Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

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<i>Hedy wanted to do</i>

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<i>something important
with her life.</i>

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<i>She wanted to make her mark.</i>

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<i>But she was totally judged
by that face.</i>

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One of the most
glamorous stars

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show business
ever has produced...

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One of the most glamorous stars
the screen has ever known...

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And one of the most beautiful
women in the world...

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Well, shall we all
say it together?

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- I think we all know.
- ♪ The most beautiful girl

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in the world ♪

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Hedy Lamarr.

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<i>She becomes the model
for Snow White.</i>

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<i>And she inspired Catwoman.</i>

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Oh, my God, I mean, she was...

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she was the best-looking
movie star that ever lived.

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She became my inspiration.

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Thank you, thank you,
Hedy, thank you.

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It's not Hedy, it's Hedley,
Hedley LaMarr.

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I don't know whether it's true,
but you hear things.

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I heard that she was
a scientist.

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So is this true?

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Within the nerd community
at Google,

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Hedy Lamarr was
this beloved figure.

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For me, she is
this perfect underdog,

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like,
crime-fighter-by-night story

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because she lived this life
of great accomplishments

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and people
didn't really know about it.

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I remember sitting up
in a bare attic with my mother,

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she said,
"Look, I got a patent."

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"You got a patent, Mom?"

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- "Yeah."
- "You invented something?"

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"Yeah, I invented a secret
communication system, look."

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And, today, we have Wi-Fi
and Bluetooth.

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That's my mother's technology.

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You see?

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No.

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Well, it is kind of hard
to explain.

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Hedy had one of the most
recognizable faces of her time,

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and yet, she said
she was never seen

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for who she was.

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So, who was she?

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Tell me something
that I didn't know about you.

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I want to be a simple... I am!

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I'm a very simple,
complicated person.

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Could you help her?

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- Yes, but not here.
- But you know what I mean?

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You know what I mean!

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This book you're writing now,
Hedy, are there...

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Incidents, things that
nobody ever knew about me.

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- Regrets?
- Oh, no, no regrets.

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You learn from everything
all the time.

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When I was a child,

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she was always working
on her story.

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She was going to let
the world know her version

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and her story
and her autobiography

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in her words, but yet,
it never came to be.

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Hedy became a recluse.

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She wouldn't even see
her family.

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We wanted to spend time
with her,

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but she kept us away.

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There was so much scandal.

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There were different chapters
of scandal.

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There was her movie <i>Ecstasy</i>
that she made as an adolescent,

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the nudity and the explicitness
of that,

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and then the multiple
marriages and divorces,

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and then the arrests.

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My mother has a hard side
and an easy side,

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and as her son, growing up
with Hedy was difficult.

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I mean, she had so many sides
and so many faces,

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and even I couldn't understand
who Hedy Lamarr was.

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I'd been waiting for somebody
to contact me

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about Hedy Lamarr

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because I had the tapes.

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Where did I find it?

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It's embarrassing.

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I found it
behind that blue trash can.

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I'd had stuff stowed there
and I moved it out of the way,

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and there it was.

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So, in all,
there were four tapes

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and this is the first one.

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Ready?

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<i>Yes?</i>

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<i>This is Fleming Meeks
at Forbes.</i>

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<i>Oh, hello! Thank you so much
for the roses.</i>

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<i>You're very welcome.</i>

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<i>I love them!</i>

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<i>I'm very pleased.</i>

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I was a staff writer at <i>Forbes</i>

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and my father was
an astrophysicist at MIT,

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and he called me one day,
and he said,

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"I've just talked
with this friend of mine here

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and he told me
this amazing story

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about Hedy Lamarr,"
and, of course, I pursued it.

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<i>I want to sell my life story
to Ted Turner</i>

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<i>because it's unbelievable.</i>

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<i>The opposite
of what people think.</i>

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<i>The brains of people
are more interesting</i>

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<i>than the looks, I think.</i>

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<i>People have the idea
I'm sort of a stupid thing.</i>

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<i>I never knew I looked good
to begin with.</i>

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<i>Because my mother
wanted a boy</i>

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<i>named Georg (George).</i>

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<i>So unfortunately
I didn't become that and...</i>

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<i>she wasn't too thrilled
about that.</i>

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<i>I was...</i>

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<i>different, I guess.</i>

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<i>Maybe I came from
a different planet, who knows.</i>

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<i>But whatever it is...</i>

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<i>inventions are easy
for me to do.</i>

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My mother was very inventive.

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In this article,
"Hedy's interest in gadgets

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really started
at the age of five

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when she took
an old-fashioned music box apart

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and put it
back together again."

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And this was
her childhood music box.

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You wind up
this little rabbit here

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and it plays
an Austrian melody.

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My mother was curious.

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She had a very intellectually
curious mind.

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She wanted to know
how things worked,

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and her father told her things.

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Although her father's
official position

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was as bank director,

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he was also interested
in technology.

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So, when they went
for their walks,

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he would point out to her
how things worked.

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The streetcar
with its electric trolleys

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leads these wires
to a factory

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that generates electricity.

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She learned
to associate invention

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with this father,
whom she adored.

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<i>My father...</i>

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<i>He was a wonderful person.</i>

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<i>I miss him.</i>

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They lived in Vienna
in a fashionable district,

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the 19th District.

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It was heavily Jewish

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but also
very artistically inclined.

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Hedy's parents were both
assimilated Jews.

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That was very common in
the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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They were wealthy,
they were cultured.

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They took their daughter
to the opera, to the theater.

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Everyone was connected with
this world of make believe.

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<i>I miss Austria.</i>

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<i>Have you ever been there?</i>

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<i>I've been to Austria, yes.</i>

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<i>Not Vienna?</i>

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<i>Fall is the best time
to go there.</i>

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<i>Where did you go to school?</i>

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<i>In a private school in Vienna.</i>

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<i>My favorite thing in school
was...</i>

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<i>What's that thing
when you mix things?</i>

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<i>- Chemistry.
- Chemistry! Thank you.</i>

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<i>Well I'm good at that.</i>

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In a different era,

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she might very well
have become a scientist.

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At the very least,
it's an option

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that was derailed by her beauty.

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By the time she was a teenager,

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when she walked into a room,
conversation stopped.

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She was probably
a little dazzled by this power,

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testing it out,

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seeing how it works
and so forth.

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<i>There's a word for what I was.</i>

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<i>A... what?</i>

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<i>'Enfant terrible.'</i>

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<i>I know that.
I know that much French.</i>

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<i>Well good!</i>

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There are stories about her
heading to the photographer

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to get her photos taken
with and without clothes.

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She lived in a society
where there were

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many prominent women who had
not only incredible careers,

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but loads of lovers.

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Women, especially in the arts,

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could have certain
kinds of liberties

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that they would not find
in normal bourgeois society.

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Hedy decided one day,
at the age of 16,

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that she was ready

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and went off to the largest
film studio and walked in.

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Very quickly,
within a couple days,

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they had her in a walk-on.

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I have seen
the little weird Viennese films

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that she made in the beginning

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where she's
a little bit awkward

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but clearly beautiful.

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But it's clearly
the 1933 film <i>Ecstasy</i>

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that really brought her
into everyone's consciousness.

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Hedy became world famous

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the moment she appeared naked
in <i>Ecstasy.</i>

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The Pope denounced it

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and Hitler refused it
to be shown.

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People were just shocked by it.

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It was quite controversial
because she simulated an orgasm.

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I think it was the first time
anybody had ever done that.

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I mean, in some ways,
it was analogous to a sex tape.

