know, you're not
4662at all what I imagined.
4663
46641005
466500:53:08,477 --> 00:53:09,513
4666No?
4667
46681006
466900:53:09,728 --> 00:53:11,139
4670No.
4671
46721007
467300:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,223
4674So this is a letter
4675from George Antheil.
4676
46771008
467800:53:14,441 --> 00:53:16,023
4679"The last time I saw Hedy,
4680
46811009
468200:53:16,235 --> 00:53:17,351
4683she looked paler.
4684
46851010
468600:53:17,569 --> 00:53:19,276
4687Something's troubling her.
4688
46891011
469000:53:19,488 --> 00:53:22,356
4691John Loder is really
4692and honestly too dull
4693
46941012
469500:53:22,574 --> 00:53:26,284
4696for this sparkling
4697and unbelievable diamond."
4698
46991013
470000:53:26,495 --> 00:53:29,203
4701And I think he hit the nail
4702on the head with that one.
4703
47041014
470500:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,246
4706She was independent,
4707she was the breadwinner.
4708
47091015
471000:53:33,460 --> 00:53:35,543
4711She wasn't stuck
4712in a marriage.
4713
47141016
471500:53:35,754 --> 00:53:37,120
4716Will you please go?
4717
47181017
471900:53:37,339 --> 00:53:39,205
4720Of course I'll go.
4721
47221018
472300:53:39,425 --> 00:53:42,384
4724I think he left, I was a toddler
4725and Tony was a baby,
4726
47271019
472800:53:42,594 --> 00:53:44,381
4729and I never heard from him.
4730
47311020
473200:53:47,474 --> 00:53:50,842
4733She was a single mother
4734in the '40s,
4735
47361021
473700:53:51,061 --> 00:53:53,098
4738so she was basically alone.
4739
47401022
474100:53:55,524 --> 00:53:56,731
4742When we were little,
4743
47441023
474500:53:56,942 --> 00:54:01,653
4746she was the most charming,
4747lovely person I can imagine.
4748
47491024
475000:54:01,864 --> 00:54:03,696
4751And so nice
4752and warm and loving,
4753
47541025
475500:54:03,907 --> 00:54:06,775
4756and she opened my hands
4757that were held in a ball,
4758
47591026
476000:54:06,994 --> 00:54:08,735
4761"Relax, don't go
4762to sleep angry."
4763
47641027
476500:54:08,954 --> 00:54:11,071
4766She was just
4767such a great mother.
4768
47691028
477000:54:11,290 --> 00:54:14,203
4771I taught my children swimming.
4772
47731029
477400:54:14,418 --> 00:54:18,128
4775The little children have
4776little armbands to swim.
4777
47781030
477900:54:18,338 --> 00:54:19,670
4780- Have you ever seen that?
4781- Yes.
4782
47831031
478400:54:19,882 --> 00:54:21,794
4785Makes absolutely no sense.
4786
47871032
478800:54:22,009 --> 00:54:24,217
4789because the middle,
4790the center
4791
47921033
479300:54:24,428 --> 00:54:26,795
4794is where they should be lifted.
4795
47961034
479700:54:27,014 --> 00:54:28,004
4798Mm-hm.
4799
48001035
480100:54:28,223 --> 00:54:29,589
4802That's how I taught
4803my children
4804
48051036
480600:54:29,808 --> 00:54:31,720
4807and they swim like fish.
4808
48091037
481000:54:33,228 --> 00:54:36,221
4811They really were good as gold.
4812
48131038
481400:54:37,357 --> 00:54:40,225
4815I did a good job with them.
4816
48171039
481800:54:40,444 --> 00:54:42,436
4819It made me a little tired
4820but that's...
4821
48221040
482300:54:42,654 --> 00:54:44,236
4824that's part of it, the job,
4825I guess.
4826
48271041
482800:54:46,283 --> 00:54:47,774
4829My mother worked her ass off.
4830
48311042
483200:54:47,993 --> 00:54:49,109
4833She had to earn a living.
4834
48351043
483600:54:49,328 --> 00:54:50,284
4837She was on her own.
4838
48391044
484000:54:50,496 --> 00:54:52,237
4841It was such pressure.
4842
48431045
484400:54:53,791 --> 00:54:55,874
4845At least she didn't have
4846to worry about granny.
4847
48481046
484900:54:56,084 --> 00:54:58,121
4850By then she'd made it
4851safely to California
4852
48531047
485400:54:58,337 --> 00:55:00,329
4855and Mom paid for her
4856to live nearby.
4857
48581048
485900:55:00,547 --> 00:55:03,585
4860Financially, Hedy wasn't
4861in the best of shape.
4862
48631049
486400:55:03,801 --> 00:55:05,212
4865She had two independent films,
4866
48671050
486800:55:05,427 --> 00:55:07,259
4869she made a lousy comedy,
4870
48711051
487200:55:07,471 --> 00:55:10,885
4873and she knew she was going
4874in the gutter career-wise.
4875
48761052
487700:55:11,099 --> 00:55:13,967
4878She needed a breath
4879of fresh air.
4880
48811053
488200:55:14,186 --> 00:55:15,768
4883And just by a stroke of luck,
4884
48851054
488600:55:15,979 --> 00:55:17,641
4887her agent at the time mentioned,
4888
48891055
489000:55:17,856 --> 00:55:21,020
4891"Well, I was talking
4892to C.B. the other day,"
4893
48941056
489500:55:21,235 --> 00:55:22,396
4896Cecil B. DeMille,
4897
48981057
489900:55:22,611 --> 00:55:24,352
4900great motion picture producer.
4901
49021058
490300:55:24,571 --> 00:55:27,484
4904He was just beginning
4905his biblical epics
4906
49071059
490800:55:27,699 --> 00:55:30,112
4909of sex and sand.
4910
49111060
491200:55:30,327 --> 00:55:32,239
4913And Hedy called Cecil B. DeMille
4914and said,
4915
49161061
491700:55:32,454 --> 00:55:35,572
4918"I understand you're casting
4919for a new motion picture.
4920
49211062
492200:55:35,791 --> 00:55:37,123
4923I am Delilah."
4924
49251063
492600:55:38,627 --> 00:55:41,119
4927No man leaves Delilah.
4928
49291064
493000:55:46,134 --> 00:55:47,250
4931Look at her, Samson.
4932
49331065
493400:55:47,469 --> 00:55:49,085
4935Look well.
4936
49371066
493800:55:49,304 --> 00:55:53,344
4939Satan himself taught her
4940all the arts of deception.
4941
49421067
494300:55:53,559 --> 00:55:55,471
4944Howard Hawks had a great line
4945about DeMille.
4946
49471068
494800:55:55,686 --> 00:55:57,177
4949He says, "You know,
4950
49511069
495200:55:57,396 --> 00:55:59,763
4953DeMille is so bad
4954he's almost good."
4955
49561070
495700:56:03,193 --> 00:56:05,981
4958But anyway, Samson and Delilah
4959was a huge hit.
4960
49611071
496200:56:06,196 --> 00:56:08,028
4963I think it was
4964her biggest success.
4965
49661072
496700:56:08,240 --> 00:56:10,698
4968It thoroughly
4969revived Hedy's name
4970
49711073
497200:56:10,909 --> 00:56:14,118
4973into the public consciousness.
4974
49751074
497600:56:14,329 --> 00:56:17,117
4977Samson and Delilah was
4978the second highest grossing film
4979
49801075
498100:56:17,332 --> 00:56:18,789
4982of the decade.
4983
49841076
498500:56:19,001 --> 00:56:22,870
4986Only Gone with the Wind
4987surpassed it.
4988
49891077
499000:56:23,088 --> 00:56:24,579
4991Hedy took notice.
4992
49931078
499400:56:24,798 --> 00:56:26,790
4995She decided to produce
4996her own epic
4997
49981079
499900:56:27,009 --> 00:56:29,251
5000in the style of DeMille.
5001
50021080
500300:56:29,469 --> 00:56:32,257
5004She would film it in Italy
5005and title it
5006
50071081
500800:56:32,472 --> 00:56:34,555
5009The Loves of Three Queens.
5010
50111082
501200:56:39,062 --> 00:56:42,100
5013Hedy played
5014all three lead roles.
