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Hannah Howe

Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. From an early age, she developed a fascination for acting and inventing, two interests that dominated her life. She made her movie debut in Money on the Street a 1930 Austrian-German romantic-comedy, appearing as an extra.

@HannahHowe she was famous for her looks, but not her in incredible invention. She wasn’t included in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the development of her frequency hopping technology until 14 years after her 2014.

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A fascinating woman in all sorts of ways.

"Lamarr’s com­bi­na­tion of sci­en­tif­ic and cin­e­mat­ic suc­cess has over­shad­owed a more hid­den one; glam­orous and brainy Hedy Lamarr was once Hedy Kiesler, an ambi­tious young Jew­ish woman forced by cir­cum­stance to aban­don her home in Europe and start over in Amer­i­ca as a refugee."
jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily

Jewish Book CouncilFrequency Hopping: The Jewish Identity of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s BooksWho do we decide to showcase in children’s literature and what do we highlight about them?