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This was so scandalous
and really marked her

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as this certain type of woman.

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<i>I don't know
if you ever saw that.</i>

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<i>I don't believe I have.</i>

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<i>There was a scene
in which I was totally alone</i>

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<i>but it was cut so that it</i>

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<i>showed that it was
a very hot sex scene,</i>

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<i>which it wasn't.</i>

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<i>You must have seen
a picture of that, right?</i>

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<i>Yes, ma'am.</i>

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<i>And I said, "Why do I have
to put my arms together?"</i>

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<i>And they said,
"Don't ask so many questions."</i>

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<i>"If you don't do what I say
then I put the needle</i>

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<i>through the couch
so you do what I tell you."</i>

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<i>And I was...</i>

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<i>I didn't want to make any
commotion, so I did that.</i>

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<i>And when I came back to Vienna</i>

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<i>my father... I mean...</i>

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<i>it was horrendous.</i>

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<i>He wanted to kill me
practically.</i>

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<i>What I did though...</i>

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<i>right after that</i>

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<i>I said, "I'll show them."</i>

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<i>Fritz Kreisler
composed a musical called</i>

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<i>'Elisabeth of Austria, '
the Queen of Austria,</i>

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<i>and I had a big, big, big
success with that.</i>

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<i>On stage.</i>

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<i>I had ovations</i>

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<i>and my father cried.</i>

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<i>And then I got married
right after that.</i>

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Hedwig, as an actress,

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drew, of course,
the attention of many people,

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and one of those was
a man named Fritz Mandl.

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I was married to
a munitions tycoon in Austria!

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He is the Henry Ford of Austria.

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He, at that point,
is 14 years her senior.

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He is allied with the Nazis

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because he's
an armaments manufacturer.

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As it is the same today,

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a lot of wealthy men would like
to decorate themselves

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with beautiful women,
and I think she was,

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for a minute,
fascinated with that as well.

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<i>We had a country house
with 25 guest rooms.</i>

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<i>And we went hunting.</i>

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<i>And I loved that.</i>

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<i>Do you know guns?</i>

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<i>Yes.</i>

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<i>I had a Browning
and I shot a stag into the neck</i>

245
00:14:06,304 --> 00:14:08,091
<i>350 meters.</i>

246
00:14:08,306 --> 00:14:09,262
<i>Meters? Very long.</i>

247
00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,466
<i>I'm a good shot
so be careful!</i>

248
00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:17,180
Hedy was Mandl's armpiece

249
00:14:17,398 --> 00:14:19,310
at the banquets that he served

250
00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:23,109
for admirals
in the German and Italian Navy.

251
00:14:23,321 --> 00:14:26,064
She sat there and it was
her job to be beautiful,

252
00:14:26,282 --> 00:14:29,070
but she was bored
out of her mind.

253
00:14:32,747 --> 00:14:36,787
Fritz Mandl was,
by German measures, Jewish,

254
00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:39,163
and therefore,
Hitler was concerned

255
00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:40,335
not to be seen with him,

256
00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:43,038
and I doubt very much
if Hitler was a guest

257
00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:46,091
at one of their houses,
but Mussolini was.

258
00:14:50,014 --> 00:14:51,846
<i>I assume that
your first husband</i>

259
00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:53,594
<i>was supplying arms to the...</i>

260
00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:56,223
<i>To the Germans.</i>

261
00:14:56,437 --> 00:14:57,223
<i>But he never let me in on...</i>

262
00:14:57,438 --> 00:15:00,647
<i>He never even let me
come into the factory.</i>

263
00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:01,848
<i>I disturbed the people.</i>

264
00:15:02,068 --> 00:15:03,184
<i>I didn't know why...</i>

265
00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:06,520
Fritz did not like the effect

266
00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:10,232
that his beautiful wife had
on other men.

267
00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:15,196
He was immensely jealous
and paranoid about his wife.

268
00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:18,415
He was constantly convinced

269
00:15:18,626 --> 00:15:22,210
that she might be having
an affair.

270
00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:24,914
<i>The big mistake
my husband at the time did</i>

271
00:15:25,133 --> 00:15:27,466
<i>he bought up prints of that...</i>

272
00:15:27,677 --> 00:15:29,543
<i>dumb picture!</i>

273
00:15:29,762 --> 00:15:32,254
Mandl had the problem
of this film,

274
00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:36,012
this dirty picture
which he tried to buy up,

275
00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:39,095
and they started cranking
them out by the dozens,

276
00:15:39,313 --> 00:15:42,272
and he eventually gave up
because, obviously,

277
00:15:42,483 --> 00:15:45,442
they could make as many copies
as he chose to buy.

278
00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:50,405
He turned out to be someone
who had the maids listen in

279
00:15:50,616 --> 00:15:52,152
on her phone calls.

280
00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:54,576
She had everything
she could ever want,

281
00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:58,997
except the one thing that
Hedwig Kiesler always wanted

282
00:15:59,208 --> 00:16:00,619
which was freedom.

283
00:16:06,007 --> 00:16:08,841
By 1937,
the war was inevitable,

284
00:16:09,051 --> 00:16:11,293
and she was
in a desperate situation.

285
00:16:11,512 --> 00:16:12,719
<i>Because after all,</i>

286
00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:15,923
<i>Hitler had everything
in the palm of his hand.</i>

287
00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:18,099
When <i>Ecstasy</i> was released,

288
00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:21,930
Hitler told the American press
he was banning it

289
00:16:22,148 --> 00:16:25,061
because the lead actress
was Jewish.

290
00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:33,107
Jewish people were not allowed
out on streets

291
00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:36,194
at certain times of the day
and, gradually,

292
00:16:36,412 --> 00:16:40,281
they were denied
more and more civil rights.

293
00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:41,832
And this is one thing that led

294
00:16:42,043 --> 00:16:46,629
to Hedy's father Emil's death
was his stress and worry

295
00:16:46,839 --> 00:16:49,923
about what was happening.

296
00:16:50,134 --> 00:16:52,217
He died suddenly
from a heart attack.

297
00:16:53,804 --> 00:16:56,421
And I think that was
the turning point for her.

298
00:16:57,892 --> 00:17:01,511
Deep traumatic experiences
change us,

299
00:17:01,729 --> 00:17:03,641
and she came out the other side

300
00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:08,351
remembering what her father
had advised her from childhood:

301
00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:10,185
"Be yourself.

302
00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:12,817
Choose and take what you want,"

303
00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:16,196
which was certainly
Hedy's quality all her life.

304
00:17:19,121 --> 00:17:20,362
There are stories,

305
00:17:20,581 --> 00:17:22,038
whether they're apocryphal
or not,

306
00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,163
who knows, but almost like
a prison escape.

307
00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,170
Hedy had people watching her
all the time.

308
00:17:29,382 --> 00:17:31,089
There was no way
to break loose.

309
00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,134
So, one night,
they were having a dinner party,

310
00:17:34,345 --> 00:17:37,884
and my mother
helped choose the maids

311
00:17:38,099 --> 00:17:40,967
and caretakers,
and so she found someone

312
00:17:41,185 --> 00:17:44,223
that looked like her a lot
'cause she had this in mind.

313
00:17:44,438 --> 00:17:46,304
So, she had
this sleeping powder,

314
00:17:46,524 --> 00:17:47,890
and she made this tea

315
00:17:48,109 --> 00:17:51,819
and she switched the cups
with the maid,

316
00:17:52,029 --> 00:17:53,770
and the maid drank it
and kind of fell asleep.

317
00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,106
Now my mother's all ready.