5015
50161083
501700:56:42,316 --> 00:56:43,932
5018The subject was beauty
5019
50201084
502100:56:44,151 --> 00:56:45,858
5022and how it got
5023in the way of love
5024
50251085
502600:56:46,069 --> 00:56:47,810
5027for the great women of history.
5028
50291086
503000:56:48,030 --> 00:56:50,317
5031They're leading you into a trap.
5032
50331087
503400:56:50,532 --> 00:56:53,070
5035Oh, Napoleon, you're blind.
5036
50371088
503800:56:53,285 --> 00:56:55,151
5039There is no choice.
5040
50411089
504200:56:55,370 --> 00:56:57,032
5043It was a huge production.
5044
50451090
504600:56:57,247 --> 00:56:58,203
5047She didn't have the training
5048
50491091
505000:56:58,415 --> 00:57:01,203
5051to take on a project
5052of this size.
5053
50541092
505500:57:01,418 --> 00:57:03,125
5056And when she was finished
5057with it,
5058
50591093
506000:57:03,337 --> 00:57:07,297
5061she couldn't find distribution
5062in the United States.
5063
50641094
506500:57:07,507 --> 00:57:09,669
5066She spent millions
5067of dollars on it,
5068
50691095
507000:57:09,885 --> 00:57:11,968
5071no one would touch it.
5072
50731096
507400:57:12,179 --> 00:57:13,465
5075She lost all her money.
5076
50771097
507800:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,171
5079She found herself with nothing.
5080
50811098
508200:57:16,558 --> 00:57:20,142
5083I'm a good artist
5084and a very bad business person.
5085
50861099
508700:57:22,481 --> 00:57:23,722
5088She's no longer a star
5089
50901100
509100:57:23,941 --> 00:57:26,228
5092and she doesn't really have
5093any money.
5094
50951101
509600:57:28,236 --> 00:57:30,819
5097She was in Houston for an event
5098
50991102
510000:57:31,031 --> 00:57:34,320
5101and she ran into Howard Lee
5102the oil man.
5103
51041103
510500:57:34,534 --> 00:57:40,280
5106And then I found out
5107my name was now Tony Lee.
5108
51091104
511000:57:40,499 --> 00:57:42,240
5111And we were living in Texas.
5112
51131105
511400:57:53,428 --> 00:57:57,138
5115Mom actually had a Texas twang
5116with a Viennese accent.
5117
51181106
511900:57:57,349 --> 00:57:59,682
5120It was hilarious.
5121
51221107
512300:57:59,893 --> 00:58:02,135
5124He was a nice guy.
5125
51261108
512700:58:02,354 --> 00:58:06,223
5128I really kind of felt Texan
5129for a while.
5130
51311109
513200:58:06,441 --> 00:58:11,687
5133In Texas, Hedy found herself
5134a trophy wife again.
5135
51361110
513700:58:11,905 --> 00:58:14,397
5138You know, Texas was retirement.
5139
51401111
514100:58:14,616 --> 00:58:17,700
5142But a creative person
5143needs something to do.
5144
51451112
514600:58:17,911 --> 00:58:19,948
5147She didn't have much to do.
5148
51491113
515000:58:23,792 --> 00:58:26,910
5151We went on vacation
5152in Aspen, Colorado.
5153
51541114
515500:58:27,129 --> 00:58:29,212
5156I used to ski
5157when I was a young girl.
5158
51591115
516000:58:29,423 --> 00:58:32,166
5161I skied to school,
5162I skied all over the place.
5163
51641116
516500:58:34,136 --> 00:58:35,547
5166And I went through Aspen.
5167
51681117
516900:58:35,762 --> 00:58:37,719
5170There was nobody there.
5171Nothing.
5172
51731118
517400:58:37,931 --> 00:58:40,093
5175Just a little store
5176and a few houses.
5177
51781119
517900:58:40,308 --> 00:58:44,518
5180And they said, "This could be a
5181very wonderful skiing resort."
5182
51831120
518400:58:44,730 --> 00:58:47,894
5185So I started to build
5186a place called Villa Lamarr.
5187
51881121
518900:58:48,108 --> 00:58:50,225
5190She wanted to build
5191a ski resort,
5192
51931122
519400:58:50,444 --> 00:58:53,107
5195so she convinced Howard
5196to buy some land.
5197
51981123
519900:58:54,489 --> 00:58:56,856
5200It was all Austrian,
5201it's beautiful.
5202
52031124
520400:58:57,075 --> 00:58:59,158
5205She spent years
5206making that place.
5207
52081125
520900:59:00,245 --> 00:59:03,158
5210She created some
5211of her homeland.
5212
52131126
521400:59:03,373 --> 00:59:05,615
5215That's why it meant
5216a lot to her.
5217
52181127
521900:59:05,834 --> 00:59:09,453
5220She was really,
5221I think, homesick.
5222
52231128
522400:59:12,507 --> 00:59:13,497
5225It was after that
5226
52271129
522800:59:13,717 --> 00:59:17,085
5229that everything
5230started falling apart.
5231
52321130
523300:59:17,304 --> 00:59:19,341
5234Their relationship wasn't good.
5235
52361131
523700:59:19,556 --> 00:59:23,266
5238It was pretty traumatic;
5239he was an alcoholic.
5240
52411132
524200:59:23,477 --> 00:59:25,514
5243With children it was very
5244difficult so I walked away.
5245
52461133
524700:59:25,729 --> 00:59:28,972
5248I said, "All I want is Aspen,"
5249which I built myself.
5250
52511134
525200:59:29,191 --> 00:59:30,682
5253My chalet there which makes
5254
52551135
525600:59:30,901 --> 00:59:32,938
5257a million a day,
5258I suppose, now.
5259
52601136
526100:59:35,447 --> 00:59:36,608
5262Hedy told me again and again
5263
52641137
526500:59:36,823 --> 00:59:39,782
5266about her divorce
5267with Howard Lee.
5268
52691138
527000:59:39,993 --> 00:59:42,326
5271May be the darkest time
5272in her life.
5273
52741139
527500:59:43,955 --> 00:59:44,866
5276And then my daughter said,
5277
52781140
527900:59:45,082 --> 00:59:47,699
5280"Ma, something happened
5281to Tony."
5282
52831141
528400:59:47,918 --> 00:59:51,082
5285My son was almost killed
5286in a car accident.
5287
52881142
528900:59:53,465 --> 00:59:56,128
5290While her son was
5291in the hospital near death,
5292
52931143
529400:59:56,343 --> 00:59:59,427
5295Hedy was called to testify
5296in divorce court.
5297
52981144
529900:59:59,638 --> 01:00:03,097
5300Stressed and traumatized
5301to the point of breakdown,
5302
53031145
530401:00:03,308 --> 01:00:05,550
5305she sent
5306her Hollywood body double
5307
53081146
530901:00:05,769 --> 01:00:08,227
5310to testify in her place.
5311
53121147
531301:00:08,438 --> 01:00:10,976
5314She infuriated the judge,
5315
53161148
531701:00:11,191 --> 01:00:13,274
5318who punished her
5319by cutting her share
5320
53211149
532201:00:13,485 --> 01:00:15,898
5323of the divorce settlement.
5324
53251150
532601:00:16,113 --> 01:00:17,945
5327He took everything away.
5328
53291151
533001:00:18,156 --> 01:00:20,489
5331Aspen, which was beautiful.
5332
53331152
533401:00:20,700 --> 01:00:23,283
5335I mean, it was a big shock.
5336
53371153
533801:00:23,495 --> 01:00:25,782
5339So with the pressure here
5340and pressure all over
5341
53421154
534301:00:25,997 --> 01:00:28,330
5344that's all I needed.
5345So I collapsed.
5346
53471155
534801:00:28,542 --> 01:00:31,159
5349I had a nervous breakdown.
5350
53511156
535201:00:31,378 --> 01:00:33,961
5353I feel like I was dead for...
5354
53551157
535601:00:34,172 --> 01:00:36,710
5357I don't know how long,
5358but I was dead.
5359
53601158
536101:00:36,925 --> 01:00:41,135
5362And so much so that this light
5363you see really exists
5364
53651159
536601:00:41,346 --> 01:00:44,054
5367on the ceiling.