318
00:17:55,324 --> 00:17:56,565
She took all her jewels,

319
00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:58,275
put 'em in the lining
of her coats.

320
00:17:58,494 --> 00:17:59,951
She put on the maid's costume.

321
00:18:00,162 --> 00:18:02,700
She jumped on her bicycle
and rode off.

322
00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,703
<i>My parents had friends
in England.</i>

323
00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:11,629
<i>So I went there.</i>

324
00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,843
Pre-war London
was a safe haven.

325
00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:18,966
Hedy spent several months there

326
00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:21,514
trying to figure out
her next steps.

327
00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:24,468
<i>We one day went to a movie.</i>

328
00:18:24,687 --> 00:18:27,145
<i>I forgot even what it was.</i>

329
00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:29,973
<i>And they happened
to have a lion.</i>

330
00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:33,276
<i>You know, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.</i>

331
00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:35,524
<i>So I said,
"Oh I want to be in that!"</i>

332
00:18:36,991 --> 00:18:40,530
She quickly found
an American film agent.

333
00:18:41,662 --> 00:18:44,279
<i>Somebody took me to a hotel</i>

334
00:18:44,498 --> 00:18:46,740
<i>and there was
a little man there.</i>

335
00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,370
<i>I didn't know who he was,
what he was.</i>

336
00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,703
<i>I couldn't speak English,
obviously.</i>

337
00:18:50,921 --> 00:18:52,287
<i>Louis B. Mayer
was the little man.</i>

338
00:18:52,506 --> 00:18:53,121
<i>That was Louis B. Mayer?</i>

339
00:18:53,341 --> 00:18:55,173
<i>With his entourage, yeah.</i>

340
00:18:56,510 --> 00:18:58,297
Louis B. Mayer,
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

341
00:18:58,512 --> 00:19:02,347
had come to Europe to buy up
all the actors and actresses

342
00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:04,675
who were escaping Nazi Germany.

343
00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:07,261
He figured he could take them
back to Hollywood

344
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,645
and enslave them in
his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer empire

345
00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:14,021
for a cheap price.

346
00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:18,697
He offered her $125 a week
and reminded her

347
00:19:18,908 --> 00:19:21,696
that she had to keep
her clothes on.

348
00:19:21,911 --> 00:19:24,278
And she said, "I'm sorry,
that's not good enough,"

349
00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:25,783
and walked out.

350
00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:27,489
She impressed him, I'm sure.

351
00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:30,951
People didn't usually turn down
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

352
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,295
But minutes
after she walked out,

353
00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:35,793
she had second thoughts

354
00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,842
and quickly booked passage
on the Normandie,

355
00:19:39,053 --> 00:19:42,171
the ship Mayer was sailing
back to New York.

356
00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:47,133
She, I think,
probably rather cleverly

357
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:50,266
made sure that she saw him
about the decks

358
00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,063
in her tennis clothes
and so forth,

359
00:19:52,274 --> 00:19:53,390
in her bathing suit.

360
00:19:56,112 --> 00:19:58,320
On the first
or second night out,

361
00:19:58,531 --> 00:20:02,024
Hedy went
to her very modest cabin

362
00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:06,283
and pulled out
her designer couturier gown

363
00:20:06,497 --> 00:20:10,411
and she put on
the last baubles that she owned

364
00:20:10,626 --> 00:20:12,743
and she walked
through the dining room

365
00:20:12,962 --> 00:20:16,797
of the Normandie,
past Louis B. Mayer's table.

366
00:20:20,302 --> 00:20:23,466
There's Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
sitting right there,

367
00:20:23,681 --> 00:20:27,140
and his eyes are glued
to Hedy Lamarr,

368
00:20:27,351 --> 00:20:30,014
as are the eyes
of every man and woman

369
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,562
in that dining room.

370
00:20:32,773 --> 00:20:36,312
And Louis B. Mayer knew
he had to have her.

371
00:20:36,527 --> 00:20:37,768
<i>He snapped his fingers</i>

372
00:20:37,987 --> 00:20:40,445
<i>and I didn't know why,
I didn't know what...</i>

373
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:44,445
<i>all of a sudden
I got $500 every week.</i>

374
00:20:44,660 --> 00:20:47,198
Hedy Kiesler,
Hedy Kiesler, Kiesler.

375
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,530
We gotta do something
about the name.

376
00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:52,617
So, Louis B. Mayer's wife
was there and she said,

377
00:20:52,835 --> 00:20:54,747
"Well, Barbara La Marr
is one of my favorites.

378
00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:56,669
Why not Hedy Lamarr?"

379
00:20:56,881 --> 00:20:58,167
Lamarr, the sea, perfect.

380
00:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,589
Let's be Hedy Lamarr.

381
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,211
She didn't speak
a word of English.

382
00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:07,138
She learned those few lines
on the boat to convince

383
00:21:07,349 --> 00:21:09,636
Louis B. Mayer that he should
hire her as an actress.

384
00:21:11,145 --> 00:21:12,932
She created her own reality,

385
00:21:13,147 --> 00:21:14,638
and I find that
really fascinating.

386
00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:18,607
<i>You know, when things
don't come easy</i>

387
00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,230
<i>figure out why...</i>

388
00:21:20,446 --> 00:21:23,063
<i>and then do something about it.</i>

389
00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:25,649
<i>And if people...
walk over you</i>

390
00:21:25,868 --> 00:21:27,404
<i>then don't let them!</i>

391
00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:31,363
She stepped off
the ship in New York

392
00:21:31,582 --> 00:21:34,120
to crowds
of flashing light bulbs

393
00:21:34,335 --> 00:21:39,126
and reporters firing questions
at her as Hedy Lamarr,

394
00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:42,128
the latest discovery
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

395
00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:50,639
Hello, everybody,

396
00:21:50,851 --> 00:21:52,808
this is Hedda Hopper
reporting to you from Hollywood,

397
00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,478
that fabulous place
where everyone wants to live

398
00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:56,725
but seldom does.

399
00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:03,937
In Hollywood,
she was kicking her heels

400
00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:07,115
and listening to music
and being free.

401
00:22:09,453 --> 00:22:12,161
She was a little bit worried
because the contract,

402
00:22:12,373 --> 00:22:14,990
it had kind of a trial time
before they used her,

403
00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,292
and she wasn't getting
any movies or parts

404
00:22:17,503 --> 00:22:20,996
and she was very insecure
that they didn't want her,

405
00:22:21,215 --> 00:22:22,547
especially since
she made <i>Ecstasy</i>

406
00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:26,342
and that was kind of
a black mark on her.

407
00:22:26,554 --> 00:22:29,012
Right from the beginning,
one of her first interviews

408
00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,136
is with Hedda Hopper, who was
the famous gossip columnist.

409
00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:34,388
That's where she does
her greatest acting

410
00:22:34,603 --> 00:22:37,220
is for Hedda Hopper,
crying tears

411
00:22:37,439 --> 00:22:39,476
about how she was forced
into this nude scene

412
00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:43,185
and somehow perverted
by these European filmmakers

413
00:22:43,404 --> 00:22:46,272
who have no morals whatsoever.

414
00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,992
And then,
my mother went to a party

415
00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,743
by chance one night,
and Charles Boyer was there

416
00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:57,540
and he was smitten by her.

417
00:22:57,751 --> 00:23:00,789
And he said,
"Can you be in my movie?"

418
00:23:01,005 --> 00:23:04,339
"Oh, no, no, no, my English
isn't good enough, no."