5368
53691160
537001:00:44,266 --> 01:00:45,177
5371I saw my father.
5372
53731161
537401:00:48,979 --> 01:00:51,141
5375She said Emil, her father,
5376
53771162
537801:00:51,356 --> 01:00:52,346
5379was her greatest love,
5380
53811163
538201:00:52,566 --> 01:00:54,649
5383or no one could compare to him.
5384
53851164
538601:00:54,860 --> 01:00:59,730
5387Well, he knew her
5388before she was this celebrity.
5389
53901165
539101:00:59,948 --> 01:01:02,486
5392And so she felt
5393real love there.
5394
53951166
539601:01:02,701 --> 01:01:05,034
5397And I don't know
5398if she felt that again.
5399
54001167
540101:01:07,372 --> 01:01:09,614
5402Hedy had two more husbands
5403in her life.
5404
54051168
540601:01:09,833 --> 01:01:12,667
5407Neither marriage lasted
5408much more than a year.
5409
54101169
541101:01:14,504 --> 01:01:17,997
5412I wish my mother had a husband
5413
54141170
541501:01:18,216 --> 01:01:19,707
5416who knew how to love her.
5417
54181171
541901:01:19,926 --> 01:01:21,007
5420But she never did.
5421
54221172
542301:01:24,431 --> 01:01:27,094
5424When I ended up living
5425with her after Texas,
5426
54271173
542801:01:27,309 --> 01:01:31,144
5429it was very, very tricky,
5430very hard.
5431
54321174
543301:01:33,273 --> 01:01:36,016
5434I think the drugs
5435were very responsible.
5436
54371175
543801:01:36,234 --> 01:01:39,147
5439The slightest thing could...
5440could set her off.
5441
54421176
544301:01:39,362 --> 01:01:40,944
5444There was erratic behavior.
5445
54461177
544701:01:41,156 --> 01:01:44,900
5448She was becoming more unstable.
5449
54501178
545101:01:45,118 --> 01:01:48,361
5452I guess it pretty much
5453started with Jimmy.
5454
54551179
545601:01:51,249 --> 01:01:54,037
5457As an adult,
5458I was looking at baby pictures
5459
54601180
546101:01:54,252 --> 01:01:56,084
5462and it was my first birthday
5463with my mom...
5464
54651181
546601:01:56,296 --> 01:01:58,333
5467and mother and father behind me.
5468
54691182
547001:01:58,548 --> 01:02:01,416
5471And in between them, a boy.
5472
54731183
547401:02:01,635 --> 01:02:03,342
5475Um, I told Mom,
5476
54771184
547801:02:03,553 --> 01:02:05,294
5479"Who's this boy?"
5480
54811185
548201:02:05,513 --> 01:02:06,924
5483And she literally said,
5484
54851186
548601:02:07,140 --> 01:02:10,224
5487"Oh, it was an adoption
5488that didn't work out."
5489
54901187
549101:02:10,435 --> 01:02:13,143
5492She told me that
5493he was really rebellious
5494
54951188
549601:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,223
5497and was acting out big time.
5498
54991189
550001:02:16,441 --> 01:02:20,025
5501And Jimmy was put
5502in a military boarding school.
5503
55041190
550501:02:20,237 --> 01:02:22,320
5506So the sports coach
5507
55081191
550901:02:22,530 --> 01:02:24,772
5510kind of took Jimmy
5511under his wing,
5512
55131192
551401:02:24,991 --> 01:02:26,482
5515coach and the wife,
5516
55171193
551801:02:26,701 --> 01:02:31,287
5519and he asked Hedy
5520if he could live with them.
5521
55221194
552301:02:31,498 --> 01:02:34,912
5524And Mom was apparently so hurt
5525she said yes.
5526
55271195
552801:02:36,586 --> 01:02:39,078
5529And I can't believe
5530that I have no memory of him.
5531
55321196
553301:02:41,341 --> 01:02:44,175
5534She's my mother and I love her.
5535
55361197
553701:02:44,386 --> 01:02:47,845
5538I called her sometimes
5539and she called me sometimes.
5540
55411198
554201:02:49,474 --> 01:02:51,136
5543I never really blamed her
5544for anything,
5545
55461199
554701:02:51,351 --> 01:02:53,058
5548I... I just...
5549
55501200
555101:02:53,270 --> 01:02:56,104
5552I knew she was upset
5553because I, you know,
5554
55551201
555601:02:56,314 --> 01:02:58,772
5557kind of like slapped her
5558in the face.
5559
55601202
556101:02:58,984 --> 01:03:01,943
5562Like saying,
5563"I don't love you anymore."
5564
55651203
556601:03:02,153 --> 01:03:06,147
5567But still I never saw her
5568after that for 40-some years.
5569
55701204
557101:03:08,576 --> 01:03:10,738
5572She was a woman of extremes.
5573
55741205
557501:03:12,163 --> 01:03:14,871
5576I mean, Hedy can just
5577leave things behind.
5578
55791206
558001:03:15,083 --> 01:03:18,121
5581She cut off Jimmy,
5582she cut off being Jewish.
5583
55841207
558501:03:18,336 --> 01:03:22,046
5586She was broken, she was
5587missing pieces of herself.
5588
55891208
559001:03:25,218 --> 01:03:27,255
5591A lot of stars
5592from the studio system
5593
55941209
559501:03:27,470 --> 01:03:33,558
5596did carry over this addiction
5597to pep pills, speed.
5598
55991210
560001:03:33,768 --> 01:03:35,930
5601It does explain, in hindsight,
5602
56031211
560401:03:36,146 --> 01:03:38,138
5605a lot of her behavior.
5606
56071212
560801:03:43,278 --> 01:03:45,565
5609There are always
5610a great many rumors
5611
56121213
561301:03:45,780 --> 01:03:50,275
5614about her connection
5615to the famous Dr. Feelgood.
5616
56171214
561801:03:52,370 --> 01:03:56,660
5619Dr. Feelgood was Max Jacobson.
5620
56211215
562201:03:56,875 --> 01:03:58,366
5623Look at
5624the Aretha Franklin song,
5625
56261216
562701:03:58,585 --> 01:04:01,123
5628"Oh, Dr. Feelgood,
5629please make me feel good."
5630
56311217
563201:04:01,338 --> 01:04:03,125
5633Everybody called him
5634Dr. Feelgood
5635
56361218
563701:04:03,340 --> 01:04:06,208
5638because he made them
5639feel good.
5640
56411219
564201:04:06,426 --> 01:04:08,213
5643When Cecil B. DeMille
5644had his heart attack
5645
56461220
564701:04:08,428 --> 01:04:10,260
5648on the set
5649of The Ten Commandments,
5650
56511221
565201:04:10,472 --> 01:04:11,963
5653he flew Dr. Max over.
5654
56551222
565601:04:12,182 --> 01:04:13,047
5657And then DeMille said,
5658
56591223
566001:04:13,266 --> 01:04:14,131
5661"Go inject Charlton Heston.
5662
56631224
566401:04:14,351 --> 01:04:15,307
5665There's not enough energy.
5666
56671225
566801:04:15,518 --> 01:04:18,306
5669His Moses is too lackadaisical."
5670
56711226
567201:04:19,939 --> 01:04:22,727
5673Hedy Lamarr
5674became a patient of his
5675
56761227
567701:04:22,942 --> 01:04:25,400
5678from the 1950s
5679until Max Jacobson
5680
56811228
568201:04:25,612 --> 01:04:30,073
5683lost his medical license
5684in 1974.
5685
56861229
568701:04:30,283 --> 01:04:33,526
5688Somebody did me in
5689like many times
5690
56911230
569201:04:33,745 --> 01:04:36,488
5693and gave me a shot.
5694I don't know what it was.
5695
56961231
569701:04:36,706 --> 01:04:39,414
5698I thought it was vitamins
5699but it wasn't.
5700
57011232
570201:04:39,626 --> 01:04:41,288
5703Said, "Oh, you should try
5704these vitamin B shots.
5705
57061233
570701:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,165
5708They give you so much energy."
5709
57101234
571101:04:44,547 --> 01:04:46,163
5712What Max Jacobson said
5713
57141235
571501:04:46,383 --> 01:04:49,751
5716is they were
5717special vitamin elixirs.
5718
57191236
572001:04:49,969 --> 01:04:51,551
5721And he loaded up a vial
5722
57231237
572401:04:51,763 --> 01:04:54,631
5725with 40 milligrams
5726of methamphetamine.
5727
57281238
572901:04:54,849 --> 01:04:56,636
5730Meth was legal.
5731
57321239
573301:04:56,851 --> 01:04:58,638
5734And he gave Hedy a shot.
5735
57361240
573701:05:01,398 --> 01:05:02,639
5738And the thing
5739about methamphetamine
5740
57411241
574201:05:02,857 --> 01:05:04,314
5743is once you get
5744a couple of shots,
5745
57461242
574701:05:04,526 --> 01:05:06,688
5748you're hooked
5749because the brain will demand
5750
57511243
575201:05:06,903 --> 01:05:08,895
5753more and more of that reward.
5754
57551244
575601:05:10,907 --> 01:05:15,026
5757So she got hooked
5758on these "vitamins."
5759
57601245
576101:05:15,245 --> 01:05:21,082
5762And they turned her
5763into a monster.
5764
57651246
576601:05:21,292 --> 01:05:23,158
5767I was standing in the kitchen
5768
57691247
577001:05:23,378 --> 01:05:25,210
5771and she was holding a fork
5772and she dropped it.
5773
57741248
577501:05:25,422 --> 01:05:27,960
5776And all of a sudden
5777she just hauls up and, bam,
5778
57791249
578001:05:28,174 --> 01:05:30,461
5781smashes me across the face.
5782
57831250
578401:05:30,677 --> 01:05:33,636
5785"Whenever I drop something,
5786you pick it up!"
5787
57881251
578901:05:33,847 --> 01:05:38,091
5790You know,
5791she was just out of control.
5792
57931252
579401:05:38,309 --> 01:05:41,427
5795Now I can be forgiving
5796for all that erratic behavior
5797
57981253
579901:05:41,646 --> 01:05:44,389
5800because in a way
5801she was a victim
5802
58031254
580401:05:44,607 --> 01:05:47,441
5805of the very system
5806that made her famous.
5807
58081255
580901:05:56,703 --> 01:05:58,410
5810Thank you very much.
5811Howdy-hi, Shindiggers.
5812
58131256
581401:05:58,621 --> 01:06:01,079
5815I'm Jimmy O'Neill and tonight
5816it's my great pleasure
5817
58181257
581901:06:01,291 --> 01:06:04,079
5820to introduce the beautiful
5821Ms. Hedy Lamarr.
5822
58231258
582401:06:09,174 --> 01:06:12,838
5825Of course anyone growing up
5826in Hollywood in the early '60s
5827
58281259
582901:06:13,052 --> 01:06:15,590
5830was aware of her
5831as the kind of caricature
5832
58331260
583401:06:15,805 --> 01:06:18,468
5835of herself that she had become.
5836
58371261
583801:06:18,683 --> 01:06:20,140
5839Lucille Ball, I remember,
5840
58411262
584201:06:20,351 --> 01:06:24,766
5843used to do an outrageous
5844takeoff of Tandelayo.
5845
58461263
584701:06:35,158 --> 01:06:37,241
5848I am Tandelayo.
5849
58501264
585101:06:40,246 --> 01:06:42,158
5852I think it was offensive to her.
5853
58541265
585501:06:42,373 --> 01:06:43,989
5856She didn't want to be a joke.
5857
58581266
585901:06:45,752 --> 01:06:48,540
5860Mom was not in a good...
5861good way
5862
58631267
586401:06:48,755 --> 01:06:50,371
5865when I was away at college.
5866
58671268
586801:06:50,590 --> 01:06:53,173
5869I remember one day
5870walking to school at Cal,
5871
58721269
587301:06:53,384 --> 01:06:54,249
5874with my books,
5875
58761270
587701:06:54,469 --> 01:06:55,960
5878and I walked past a newsstand
5879
58801271
588101:06:56,179 --> 01:06:58,011
5882and there's a picture
5883of Mom in jail.
5884
58851272
588601:07:02,435 --> 01:07:03,516
5887Mrs. Lamarr was shopping
5888
58891273
589001:07:03,728 --> 01:07:05,390
5891at the May Company
5892Department Store
5893
58941274
589501:07:05,605 --> 01:07:06,937
5896and evidently was arrested
5897
58981275
589901:07:07,148 --> 01:07:08,434
5900by one of the security personnel
5901
59021276
590301:07:08,650 --> 01:07:10,016
5904of the store.
5905
59061277
590701:07:10,235 --> 01:07:11,442
5908And it was apparent that she had
5909
59101278
591101:07:11,653 --> 01:07:15,067
5912something like
5913approximately $14,000 on her,
5914
59151279
591601:07:15,281 --> 01:07:18,490
5917but she had still taken
5918about $80 worth of merchandise.
5919
59201280
592101:07:18,701 --> 01:07:21,239
5922When you see that
5923on the front page,
5924
59251281
592601:07:21,454 --> 01:07:23,366
5927it's like you want
5928to just crawl in a hole.
5929
59301282
593101:07:25,166 --> 01:07:26,577
5932The defendant
5933is quoted as saying,
5934
59351283
593601:07:26,793 --> 01:07:28,455
5937"I didn't mean
5938to steal anything.
5939
59401284
594101:07:28,670 --> 01:07:30,377
5942I'll be glad to pay
5943for the items.
5944
59451285
594601:07:30,588 --> 01:07:33,046
5947I have the money."
5948
59491286
595001:07:33,258 --> 01:07:34,874
5951She was acquitted for that.
5952
59531287
595401:07:35,093 --> 01:07:37,176
5955She said it was
5956a misunderstanding.
5957
59581288
595901:07:37,387 --> 01:07:39,049
5960Who knows?
5961
59621289
596301:07:39,264 --> 01:07:42,177
5964You know, a lot of people
5965handle stress in different ways.
5966
59671290
596801:07:44,686 --> 01:07:46,643
5969It was a shock.
5970
59711291
597201:07:46,854 --> 01:07:50,063
5973She was such a big star.
5974
59751292
597601:07:50,275 --> 01:07:53,063
5977She seemed so untouchable
5978
59791293
598001:07:53,278 --> 01:07:54,610
5981to be reduced to that.
5982
59831294
598401:07:54,821 --> 01:07:56,687
5985And I think that
5986most people thought
5987
59881295
598901:07:56,906 --> 01:07:59,193
5990it must be a kind
5991of mental illness.
5992
59931296
599401:07:59,409 --> 01:08:01,446
5995I want to see the store manager.
5996
59971297
599801:08:01,661 --> 01:08:02,447
5999No.
6000
60011298
600201:08:02,662 --> 01:08:03,948
6003I want to see the store manager.
6004
60051299
600601:08:04,163 --> 01:08:05,404
6007You're not seeing
6008the store manager.
6009
60101300
601101:08:05,623 --> 01:08:07,489
6012Andy Warhol's
6013school of filmmaking
6014
60151301
601601:08:07,709 --> 01:08:12,044
6017makes a film that is very
6018obviously lampooning her image.
6019
60201302
602101:08:12,255 --> 01:08:14,588
6022And she becomes,
6023essentially, a punch line.
6024
60251303
602601:08:16,050 --> 01:08:18,007
6027The shoplifting also resulted
6028
60291304
603001:08:18,219 --> 01:08:20,211
6031in her inability
6032to play her final role.
6033
60341305
603501:08:21,514 --> 01:08:22,846
6036She was signed to do
6037
60381306
603901:08:23,057 --> 01:08:24,389
6040Picture Mommy Dead
6041
60421307
604301:08:24,601 --> 01:08:27,594
6044and Zsa Zsa Gabor
6045stepped in to replace her.
6046
60471308
604801:08:27,812 --> 01:08:29,223
6049They just fired me.
6050
60511309
605201:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,146
6053- Were you shocked?
6054- No.
6055
60561310
605701:08:31,357 --> 01:08:33,189
6058I'm not shocked at that, no.
6059
60601311
606101:08:33,401 --> 01:08:35,188
6062This is gonna go
6063into your book, I trust.
6064
60651312
606601:08:35,403 --> 01:08:37,065
6067Oh, yes, indeed.