419
00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:07,258
And he took her hand, kissed it,
he said, "I'll hold your hand

420
00:23:07,469 --> 00:23:08,926
through the whole film."

421
00:23:09,138 --> 00:23:10,219
- "You will?"
- "Yes."

422
00:23:10,431 --> 00:23:11,763
"All right, I'll do it."

423
00:23:11,974 --> 00:23:13,340
So, that's how that started.

424
00:23:19,315 --> 00:23:22,524
Charles Boyer
was a diamond thief.

425
00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:24,852
She had diamonds.

426
00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:30,111
He thought she was a wealthy,
noble-born French woman.

427
00:23:30,326 --> 00:23:33,160
He didn't realize that she was
another scamp like him

428
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:34,702
from the streets of Paris.

429
00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:39,745
There's a wonderful line
in the film where he says,

430
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,496
"What did you do before?"

431
00:23:41,712 --> 00:23:43,920
Before what?

432
00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:45,793
Before the jewels.

433
00:23:46,008 --> 00:23:48,341
I wanted them.

434
00:23:48,552 --> 00:23:50,384
That film made her
a star instantly.

435
00:23:53,474 --> 00:23:57,013
When I was a kid,
I saw her in <i>Algiers,</i>

436
00:23:57,227 --> 00:23:59,219
I said,
"I'm gonna get to Hollywood

437
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,350
and I'm gonna marry her.

438
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:03,227
And if I don't get to marry her,

439
00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:04,432
I'll get to buy her dinner

440
00:24:04,652 --> 00:24:06,063
and feel her up under the table.

441
00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:07,143
Whatever I can get."

442
00:24:10,366 --> 00:24:14,280
After <i>Algiers,</i>
Hedy Lamarr was on the cover

443
00:24:14,495 --> 00:24:16,157
of all the movie magazines.

444
00:24:16,372 --> 00:24:19,706
Suddenly,
you have in Hollywood,

445
00:24:19,917 --> 00:24:23,501
a lot of women parting
their hair in the middle,

446
00:24:23,712 --> 00:24:26,125
darkening it,
and changing their makeup

447
00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:29,799
to be little Hedy Lamarrs.

448
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:32,002
Every woman wanted to be Hedy

449
00:24:32,221 --> 00:24:34,258
and every man
wanted to date her.

450
00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:37,261
She seduced men and women.

451
00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:41,015
She was able to meet
artists, directors,

452
00:24:41,230 --> 00:24:44,439
brilliant actors,
the greats at that time.

453
00:24:45,985 --> 00:24:48,227
<i>Including Kennedy,
whom I knew very well.</i>

454
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:49,185
<i>Oh really?</i>

455
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:51,362
<i>Yeah,
before he became president.</i>

456
00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:53,109
<i>He asked me out.</i>

457
00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,442
<i>So he said,
"What can I bring you?"</i>

458
00:24:55,661 --> 00:24:57,823
<i>and I said, "Oranges,"
because...</i>

459
00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:01,031
<i>I lack vitamin C.</i>

460
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:02,457
<i>Would you believe
any other person</i>

461
00:25:02,668 --> 00:25:05,001
<i>would've asked, "Oranges"?</i>

462
00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:06,293
<i>That's the way I am.</i>

463
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,167
<i>A fool!</i>

464
00:25:08,382 --> 00:25:10,294
No matter what,
you expect Hedy Lamarr

465
00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:13,377
to be glamorous, sophisticated.

466
00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:15,552
Quite the opposite,
she loved picnics,

467
00:25:15,764 --> 00:25:17,926
she loved to go
scavenger hunting,

468
00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:19,633
she loved to play Charades.

469
00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:24,142
She wasn't very good at it,
but she had a great time.

470
00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,097
You know, no pretenses.

471
00:25:26,316 --> 00:25:28,273
She was fun to be with.

472
00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,145
At that point,
she could have married anyone.

473
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:33,821
She surprised her fans

474
00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:36,320
by choosing
a portly screenwriter

475
00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:39,619
and producer
named Gene Markey.

476
00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:44,624
Her letters show she was
madly in love with him.

477
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,794
<i>"Dearest Mommy,
I never would have thought</i>

478
00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:51,669
<i>that I could ever fall
in love again.</i>

479
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,171
<i>Gene has an unbelievable number
of traits</i>

480
00:25:54,386 --> 00:25:56,218
<i>in common with Dad.</i>

481
00:25:56,430 --> 00:25:59,639
<i>So considerate, it's touching."</i>

482
00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:03,093
He promised Hedy he'd write
screenplays with her.

483
00:26:03,312 --> 00:26:05,679
They even adopted a son.

484
00:26:05,898 --> 00:26:08,015
But within months
of their marriage,

485
00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:11,897
he began dating
other beautiful actresses.

486
00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:14,104
Hedy was heartbroken.

487
00:26:14,323 --> 00:26:17,657
She said people
never got past her face.

488
00:26:17,868 --> 00:26:20,201
You never knew
if they loved you

489
00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:23,155
or their fantasy of you.

490
00:26:23,373 --> 00:26:25,911
"A man does not try
to find out what is inside.

491
00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:28,584
He does not try
to scratch the surface.

492
00:26:28,796 --> 00:26:31,288
If he did, he might find
something much more beautiful

493
00:26:31,507 --> 00:26:34,591
than the shape of a nose
or the color of an eye."

494
00:26:37,888 --> 00:26:39,754
Only a year after <i>Algiers,</i>

495
00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:42,215
not only was
her marriage failing,

496
00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:45,427
her career was in trouble
as well.

497
00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:48,935
She was terribly unhappy
with the films she did for MGM

498
00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,687
because Louis B. Mayer
gave her bad scripts

499
00:26:51,902 --> 00:26:54,269
and the films did nothing.

500
00:26:54,488 --> 00:26:56,354
You never got very much
out of this, did you?

501
00:26:56,573 --> 00:26:57,654
I got plenty.

502
00:26:57,866 --> 00:27:00,734
All I asked for,
except the frosting.

503
00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:02,569
<i>Hedy actually went
to Louis B. Mayer</i>

504
00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:05,747
<i>and petitioned for a role
in Boom Town.</i>

505
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:07,870
I'm going to do it
because I want to.

506
00:27:08,085 --> 00:27:09,246
<i>It was a small part,</i>

507
00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:12,545
<i>and Louis B. Mayer,
at first, was reluctant.</i>

508
00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:13,917
Okay, stranger.

509
00:27:17,219 --> 00:27:20,303
<i>Boom Town</i> was a huge,
tremendous success

510
00:27:20,514 --> 00:27:22,096
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

511
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:23,093
After <i>Boom Town,</i>

512
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:27,052
Hedy Lamarr's career was secure.

513
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:32,107
It's almost unfathomable
how busy she was in 1940.

514
00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:39,148
They were expected to do
what the studio wanted.

515
00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:42,325
Bette Davis described it
as a "slave system."

516
00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:44,152
And they were owned
in the sense

517
00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:47,114
that they had signed contracts

518
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:51,451
that bound them to studios
for seven-year periods.

519
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,332
My mother was worked
like a racehorse.

520
00:27:53,547 --> 00:27:56,164
She had to run fast
all the time.

521
00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:58,375
They gave her pills
to wake her up to perform.

522
00:27:58,594 --> 00:28:01,678
Pretty sure it was
some form of speed.

523
00:28:01,889 --> 00:28:05,303
And then, to make them sleep,
they gave them sleeping pills.

524
00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:09,477
They worked six days a week.