6068
60691313
607001:08:37,280 --> 01:08:38,111
6071What's the name of that book?
6072
60731314
607401:08:38,323 --> 01:08:40,986
6075The longer I wait,
6076the better the book gets.
6077
60781315
607901:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,533
6080Somebody suggested
6081doing her autobiography,
6082
60831316
608401:08:43,745 --> 01:08:45,236
6085that she should do it.
6086
60871317
608801:08:45,455 --> 01:08:47,822
6089She had no interest
6090in the book itself,
6091
60921318
609301:08:48,041 --> 01:08:50,533
6094but she wanted
6095the money from it.
6096
60971319
609801:08:50,752 --> 01:08:53,995
6099There really hadn't been
6100any sort of scandalous tell-all.
6101
61021320
610301:08:54,213 --> 01:08:56,626
6104She spoke with ghostwriters
6105
61061321
610701:08:56,841 --> 01:08:58,707
6108for many, many hours
6109about her past,
6110
61111322
611201:08:58,926 --> 01:09:00,918
6113and then they translated
6114her memories
6115
61161323
611701:09:01,137 --> 01:09:02,298
6118into a narrative.
6119
61201324
612101:09:02,513 --> 01:09:04,220
6122I think her business manager
6123was paid off
6124
61251325
612601:09:04,432 --> 01:09:07,345
6127to get all this stuff past her.
6128
61291326
613001:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,222
6131And she didn't want to deal
6132with paperwork,
6133
61341327
613501:09:09,437 --> 01:09:11,053
6136so she just trusted him.
6137
61381328
613901:09:11,272 --> 01:09:15,186
6140Your book,
6141called Ecstasy and Me...
6142
61431329
614401:09:15,401 --> 01:09:16,733
6145Don't talk about that.
6146
61471330
614801:09:16,944 --> 01:09:18,060
6149That's not my book.
6150
61511331
615201:09:18,279 --> 01:09:19,565
6153- You wrote it.
6154- No.
6155
61561332
615701:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,273
6158Did that hurt your image
6159in Hollywood?
6160
61611333
616201:09:22,492 --> 01:09:23,903
6163I don't know what is an image.
6164
61651334
616601:09:24,118 --> 01:09:25,905
6167I mean,
6168what's your image, Woody?
6169
61701335
617101:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,486
6172What's my im... same as yours.
6173
61741336
617501:09:29,374 --> 01:09:31,741
6176Okay, now you want me
6177to tell you what your image is?
6178
61791337
618001:09:31,959 --> 01:09:34,542
6181- Yeah.
6182- It's a glamorous,
6183
61841338
618501:09:34,754 --> 01:09:36,837
6186beautiful,
6187
61881339
618901:09:37,048 --> 01:09:39,631
6190internationally known star
6191
61921340
619301:09:39,842 --> 01:09:42,300
6194who obviously rides
6195in limousines
6196
61971341
619801:09:42,512 --> 01:09:43,923
6199and has great jewels
6200
62011342
620201:09:44,138 --> 01:09:46,926
6203and you don't scrub
6204your kitchen floors.
6205
62061343
620701:09:47,141 --> 01:09:49,474
6208I don't like that, no,
6209but tell me more.
6210
62111344
621201:09:49,686 --> 01:09:51,177
6213I never lived that way.
6214
62151345
621601:09:51,396 --> 01:09:52,978
6217Isn't that what it's all about?
6218
62191346
622001:09:53,189 --> 01:09:54,555
6221No, not to me.
6222
62231347
622401:09:54,774 --> 01:09:56,140
6225I guess in the image it is.
6226
62271348
622801:09:57,527 --> 01:10:01,066
6229She was known for her glamour
6230and her beauty.
6231
62321349
623301:10:01,280 --> 01:10:02,691
6234It was impossible to live up to
6235
62361350
623701:10:02,907 --> 01:10:04,523
6238as she got older.
6239
62401351
624101:10:04,742 --> 01:10:06,608
6242She would see that
6243
62441352
624501:10:06,828 --> 01:10:08,865
6246and you knew
6247that it disturbed her.
6248
62491353
625001:10:11,666 --> 01:10:14,374
6251She started having
6252plastic surgery in her 40s.
6253
62541354
625501:10:16,879 --> 01:10:18,666
6256One of her plastic surgeons
6257told me once
6258
62591355
626001:10:18,881 --> 01:10:21,589
6261that she was a groundbreaker
6262even in plastic surgery
6263
62641356
626501:10:21,801 --> 01:10:24,009
6266where she came up with ideas.
6267
62681357
626901:10:24,220 --> 01:10:27,258
6270She said, "My arms are crepey
6271and I want you to cut here
6272
62731358
627401:10:27,473 --> 01:10:28,805
6275right in the line of the fold
6276
62771359
627801:10:29,016 --> 01:10:30,382
6279and I want you to get rid
6280of the excess skin
6281
62821360
628301:10:30,601 --> 01:10:32,058
6284and leave the scar here.
6285
62861361
628701:10:32,270 --> 01:10:35,263
6288Leave the scar on my knee,
6289behind my knee.
6290
62911362
629201:10:35,481 --> 01:10:37,518
6293Put the scar behind my ear.
6294
62951363
629601:10:37,734 --> 01:10:40,647
6297And they did it
6298and the surgeons said, you know,
6299
63001364
630101:10:40,862 --> 01:10:42,103
6302"A lot of these things she did
6303
63041365
630501:10:42,321 --> 01:10:44,153
6306we were never doing before."
6307
63081366
630901:10:46,492 --> 01:10:48,324
6310You'll mention her
6311to an older plastic surgeon
6312
63131367
631401:10:48,536 --> 01:10:50,198
6315and they remember their...
6316
63171368
631801:10:50,413 --> 01:10:52,245
6319all their actresses
6320coming in saying,
6321
63221369
632301:10:52,457 --> 01:10:54,289
6324"You know, well, Hedy,
6325she had this done.
6326
63271370
632801:10:54,500 --> 01:10:56,457
6329Can I get this done too?"
6330
63311371
633201:10:56,669 --> 01:10:58,535
6333She was really one of the first
6334women out there saying,
6335
63361372
633701:10:58,755 --> 01:11:00,041
6338"Why isn't this possible?
6339
63401373
634101:11:00,256 --> 01:11:01,463
6342Why can't we do this?"
6343
63441374
634501:11:03,801 --> 01:11:05,463
6346She looked wonderful
6347for her age,
6348
63491375
635001:11:05,678 --> 01:11:07,294
6351but all of that didn't work
6352
63531376
635401:11:07,513 --> 01:11:09,675
6355because people still wanted
6356
63571377
635801:11:09,891 --> 01:11:12,429
6359that old image of Hedy Lamarr.
6360
63611378
636201:11:12,643 --> 01:11:15,181
6363You know, the only thing
6364that would have...
6365
63661379
636701:11:15,396 --> 01:11:16,932
6368that would have solved
6369the problem
6370
63711380
637201:11:17,148 --> 01:11:19,185
6373is if she'd died young.
6374
63751381
637601:11:21,444 --> 01:11:23,231
6377People were cruel to her.
6378
63791382
638001:11:23,446 --> 01:11:26,985
6381People would come up and say,
6382"You were so beautiful."
6383
63841383
638501:11:27,200 --> 01:11:28,532
6386The press was mean.
6387
63881384
638901:11:33,331 --> 01:11:35,163
6390I said, "Oh, Mom,
6391
63921385
639301:11:35,374 --> 01:11:40,165
6394I feel I really have empathy
6395for that pressure on you."
6396
63971386
639801:11:40,379 --> 01:11:43,838
6399So no wonder
6400she kind of hid away.
6401
64021387
640301:11:51,891 --> 01:11:54,349
6404Do you think
6405you are unsociable?
6406
64071388
640801:11:54,602 --> 01:11:56,059
6409Me? No!
6410
64111389
641201:11:56,312 --> 01:11:57,894
6413Have I been reserved with you?
6414
64151390
641601:11:58,105 --> 01:12:02,190
6417No, I mean are you unsociable
6418here in America?
6419
64201391
642101:12:02,401 --> 01:12:06,395
6422I only know that they
6423do not understand me.