525
00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:12,271
Women really had to get
to the studio early

526
00:28:12,482 --> 00:28:14,974
because they had to have
their hair done,

527
00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:18,437
their makeup put on,
their costumes put on.

528
00:28:18,655 --> 00:28:22,274
And then, you know,
they worked into the night.

529
00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:24,404
And here's what's remarkable.

530
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,907
After a grueling day
on the set,

531
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,829
Hedy didn't go to bed.

532
00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:30,828
She wasn't socializing.

533
00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:34,286
Hedy was at home working
on her latest invention.

534
00:28:39,176 --> 00:28:41,168
Inventing was her hobby.

535
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:44,845
She not only had
a complete inventing table

536
00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:46,844
set up in her house,

537
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:50,928
but Howard Hughes gave her
a small version

538
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,638
of the set of equipment
which he had in the trailer

539
00:28:53,857 --> 00:28:56,190
where she stayed
in between takes

540
00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:57,767
in her motion pictures.

541
00:28:59,488 --> 00:29:01,480
When Hedy first met
Howard Hughes,

542
00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:04,065
he was dating
every Hollywood star,

543
00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:06,321
and she did date him.

544
00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:10,200
Howard Hughes, of course,
was a great airplane designer,

545
00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:12,281
so probably they had

546
00:29:12,501 --> 00:29:15,585
a compatible spirit
with one another.

547
00:29:15,796 --> 00:29:18,504
It was definitely cerebral
because she said

548
00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:21,332
he was the worst lover
she ever had.

549
00:29:22,844 --> 00:29:24,255
Howard Hughes wanted to build

550
00:29:24,471 --> 00:29:26,713
the fastest planes
in the world

551
00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:29,640
so he could sell them
to the Air Force.

552
00:29:29,851 --> 00:29:33,686
She was fascinated by his mind
and his factories,

553
00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:35,980
and she wanted to go and see

554
00:29:36,191 --> 00:29:37,602
where everything
was being made and built,

555
00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:39,480
and she met all the scientists.

556
00:29:39,695 --> 00:29:40,936
He said to her,

557
00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:43,396
"Anything you want my scientists
to do for you,

558
00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:46,278
just ask 'em
and they will do it."

559
00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:50,035
<i>He relied on me.</i>

560
00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,081
<i>I thought the aeroplanes
were too slow,</i>

561
00:29:53,292 --> 00:29:55,124
<i>so I decided that's not right.</i>

562
00:29:55,335 --> 00:29:58,294
<i>They shouldn't be square,
the wings...</i>

563
00:29:58,505 --> 00:30:00,292
<i>So I bought a book of fish</i>

564
00:30:00,507 --> 00:30:02,169
<i>and I bought a book of birds</i>

565
00:30:02,384 --> 00:30:04,341
<i>and then used the fastest bird,</i>

566
00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:07,136
<i>connected it with
the fastest fish.</i>

567
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,464
<i>I drew it together
and showed it to Howard Hughes</i>

568
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,925
<i>and he said,
"You're a genius."</i>

569
00:30:12,144 --> 00:30:13,180
<i>- You did?
- Yep.</i>

570
00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:16,353
<i>Yeah.</i>

571
00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:21,938
<i>Very strange person that was.</i>

572
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:23,315
<i>Very brilliant.</i>

573
00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:25,897
<i>But very misunderstood as well.</i>

574
00:30:27,451 --> 00:30:30,694
She invented,
during that period,

575
00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:34,952
a tablet that would fizz up
and make a cola.

576
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:39,127
<i>I had two chemists Howard
Hughes gave me to do that.</i>

577
00:30:39,338 --> 00:30:41,330
<i>You know, during the war
nobody had Coca-Cola</i>

578
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:44,712
<i>and I wanted to compress it
into a cube</i>

579
00:30:44,926 --> 00:30:48,260
<i>so that servicemen
and factory people,</i>

580
00:30:48,472 --> 00:30:52,716
<i>all they had to
have was water and put it in.</i>

581
00:30:52,934 --> 00:30:55,142
<i>But I didn't realize
that every state</i>

582
00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:58,438
<i>has different
strengths of water,</i>

583
00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:01,265
<i>so it dissolved on the bottom,
on top, in the middle.</i>

584
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:03,101
<i>It was one of my boo boos.</i>

585
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,403
<i>I didn't do that right.</i>

586
00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:08,197
<i>But I don't have to work
on ideas.</i>

587
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:09,865
<i>They come naturally.</i>

588
00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:14,495
What must have been going
through the mind

589
00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:16,322
of this young woman.

590
00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:21,286
She's become
a huge international film star.

591
00:31:21,505 --> 00:31:24,088
But at the very same time,
her country,

592
00:31:24,299 --> 00:31:28,168
the past as she has known it,
has been eliminated.

593
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,093
In 1940,
the war was raging in Europe

594
00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:36,221
and the United States
was a neutral country,

595
00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:38,143
and Hitler
was basically taking over

596
00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:40,017
all of Western Europe

597
00:31:40,232 --> 00:31:42,599
and threatening
to take over Great Britain.

598
00:31:42,818 --> 00:31:44,229
If only I could do something.

599
00:31:44,444 --> 00:31:46,606
Oh, darling,
you've done so much already.

600
00:31:46,822 --> 00:31:50,987
You almost made me forget
about being afraid.

601
00:31:51,201 --> 00:31:53,614
Oh, I am afraid now.

602
00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,405
She did have a secret.

603
00:31:57,624 --> 00:32:00,207
When Hedy arrived
at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

604
00:32:00,419 --> 00:32:04,459
Louis B. Mayer specifically
ordered all of his stars

605
00:32:04,673 --> 00:32:08,087
not to talk about
their religious backgrounds.

606
00:32:08,301 --> 00:32:09,917
People would say,
"You're Jewish,"

607
00:32:10,137 --> 00:32:13,005
and I'm like, "No,"
and I called Mom and said,

608
00:32:13,223 --> 00:32:14,885
"Mom, are we Jewish,"
and she said,

609
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:17,217
"Don't be ridiculous."

610
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:23,727
I never heard the word "Jewish"
from my mother's lips.

611
00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:28,403
The Jewish part of her,
she just left behind.

612
00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:34,742
She was probably afraid
for many reasons.

613
00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:36,615
And I could feel it,

614
00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:40,073
I could see that
she was protecting herself.

615
00:32:41,710 --> 00:32:43,246
I became a manicurist.

616
00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,294
That's how I met Hedy.

617
00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:49,711
I told her that I survived
the war with camps

618
00:32:49,926 --> 00:32:52,259
and running for my life.

619
00:32:53,722 --> 00:32:56,590
We talked about
what was going on

620
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,596
and how I come to America.

621
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:05,023
I find myself
on an American ship.

622
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:09,398
I was shaking with fear
because we heard noises.

623
00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:14,274
We were attacked
by the Nazi submarines.

624
00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,445
I remember saying,
"Oh, dear God,

625
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:23,283
please don't kill me now,
let me see America."

626
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:28,204
At the time,
Hedy's mother was preparing

627
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:31,712
to make the treacherous
Atlantic crossing herself.

628
00:33:31,927 --> 00:33:35,386
She'd fled Austria
and gotten as far as London

629
00:33:35,597 --> 00:33:39,181
where she and Hedy
were able to write each other.