6424
64251392
642601:12:06,614 --> 01:12:10,984
6427How can you understand
6428a person who
6429
64301393
643101:12:11,244 --> 01:12:14,703
6432has had as many phases
6433in life as I have?
6434
64351394
643601:12:14,914 --> 01:12:17,657
6437I have been through a lot,
6438my whole life.
6439
64401395
644101:12:21,671 --> 01:12:23,207
6442You start to think,
6443
64441396
644501:12:23,422 --> 01:12:26,961
6446"I have experienced
6447everything now in life."
6448
64491397
645001:12:27,176 --> 01:12:29,168
6451"Now I want peace."
6452
64531398
645401:12:29,387 --> 01:12:32,471
6455I miss Vienna.
6456
64571399
645801:12:32,682 --> 01:12:34,924
6459I would like to make
6460a movie about it.
6461
64621400
646301:12:35,142 --> 01:12:36,849
6464What would the movie look like?
6465
64661401
646701:12:40,064 --> 01:12:43,899
6468All of the nice things
6469I have seen when I was a child.
6470
64711402
647201:12:44,110 --> 01:12:47,103
6473The opera.
6474
64751403
647601:12:47,321 --> 01:12:50,655
6477The Spanish Riding School.
6478
64791404
648001:12:50,867 --> 01:12:52,608
6481Schönbrunn Palace.
6482
64831405
648401:12:52,827 --> 01:12:55,160
6485My school in Döbling.
6486
64871406
648801:12:55,371 --> 01:12:58,535
6489Whatever, I don't know.
6490
64911407
649201:12:58,749 --> 01:13:01,082
6493I am always Austrian.
6494
64951408
649601:13:16,684 --> 01:13:20,769
6497We met in person
6498two times in my life.
6499
65001409
650101:13:20,980 --> 01:13:24,269
6502She would send me
6503autographed pictures of herself,
6504
65051410
650601:13:24,483 --> 01:13:25,894
6507you know,
6508
65091411
651001:13:26,110 --> 01:13:29,899
6511which they're mostly like
6512those studio prints.
6513
65141412
651501:13:32,241 --> 01:13:34,107
6516Even though she says
6517it was a curse,
6518
65191413
652001:13:34,327 --> 01:13:38,071
6521that's what people liked
6522and loved about her and she...
6523
65241414
652501:13:38,289 --> 01:13:41,578
6526for some reason I think
6527she thought even her family,
6528
65291415
653001:13:41,792 --> 01:13:45,160
6531her grandchildren,
6532her children want that.
6533
65341416
653501:13:50,551 --> 01:13:53,794
6536She did a lot of sadly
6537not so good plastic surgery
6538
65391417
654001:13:54,013 --> 01:13:55,629
6541in her later years,
6542
65431418
654401:13:55,848 --> 01:14:00,058
6545each one fixing the flaws
6546of the last.
6547
65481419
654901:14:00,269 --> 01:14:03,103
6550And she no longer
6551went out in public.
6552
65531420
655401:14:06,233 --> 01:14:07,849
6555And then the money
6556started running out
6557
65581421
655901:14:08,069 --> 01:14:09,685
6560because she only got something
6561
65621422
656301:14:09,904 --> 01:14:11,736
6564from Screen Actors Guild
6565
65661423
656701:14:11,948 --> 01:14:14,986
6568and Social Security.
6569
65701424
657101:14:15,201 --> 01:14:16,908
6572All they give me $300.
6573
65741425
657501:14:17,119 --> 01:14:18,155
6576Per month?
6577
65781426
657901:14:18,371 --> 01:14:19,236
6580Yep.
6581
65821427
658301:14:19,455 --> 01:14:21,196
6584That's not much, is it?
6585
65861428
658701:14:21,415 --> 01:14:23,623
6588No, it's not very much.
6589
65901429
659101:14:23,834 --> 01:14:25,746
6592Have you ever tried to get... uh
6593
65941430
659501:14:25,962 --> 01:14:27,578
6596some recompense...
6597for your idea?
6598
65991431
660001:14:27,797 --> 01:14:28,708
6601...the patent?
6602
66031432
660401:14:28,923 --> 01:14:29,504
6605No.
6606
66071433
660801:14:29,715 --> 01:14:34,050
6609I was surprised that they
6610don't even acknowledge it.
6611
66121434
661301:14:34,261 --> 01:14:38,881
6614In 1969, Hedy had written
6615to a friend in the Navy
6616
66171435
661801:14:39,100 --> 01:14:42,764
6619asking if he could find out
6620what happened to her patent.
6621
66221436
662301:14:42,979 --> 01:14:45,972
6624"Laura Slainier,
6625Washington Patent Office,
6626
66271437
662801:14:46,190 --> 01:14:48,102
6629has an invention of mine,
6630
66311438
663201:14:48,317 --> 01:14:50,058
6633a missile-guided torpedo.
6634
66351439
663601:14:50,277 --> 01:14:52,519
6637Maybe you can get it."
6638
66391440
664001:14:52,738 --> 01:14:55,776
6641So this was important to her.
6642
66431441
664401:14:55,992 --> 01:14:57,824
6645His reply has been lost,
6646
66471442
664801:14:58,035 --> 01:15:00,448
6649but she probably learned
6650that her idea,
6651
66521443
665301:15:00,663 --> 01:15:02,029
6654frequency hopping,
6655
66561444
665701:15:02,248 --> 01:15:06,117
6658had been put to use
6659in military communications.
6660
66611445
666201:15:06,335 --> 01:15:09,669
6663By the time
6664of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
6665
66661446
666701:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,463
6668when President Kennedy
6669sent Navy ships
6670
66711447
667201:15:12,675 --> 01:15:14,007
6673to blockade Cuba,
6674
66751448
667601:15:14,218 --> 01:15:16,210
6677the ships that were running
6678the blockade
6679
66801449
668101:15:16,429 --> 01:15:19,672
6682were all equipped
6683with frequency-hopped radios.
6684
66851450
668601:15:19,890 --> 01:15:22,052
6687When she found out
6688that the patent was used,
6689
66901451
669101:15:22,268 --> 01:15:25,261
6692she thought, "Hey, I should be
6693making some money from this."
6694
66951452
669601:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,017
6697I mean, isn't that normal
6698to get something?
6699
67001453
670101:15:28,232 --> 01:15:29,188
6702Yes, it is.
6703
67041454
670501:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,143
6706Well... apparently
6707they didn't think so.
6708
67091455
671001:15:32,361 --> 01:15:35,149
6711Well, it has to do
6712with the nature of patent law.
6713
67141456
671501:15:35,364 --> 01:15:38,027
6716I think that it wasn't
6717actually used
6718
67191457
672001:15:38,242 --> 01:15:39,653
6721during the life
6722of the patent
6723
67241458
672501:15:39,869 --> 01:15:41,531
6726and it was only after
6727the patent expired
6728
67291459
673001:15:41,746 --> 01:15:44,113
6731that it went into common use.
6732
67331460
673401:15:44,331 --> 01:15:45,538
6735I don't think so.
6736
67371461
673801:15:45,750 --> 01:15:48,083
6739They used it before!
6740
67411462
674201:15:48,294 --> 01:15:50,160
6743For Hedy to be paid,
6744
67451463
674601:15:50,379 --> 01:15:52,086
6747the Navy had to use her patent
6748
67491464
675001:15:52,298 --> 01:15:55,962
6751before it expired in 1959.
6752
67531465
675401:15:56,177 --> 01:16:00,672
6755And there's evidence they did
6756give it to a contractor.
6757
67581466
675901:16:00,890 --> 01:16:04,383
6760Romuald Scibor sent me an email.
6761
67621467
676301:16:04,602 --> 01:16:09,017
6764And he said, 19...
6765it was about '55,
6766
67671468
676801:16:09,231 --> 01:16:13,145
6769he said he was handed
6770that patent.
6771
67721469
677301:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,694
6774And they were tasked
6775to create a sonobuoy.
6776
67771470
677801:16:18,324 --> 01:16:22,534
6779A sonobuoy is a floating
6780submarine detection device.