630
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:42,476
<i>"Mommy, my mind
is so preoccupied</i>

631
00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:45,395
<i>and I would love it
if you could come immediately</i>

632
00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,564
<i>since the times,
they are very uncertain.</i>

633
00:33:49,694 --> 00:33:51,777
<i>I have been listening
to the radio day and night</i>

634
00:33:51,988 --> 00:33:53,274
<i>for over a week,</i>

635
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:55,152
<i>and I've gotten
barely any sleep."</i>

636
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:56,483
<i>Vivid pictures
of a naval action</i>

637
00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:58,112
<i>have just been released.</i>

638
00:33:58,328 --> 00:34:01,366
One day,
in the summer of 1940,

639
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:04,324
a shipload of children
was torpedoed.

640
00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:08,412
All hands lost
including 83 children.

641
00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,374
At the time,
the German U-boats

642
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:17,257
were on the verge
of winning the war.

643
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,088
They seemed to be unsinkable

644
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,219
because they easily
outmaneuvered

645
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:25,178
the outdated British torpedoes.

646
00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:30,188
In times of crisis,
most of us feel powerless,

647
00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:32,485
but a few discover
in themselves

648
00:34:32,696 --> 00:34:35,154
unexpected strength.

649
00:34:35,365 --> 00:34:38,028
And Hedy being Hedy,
she said,

650
00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:41,202
"I'm gonna do something
about that."

651
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:43,951
So, in this article, Hedy says,

652
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,157
"I got the idea
for my invention

653
00:34:46,376 --> 00:34:48,709
when I tried to think
of some way

654
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,128
to even the balance
for the British.

655
00:34:51,339 --> 00:34:56,209
A radio-controlled torpedo
I thought would do it."

656
00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:59,387
A torpedo launched
on a given trajectory

657
00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:02,557
might need to be changed,
redirected.

658
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,259
You want, ideally,
your launching boat

659
00:35:05,478 --> 00:35:08,767
to communicate
with the torpedo.

660
00:35:08,982 --> 00:35:13,067
The problem is you can't control
radio communications.

661
00:35:13,278 --> 00:35:15,144
They're not secure.

662
00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,821
Your enemy, if they're smart,

663
00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:21,071
finds the frequency with which
you're talking to the torpedo

664
00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:22,117
and jams it.

665
00:35:25,373 --> 00:35:26,580
<i>Jamming.</i>

666
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:30,080
<i>The Germans fill the air
with radio interference.</i>

667
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,207
She came up with the idea
of a secret way

668
00:35:32,422 --> 00:35:34,163
of guiding that torpedo
to the target

669
00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:37,375
that couldn't be interrupted,
that couldn't be jammed,

670
00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:38,960
that couldn't be messed with.

671
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:40,169
It was secret.

672
00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:44,887
Instead of just one transmit
frequency communicating,

673
00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:47,764
she said, "What if we changed
those frequencies constantly

674
00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,891
in sync with each other?"

675
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,940
Frequency hopping.

676
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:54,858
You couldn't jam it
because you'd only jam

677
00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:58,154
a split second of it
in a single frequency.

678
00:35:58,365 --> 00:36:00,607
So, frequency change,
frequency hop,

679
00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:02,157
frequency hop, frequency hop.

680
00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:05,737
That concept,
secure radio communications,

681
00:36:05,955 --> 00:36:07,617
was brilliant.

682
00:36:09,459 --> 00:36:11,667
Now there are various versions
of how she came up

683
00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:15,872
with her profoundly
original idea.

684
00:36:16,091 --> 00:36:19,175
One theory is
that she stole it.

685
00:36:19,386 --> 00:36:22,379
The man who championed
that idea was an engineer

686
00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:25,840
who once interviewed her
named Robert Price.

687
00:36:26,059 --> 00:36:29,268
Robert Price was a pioneer
in secret communications,

688
00:36:29,479 --> 00:36:32,017
and he gave me his number
and I called him up.

689
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:34,181
<i>She's an inventor</i>

690
00:36:34,401 --> 00:36:38,941
<i>but I don't know in what sense
exactly she is an inventor.</i>

691
00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:39,861
<i>If I want to be harsh</i>

692
00:36:40,073 --> 00:36:43,532
<i>I would say she was
a plagiarizer, you understand?</i>

693
00:36:43,743 --> 00:36:44,779
Hedy's first husband

694
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:48,487
was Austria's leading
munitions manufacturer.

695
00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:51,620
Robert Price said to me
that he thought

696
00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:54,828
that she just smuggled the idea
out of her husband's board room.

697
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,835
In fact, he called her
the Mata Hari of World War Il,

698
00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:02,339
the most notorious spy
who seduced men

699
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:05,046
and got all kinds of secrets
out of them.

700
00:37:05,265 --> 00:37:08,258
The engineers at Mandl's firm
might just have known

701
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:10,308
about the frequency hopping.

702
00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:15,772
<i>Is that how you were aware
of frequency hopping?</i>

703
00:37:15,984 --> 00:37:18,442
<i>No. What, my husband?</i>

704
00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:23,193
<i>No. Nobody did that...
invent that before.</i>

705
00:37:23,408 --> 00:37:25,274
<i>I mean, I know what I did.</i>

706
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:27,860
<i>I don't care
what other people say about me.</i>

707
00:37:29,998 --> 00:37:31,705
The record is very clear

708
00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:36,752
that the Germans
had not come across the idea

709
00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,751
that would be
Hedy's signal contribution,

710
00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:43,084
what she called
"frequency hopping."

711
00:37:43,303 --> 00:37:46,216
I don't think she was a spy.

712
00:37:46,431 --> 00:37:49,390
<i>It was so obvious.
I mean they shot torpedoes</i>

713
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:52,218
<i>in all directions
and never hit the target,</i>

714
00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:55,805
<i>so I invented
something that does.</i>

715
00:37:56,024 --> 00:37:59,108
<i>I mean, I can't explain.
I have an inventive mind.</i>

716
00:38:02,405 --> 00:38:06,399
I think Hedy got her idea
from a curious coincidence

717
00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,531
that, in 1939,

718
00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:12,238
the Philco Radio Company
produced

719
00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:14,995
a new top-of-the-line
remote control.

720
00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:16,997
There's a new gadget
just out, see?

721
00:38:17,212 --> 00:38:20,705
You dial your station here
and you hear it over there.

722
00:38:20,924 --> 00:38:22,586
- Well, where are the wires?
- There ain't any wires.

723
00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:24,337
That's the trick.

724
00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:28,171
We know Hedy was interested
in the remote control

725
00:38:28,389 --> 00:38:31,382
and how it worked
because the device is sketched

726
00:38:31,601 --> 00:38:33,968
in the invention notebooks.

727
00:38:36,105 --> 00:38:40,065
In here is all the evidence
of my mother's invention.

728
00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:42,142
It's this.

729
00:38:42,362 --> 00:38:45,105
She dialed in a radio station
and she said,

730
00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:48,532
"If we hop around frequencies,
just like I'm hopping

731
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:52,953
around radio stations
on this dialer,

732
00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:56,874
when I transmit this information
to the torpedo,

733
00:38:57,085 --> 00:38:59,168
we can make it totally secret."

734
00:39:01,965 --> 00:39:04,298
So the Philco magic box
probably inspired

735
00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:06,091
the whole thing.

736
00:39:09,806 --> 00:39:12,765
The fact that she understands
this frequency component

737
00:39:12,976 --> 00:39:16,310
of the signal
and how that changes

738
00:39:16,521 --> 00:39:20,185
is, I mean, genius in a way.

739
00:39:22,110 --> 00:39:25,274
I mean, we know Thomas Edison
was not an engineer.

740
00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,571
You don't have to have
eight years

741
00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:29,774
of a graduate degree
in engineering

742
00:39:29,993 --> 00:39:33,031
in order to come up
with something new.

743
00:39:33,246 --> 00:39:35,613
In the inventing process,
there is a moment

744
00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:39,701
of high lucidity,
of clear thinking.

745
00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:43,458
In the case of Hedy,
she had this lucid moment

746
00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:46,507
without knowing how she was
going to put it together.

747
00:39:46,718 --> 00:39:49,836
She didn't have the training
to make it happen.

748
00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:51,920
And she said that,
"The idea was mine,

749
00:39:52,140 --> 00:39:55,224
but the implementation
was George's."

750
00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,224
My mother met George Antheil
at Janet Gaynor's party.

751
00:39:59,439 --> 00:40:02,477
And she liked
George Antheil a lot.

752
00:40:02,692 --> 00:40:04,479
So, when she left
the party early,

753
00:40:04,694 --> 00:40:06,310
she wrote her phone number
in lipstick

754
00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:09,567
on the windshield of his car.

755
00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:13,776
They discovered that they had
a great deal in common.

756
00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:16,282
At the time,
I think they both felt

757
00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:20,036
like they were not understood
for their true qualities.

758
00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:24,621
George Antheil was really quite
an unusual American composer,

759
00:40:24,839 --> 00:40:26,626
extremely avant-garde.

760
00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:29,879
Now musicians all over the world
love to play Antheil's music,

761
00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:32,586
they love to get
into that confrontational space

762
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:33,795
that was his.

763
00:40:34,015 --> 00:40:35,506
He had a gun,
then he would pull it out

764
00:40:35,725 --> 00:40:37,887
and he'd bang it
down on the piano

765
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:39,263
right at the beginning
of the show,

766
00:40:39,479 --> 00:40:40,845
and shout, "Lock the doors!"

767
00:40:41,064 --> 00:40:43,021
Sometimes it sounds
like his music is jazz

768
00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:44,188
put into a Cuisinart.

769
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,313
It's just, you know,
chopped up and there it is.

770
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:53,357
Well, George Antheil
wrote a book

771
00:40:53,576 --> 00:40:58,116
called <i>Bad Boy of Music,</i>
and in chapter 32,

772
00:40:58,331 --> 00:41:02,200
"Hedy Lamarr and I invent
a radio torpedo."

773
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:05,206
He says,
"We began talking about the war,

774
00:41:05,421 --> 00:41:07,162
which in the late summer
of 1940,

775
00:41:07,382 --> 00:41:10,090
was looking
most extremely black."

776
00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:11,963
Hedy said that she did not feel
comfortable

777
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:14,295
sitting there in Hollywood
and making lots of money

778
00:41:14,514 --> 00:41:16,255
when things were
in such a state,

779
00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:18,932
and that she was thinking
seriously of quitting MGM

780
00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:21,601
and going to Washington D.C.
to offer her services

781
00:41:21,813 --> 00:41:24,476
to the newly established
Inventors Council.

782
00:41:26,401 --> 00:41:28,609
She was very patriotic,
she loved America.

783
00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:32,655
She was grateful to be here,
and she wanted Hitler dead.

784
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,777
So did George Antheil.

785
00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:36,859
George had a kid brother
12 years younger

786
00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:40,071
whose name was Henry.

787
00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:44,533
1941, he boarded a plane,
and moments later,

788
00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,586
the plane was shot down
by two Soviet fighters.

789
00:41:47,797 --> 00:41:51,461
This is the first American
killed in World War Il.

790
00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:56,466
George, he was just devastated.

791
00:41:58,433 --> 00:42:02,347
He wanted revenge
for his brother's assassination

792
00:42:02,562 --> 00:42:05,555
and opportunity
with someone who knew

793
00:42:05,773 --> 00:42:07,639
what she was talking about.

794
00:42:09,402 --> 00:42:13,066
Hedy and George worked
on three inventions together,

795
00:42:13,281 --> 00:42:17,400
all weapons meant to help
the Allies fight Germany.

796
00:42:17,618 --> 00:42:19,905
I have letters
from George Antheil.

797
00:42:20,121 --> 00:42:21,828
In one of the letters, he wrote,

798
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,124
"All she wants to do
is stay home and invent things.

799
00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,873
She is an incredible combination
of childish ignorance

800
00:42:29,088 --> 00:42:32,047
and definite flashes of genius."

801
00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:36,085
"She calls
in the middle of the night

802
00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:37,795
because an idea hit her."

803
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:41,928
So, my mother was a pest.

804
00:42:42,143 --> 00:42:44,635
She had to invent,
she had to invent,

805
00:42:44,854 --> 00:42:47,938
and she pulled George Antheil
in with her.

806
00:42:48,149 --> 00:42:50,482
The most successful
of their inventions

807
00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:53,276
was a secret
communication system

808
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:56,276
based on Hedy's idea
of frequency hopping.

809
00:42:56,491 --> 00:42:57,777
George is taking
all these notes,

810
00:42:57,992 --> 00:43:00,109
and I think there was
some sort of a-ha moment

811
00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:02,615
where he said,
"You know, I have this system,"

812
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:06,119
I guess he got from dealing
with player pianos,

813
00:43:06,334 --> 00:43:08,701
"that we might be able to adapt

814
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,630
and make... make
your concept work."

815
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,627
George Antheil got thrown
out of Trenton High School

816
00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:16,174
when he was 17,

817
00:43:16,385 --> 00:43:19,503
so he had no special training
in engineering.

818
00:43:19,722 --> 00:43:23,215
What he did know was how
to synchronize player pianos.

819
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:28,562
George's
most famous composition

820
00:43:28,773 --> 00:43:32,232
was for a film called
<i>Ballet Mécanique.</i>

821
00:43:32,443 --> 00:43:37,188
He scored it
for 16 player pianos.

822
00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:39,147
George's big realization was,

823
00:43:39,367 --> 00:43:41,734
if piano rolls
can activate piano keys,

824
00:43:41,953 --> 00:43:44,445
why couldn't they activate
radio frequencies

825
00:43:44,664 --> 00:43:46,951
in both torpedo and the ship?

826
00:43:48,334 --> 00:43:50,701
The basic idea
is that by using

827
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,004
two miniature piano rolls

828
00:43:54,215 --> 00:43:56,298
that would start
at the same moment

829
00:43:56,509 --> 00:43:59,172
and turn at the same speed,

830
00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:03,131
a ship and a torpedo
could secretly communicate

831
00:44:03,349 --> 00:44:06,137
on the same pattern
of frequencies.

832
00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:09,641
Ultimately, Hedy and George
wanted their torpedo and ship

833
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:12,724
to communicate
on 88 different frequencies,

834
00:44:12,942 --> 00:44:14,399
like an encryption system,
basically,

835
00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:16,192
that nobody could crack.

836
00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,479
Wonderfully clever idea.

837
00:44:19,699 --> 00:44:21,656
And the Inventors Council
agreed.

838
00:44:21,868 --> 00:44:23,700
<i>The members of the National
Inventors Council...</i>

839
00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:28,246
And it was a council
of actual engineers

840
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:30,164
with a major inventor
in his own right,

841
00:44:30,376 --> 00:44:31,617
Charles Kettering,

842
00:44:31,836 --> 00:44:34,704
who was struck by the value
and the originality

843
00:44:34,922 --> 00:44:37,084
of Hedy and George's idea.

844
00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:39,212
So they helped George and Hedy

845
00:44:39,427 --> 00:44:42,795
by connecting them up
with a physicist at Caltech

846
00:44:43,014 --> 00:44:46,132
in California who was
an expert on electronics.