6781
67821471
678301:16:25,831 --> 01:16:28,869
6784Someone in the Navy
6785found the patent and thought,
6786
67871472
678801:16:29,085 --> 01:16:30,576
6789"Well, I don't know
6790if there's anything here,
6791
67921473
679301:16:30,795 --> 01:16:32,957
6794but let's toss it
6795to a contractor."
6796
67971474
679801:16:33,172 --> 01:16:36,006
6799And he took that patent
6800and used it
6801
68021475
680301:16:36,217 --> 01:16:39,085
6804as the basis for communications
6805
68061476
680701:16:39,303 --> 01:16:41,465
6808from the sonobuoy in the water
6809
68101477
681101:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,592
6812to a passing naval airplane
6813
68141478
681501:16:43,808 --> 01:16:45,424
6816that would also be secure.
6817
68181479
681901:16:47,853 --> 01:16:51,472
6820The inventor
6821of the sonobuoy had a website
6822
68231480
682401:16:51,690 --> 01:16:52,771
6825where he paid tribute
6826
68271481
682801:16:52,983 --> 01:16:56,067
6829to the Markey-Antheil invention.
6830
68311482
683201:16:56,278 --> 01:16:57,189
6833Will you take a look?
6834
68351483
683601:16:57,404 --> 01:16:58,565
6837Sure.
6838
68391484
684001:16:59,824 --> 01:17:00,940
6841A Tribute to Hedy Lamarr
6842
68431485
684401:17:01,158 --> 01:17:03,024
6845by Romuald Scibor-Marchocki.
6846
68471486
684801:17:03,244 --> 01:17:05,327
6849No, I haven't seen this.
6850
68511487
685201:17:05,538 --> 01:17:07,245
6853"I designed the sonobuoy,
6854
68551488
685601:17:07,456 --> 01:17:11,826
6857one of the first deployments
6858of frequency hopping."
6859
68601489
686101:17:12,044 --> 01:17:15,253
6862And he goes on to write
6863about surveillance drones
6864
68651490
686601:17:15,464 --> 01:17:17,296
6867at Aerojet-General.
6868
68691491
687001:17:17,508 --> 01:17:22,424
6871"I was the systems manager
6872building the surveillance drone
6873
68741492
687501:17:22,638 --> 01:17:25,130
6876which eventually
6877flew over Vietnam.
6878
68791493
688001:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,811
6881I personally designed
6882the reliable and secure
6883
68841494
688501:17:32,022 --> 01:17:34,730
6886two-way radio
6887communications system.
6888
68891495
689001:17:34,942 --> 01:17:36,228
6891For the first time,
6892
68931496
689401:17:36,443 --> 01:17:40,778
6895we had the ability
6896to switch frequencies rapidly.
6897
68981497
689901:17:40,990 --> 01:17:43,949
6900Now that I know who invented
6901frequency hopping,
6902
69031498
690401:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,868
6905I, who was the only person
6906who remembers
6907
69081499
690901:17:47,079 --> 01:17:50,447
6910those early applications
6911of this concept,
6912
69131500
691401:17:50,666 --> 01:17:55,001
6915want to express
6916my sincere admiration
6917
69181501
691901:17:55,212 --> 01:17:58,171
6920and belated thanks
6921to Hedy Lamarr."
6922
69231502
692401:18:04,138 --> 01:18:06,130
6925How 'bout them apples?
6926
69271503
692801:18:07,349 --> 01:18:09,136
6929She should have gotten paid.
6930
69311504
693201:18:20,529 --> 01:18:23,522
6933What would you have
6934the government do to repay you?
6935
69361505
693701:18:23,741 --> 01:18:26,905
6938At this point
6939I don't even care.
6940
69411506
694201:18:30,039 --> 01:18:32,497
6943There she is.
6944
69451507
694601:18:32,708 --> 01:18:34,620
6947The Tyrolean beauty.
6948
69491508
695001:18:45,221 --> 01:18:46,928
6951Toward the end of Hedy's life
6952
69531509
695401:18:47,139 --> 01:18:49,973
6955she began to reflect.
6956
69571510
695801:18:50,184 --> 01:18:51,891
6959She began to have insight.
6960
69611511
696201:18:56,857 --> 01:18:59,395
6963Well, things don't always
6964work... straight forward.
6965
69661512
696701:18:59,610 --> 01:19:01,772
6968They have detours sometimes.
6969
69701513
697101:19:01,987 --> 01:19:03,148
6972That's part of living.
6973
69741514
697501:19:03,364 --> 01:19:04,605
6976Yep.
6977
69781515
697901:19:04,823 --> 01:19:08,533
6980I didn't expect that I'd come
6981here and fall apart either
6982
69831516
698401:19:08,744 --> 01:19:10,531
6985but things happen.
6986
69871517
698801:19:12,665 --> 01:19:15,783
6989She always talked about
6990writing her autobiography
6991
69921518
699301:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,038
6994and wanting to get
6995the story out
6996
69971519
699801:19:18,254 --> 01:19:19,870
6999about who the real
7000Hedy Lamarr was,
7001
70021520
700301:19:20,089 --> 01:19:21,546
7004not the Hedy Lamarr
7005in the movies,
7006
70071521
700801:19:21,757 --> 01:19:23,214
7009which I think she often thought
7010
70111522
701201:19:23,425 --> 01:19:25,667
7013movies were really trivial.
7014
70151523
701601:19:25,886 --> 01:19:29,425
7017Now I'm becoming smart
7018all of a sudden.
7019
70201524
702101:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,222
7022Better late than never, right?
7023
70241525
702501:19:31,433 --> 01:19:32,093
7026Absolutely.
7027
70281526
702901:19:32,309 --> 01:19:33,971
7030Maybe someday
7031I'll become smart too.
7032
70331527
703401:19:34,186 --> 01:19:36,178
7035I gave you a little lesson
7036there right now.
7037
70381528
703901:19:36,397 --> 01:19:37,057
7040Yes ma'am.
7041
70421529
704301:19:38,565 --> 01:19:39,772
7044I guess I should let you...
7045
70461530
704701:19:39,984 --> 01:19:40,565
7048I guess you should.
7049
70501531
705101:19:40,776 --> 01:19:42,017
7052...let you go, but...
7053
70541532
705501:19:42,236 --> 01:19:42,817
7056I enjoyed talking.
7057
70581533
705901:19:43,028 --> 01:19:44,519
7060I enjoyed talking to you
7061and perhaps I'll...
7062
70631534
706401:19:44,738 --> 01:19:46,229
7065Maybe you can do some good.
7066
70671535
706801:19:46,448 --> 01:19:47,655
7069I hope so.
7070
70711536
707201:19:49,326 --> 01:19:51,158
7073The article I wrote,
7074
70751537
707601:19:51,370 --> 01:19:53,077
7077I like to think that
7078that was really a part
7079
70801538
708101:19:53,289 --> 01:19:56,077
7082of how she gained recognition.
7083
70841539
708501:19:57,751 --> 01:19:59,037
7086So Forbes magazine,
7087
70881540
708901:19:59,253 --> 01:20:00,289
7090May 1990,
7091
70921541
709301:20:00,504 --> 01:20:03,918
7094this is the first time
7095the mainstream press
7096
70971542
709801:20:04,133 --> 01:20:07,672
7099released the information
7100that Hedy was glamorous, yes,
7101
71021543
710301:20:07,886 --> 01:20:08,842
7104stupid, no.
7105
71061544
710701:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,674
7108I called her and said, you know,
7109"Mom, people are interested
7110
71111545
711201:20:13,892 --> 01:20:18,102
7113in what you thought of
7114back in '42."
7115
71161546
711701:20:18,314 --> 01:20:20,180
7118She said, "It's about time."
7119
71201547
712101:20:23,277 --> 01:20:25,143
7122The first to pick up
7123Hedy's story
7124
71251548
712601:20:25,362 --> 01:20:28,196
7127were people
7128in the communications industry
7129
71301549
713101:20:28,407 --> 01:20:30,490
7132because they realized
7133frequency hopping
7134
71351550
713601:20:30,701 --> 01:20:32,237
7137was revolutionary.
7138
71391551
714001:20:34,079 --> 01:20:37,197
7141It was already finding
7142its way into GPS,
7143
71441552
714501:20:37,416 --> 01:20:40,159
7146Wi-Fi technology, Bluetooth,
7147
71481553
714901:20:40,377 --> 01:20:43,961
7150and billion-dollar
7151military satellites.
7152
71531554
715401:20:44,173 --> 01:20:46,916
7155Five, four, three,
7156
71571555
715801:20:47,134 --> 01:20:48,295
7159Atlas engine ignition,
7160
71611556
716201:20:48,510 --> 01:20:49,751
7163one, zero,
7164
71651557
716601:20:49,970 --> 01:20:52,053
7167and liftoff
7168of Lockheed Martin...
7169
71701558
717101:20:52,264 --> 01:20:55,052
7172The Milstar
7173satellite system provides
7174
71751559
717601:20:55,267 --> 01:20:57,600
7177protected, secure communications
7178
71791560
718001:20:57,811 --> 01:20:59,222
7181for the President
7182of the United States
7183
71841561
718501:20:59,438 --> 01:21:02,181
7186and high priority
7187military users.
7188
71891562
719001:21:02,399 --> 01:21:05,233
7191The work that Hedy Lamarr did
7192in her patent,
7193
71941563
719501:21:05,444 --> 01:21:07,310
7196Milstar took that technology
7197
71981564
719901:21:07,529 --> 01:21:08,895
7200in order to implement
7201frequency hopping
7202
72031565
720401:21:09,114 --> 01:21:10,070
7205on the system.
7206
72071566
720801:21:10,282 --> 01:21:12,194
7209And that's what we trust
7210our most important
7211
72121567
721301:21:12,409 --> 01:21:16,153
7214nuclear command
7215and control messages with.
7216
72171568
721801:21:16,372 --> 01:21:18,989
7219The Navy, Milstar,
7220and Lockheed Martin
7221
72221569
722301:21:19,208 --> 01:21:20,369
7224actually gave Hedy an award
7225
72261570
722701:21:20,584 --> 01:21:23,167
7228thanking her for coming up
7229with her idea.
7230
72311571
723201:21:24,213 --> 01:21:25,169
7233And when I called her, I said,
7234
72351572
723601:21:25,381 --> 01:21:28,124
7237"Mom, they're gonna give you
7238an award,"
7239
72401573
724101:21:28,342 --> 01:21:31,335
7242but she just didn't want
7243to be seen.
7244
72451574
724601:21:31,553 --> 01:21:34,216
7247The award I'm about to present
7248is in recognition
7249
72501575
725101:21:34,431 --> 01:21:36,969
7252of a famous actress
7253turned inventor,
7254
72551576
725601:21:37,184 --> 01:21:38,971
7257Hedy Lamarr.
7258
72591577
726001:21:40,562 --> 01:21:43,430
7261I gave a talk
7262to about 800 people.
7263
72641578
726501:21:43,649 --> 01:21:44,981
7266But right in the middle of it...
7267
72681579
726901:21:45,192 --> 01:21:45,978
7270If I have seen farther...
7271
72721580
727301:21:47,277 --> 01:21:48,484
7274Oh, my God.
7275
72761581
727701:21:50,614 --> 01:21:52,105
7278Are you serious?
7279
72801582
728101:21:53,951 --> 01:21:54,907
7282My mother's here too.
7283
72841583
728501:21:55,119 --> 01:21:56,485
7286I'll tell you
7287a little bit later.
7288
72891584
729001:21:56,703 --> 01:21:58,319
7291Hello?
7292
72931585
729401:21:58,539 --> 01:21:59,495
7295How did it go?
7296
72971586
729801:21:59,706 --> 01:22:01,072
7299I'm in the middle of it.
7300
73011587
730201:22:11,093 --> 01:22:13,301
7303I just said, "Mom,
7304if you could say something,
7305
73061588
730701:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,094
7308what would you say?"
7309
73101589
731101:22:15,305 --> 01:22:17,262
7312And this is what she said.
7313
73141590
731501:22:20,811 --> 01:22:25,055
7316I'm happy that this invention
7317has been so successful.
7318
73191591
732001:22:25,274 --> 01:22:28,233
7321I appreciate your
7322acknowledgement
7323
73241592
732501:22:28,444 --> 01:22:31,061
7326of you honoring me
7327
73281593
732901:22:31,280 --> 01:22:33,897
7330and that it was not done
7331in vain.
7332
73331594
733401:22:34,116 --> 01:22:35,482
7335Thank you.
7336
73371595
733801:22:35,701 --> 01:22:36,361
7339Perfect.
7340
73411596
734201:22:36,577 --> 01:22:37,909
7343- Okay?
7344- Okay.
7345
73461597
734701:22:38,120 --> 01:22:38,735
7348I love you!
7349
73501598
735101:22:38,954 --> 01:22:39,614
7352Love you too.
7353
73541599
735501:22:39,830 --> 01:22:40,866
7356Bye.
7357
73581600
735901:22:47,546 --> 01:22:49,708
7360And they all stood up
7361and clapped.
7362
73631601
736401:22:49,923 --> 01:22:51,380
7365I thought it was really great.
7366
73671602
736801:22:52,885 --> 01:22:55,298
7369She would love to be remembered
7370
73711603
737201:22:55,512 --> 01:22:56,878
7373as someone who contributed
7374
73751604
737601:22:57,097 --> 01:23:00,306
7377to the well-being of humankind.
7378
73791605
738001:23:00,517 --> 01:23:03,760
7381She did make her mark.
7382
73831606
738401:23:03,979 --> 01:23:07,768
7385It's the one thing
7386she did for other people
7387
73881607
738901:23:07,983 --> 01:23:11,192
7390that she's gonna be long,
7391long remembered for.
7392
73931608
739401:23:15,908 --> 01:23:17,115
7395It was New Year's,
7396
73971609
739801:23:17,326 --> 01:23:19,739
7399January 1st, 2000.
7400
74011610
740201:23:19,953 --> 01:23:22,616
7403She called my sister and I
7404separately,
7405
74061611
740701:23:22,831 --> 01:23:24,117
7408"Turn on the TV!
7409
74101612
741101:23:24,333 --> 01:23:25,369
7412It's Vienna, Vienna!
7413
74141613
741501:23:25,584 --> 01:23:26,870
7416You'll see Vienna!"
7417
74181614
741901:23:29,171 --> 01:23:30,207
7420And so we turn on the TV
7421
74221615
742301:23:30,422 --> 01:23:32,084
7424and the Viennese
7425Symphony Orchestra
7426
74271616
742801:23:32,299 --> 01:23:34,165
7429was playing on TV.
7430
74311617
743201:23:40,891 --> 01:23:42,382
7433She died a few days later.
7434
74351618
743601:23:44,019 --> 01:23:46,227
7437She fell asleep
7438and she just didn't wake up.
7439
74401619
744101:23:53,237 --> 01:23:56,025
7442I'll read you something pretty.
7443
74441620
744501:23:56,240 --> 01:24:01,452
7446People are unreasonable,
7447illogical, and self-centered.
7448
74491621
745001:24:01,662 --> 01:24:05,372
7451Love them anyway.
7452
74531622
745401:24:05,582 --> 01:24:07,995
7455If you do good,
7456people will accuse you
7457
74581623
745901:24:08,210 --> 01:24:11,374
7460of selfish alternative motives.
7461
74621624
746301:24:11,588 --> 01:24:12,999
7464Do good anyway.
7465
74661625
746701:24:16,385 --> 01:24:19,173
7468The biggest people
7469with the biggest ideas
7470
74711626
747201:24:19,388 --> 01:24:20,720
7473can be shot down
7474
74751627
747601:24:20,931 --> 01:24:24,424
7477by the smallest people
7478with the smallest minds.
7479
74801628
748101:24:24,643 --> 01:24:26,760
7482Think big anyway.
7483
74841629
748501:24:29,773 --> 01:24:31,685
7486What you spend years building
7487
74881630
748901:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,643
7490may be destroyed overnight.
7491
74921631
749301:24:34,861 --> 01:24:37,399
7494Build anyway.
7495
74961632
749701:24:37,614 --> 01:24:39,571
7498Give the world
7499the best you have
7500
75011633
750201:24:39,783 --> 01:24:42,821
7503and you'll be kicked
7504into the teeth.
7505
75061634
750701:24:43,036 --> 01:24:45,995
7508Give the world
7509the best you've got anyway.