847
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:47,841
And he presumably designed

848
00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,894
the electronics part
of this device.

849
00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:54,815
The day came
when this invention

850
00:44:55,026 --> 00:44:56,358
was issued a full patent.

851
00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:04,073
Hedy and George
donated their invention

852
00:45:04,285 --> 00:45:06,823
to the National Inventors
Council,

853
00:45:07,038 --> 00:45:08,870
but it was generally understood

854
00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:11,448
that if the military
used an invention,

855
00:45:11,667 --> 00:45:13,579
the inventors would be paid.

856
00:45:15,838 --> 00:45:18,000
They gave it to the Navy,

857
00:45:18,216 --> 00:45:22,005
and as George Antheil
liked to tell the story later,

858
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,007
I went in to see the Navy Brass

859
00:45:24,222 --> 00:45:27,010
and they threw the patent
on the desk and said,

860
00:45:27,225 --> 00:45:28,261
"What do you want to do,

861
00:45:28,476 --> 00:45:31,014
put a player piano in a torpedo?

862
00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:32,720
Get out of here!"

863
00:45:33,981 --> 00:45:35,142
And that was that.

864
00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,520
Sons of bitches.

865
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:38,646
Shame.

866
00:45:38,861 --> 00:45:39,942
Shame on them.

867
00:45:40,154 --> 00:45:42,362
Well, that's why
I was in the Army,

868
00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:44,986
because the Navy
was never that bright.

869
00:45:55,753 --> 00:45:58,245
After the Navy
rejected their invention,

870
00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:01,423
Hedy wanted to continue
developing it.

871
00:46:01,634 --> 00:46:04,251
But George,
who always had bills to pay,

872
00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:07,258
wasn't interested.

873
00:46:07,473 --> 00:46:09,465
I think George was very proud
that he had done it,

874
00:46:09,684 --> 00:46:12,176
but I think he just got over it.

875
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:13,681
I think that for Hedy,

876
00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:17,139
she saw it as perhaps
her ticket to be recognized

877
00:46:17,358 --> 00:46:20,226
for the brilliant woman
that she was.

878
00:46:25,533 --> 00:46:29,072
And the patent, like all things
submitted to the military,

879
00:46:29,287 --> 00:46:32,200
was put in a safe somewhere
and labeled Top Secret.

880
00:46:32,415 --> 00:46:34,327
So it disappeared from the world

881
00:46:34,542 --> 00:46:36,283
for the rest of the war.

882
00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:43,966
The Navy basically told her,

883
00:46:44,176 --> 00:46:48,136
"You know, you'd be helping
the war a lot more, little lady,

884
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:50,805
if you got out
and sold war bonds

885
00:46:51,017 --> 00:46:52,349
rather than sat around

886
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,394
trying to invent
new kinds of torpedoes.

887
00:46:55,604 --> 00:46:57,220
Leave that to the experts.

888
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,683
Get out there
and raise money."

889
00:47:00,901 --> 00:47:04,986
You don't get to be
Hedy Lamarr and smart.

890
00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:06,062
No.

891
00:47:07,575 --> 00:47:08,361
No.

892
00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:15,121
<i>I worked for the government
at the bond tour.</i>

893
00:47:15,333 --> 00:47:17,074
<i>Really? How?</i>

894
00:47:17,293 --> 00:47:20,206
<i>By appearing,
by dancing with these people.</i>

895
00:47:22,423 --> 00:47:24,710
Hedy used to go
to the Hollywood Canteen

896
00:47:24,925 --> 00:47:27,167
and entertain the troops.

897
00:47:27,386 --> 00:47:29,469
<i>Hedy Lamarr
hands out autographs.</i>

898
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,673
She was not yet
an American citizen

899
00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:37,728
and she was there working
on behalf of the United States

900
00:47:37,938 --> 00:47:39,895
and its soldiers every night

901
00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:41,564
as often as she could be.

902
00:47:41,776 --> 00:47:44,109
It's a great thing, really.

903
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,985
Hedy sold something like
$25 million worth of war bonds,

904
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,238
which if you translate that
into modern dollars,

905
00:47:52,453 --> 00:47:57,994
comes out around $343 million
worth of war bonds.

906
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,253
To be told to just raise money
for the war,

907
00:48:03,464 --> 00:48:04,580
it's unfortunate.

908
00:48:04,799 --> 00:48:07,132
That was the way that people
thought that she would do good

909
00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:10,882
in the best way within
her realm of capabilities.

910
00:48:11,097 --> 00:48:13,054
F-35, somebody have it?

911
00:48:13,265 --> 00:48:14,005
I've got it!

912
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:15,215
Go ahead!

913
00:48:15,434 --> 00:48:16,845
Oh no.

914
00:48:17,061 --> 00:48:21,146
Like, go and sell a kiss
to a strange man.

915
00:48:21,357 --> 00:48:24,316
Maybe... maybe she would have felt
a little bit better

916
00:48:24,527 --> 00:48:27,565
about her accomplishments
if she received recognition

917
00:48:27,780 --> 00:48:29,772
for her intellect.

918
00:48:29,990 --> 00:48:31,231
Oh, you'll get used to it.

919
00:48:31,450 --> 00:48:33,112
I don't want to get used to it.

920
00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:34,192
I have my own life.

921
00:48:34,412 --> 00:48:36,244
My own life!

922
00:48:36,455 --> 00:48:38,071
To add insult to injury,

923
00:48:38,290 --> 00:48:42,751
the U.S. Government seized
Hedy's patent in 1942

924
00:48:42,962 --> 00:48:45,079
as the property
of an enemy alien.

925
00:48:47,216 --> 00:48:48,878
<i>I don't understand.</i>

926
00:48:49,093 --> 00:48:51,585
<i>They use me for selling bonds,</i>

927
00:48:51,804 --> 00:48:52,965
<i>then I'm not an alien.</i>

928
00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,092
<i>And when I invent something
for this country</i>

929
00:48:55,307 --> 00:48:57,299
<i>I am an alien?</i>

930
00:49:04,733 --> 00:49:07,897
I am Tandelayo.

931
00:49:08,112 --> 00:49:11,230
After she did the invention,

932
00:49:11,449 --> 00:49:14,066
what did Louis B. Mayer
offer Hedy Lamarr?

933
00:49:16,287 --> 00:49:17,573
<i>White Cargo.</i>

934
00:49:23,002 --> 00:49:25,289
We were at war by then
and Louis B. Mayer

935
00:49:25,504 --> 00:49:27,416
wanted to entertain
the servicemen

936
00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:28,747
who would pay money

937
00:49:28,966 --> 00:49:31,424
to see what was considered
a dirty picture.

938
00:49:35,181 --> 00:49:37,093
Louis B. Mayer
divided the world

939
00:49:37,308 --> 00:49:39,550
into two kinds of women,

940
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,555
Madonna and whore.

941
00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:45,180
I don't think he ever believed

942
00:49:45,399 --> 00:49:48,142
she was anything but the latter

943
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,023
because of <i>Ecstasy.</i>

944
00:49:51,238 --> 00:49:52,570
You better go now.

945
00:49:56,327 --> 00:49:59,195
Audiences ate it up.

946
00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:04,875
This was a woman who had tried
to change the course of the war.

947
00:50:05,085 --> 00:50:08,123
Now she found herself
in a third rate film

948
00:50:08,339 --> 00:50:11,252
as a distraction
for the troops.

949
00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:17,261
<i>They think I'm a bad actress.</i>

950
00:50:17,473 --> 00:50:21,092
<i>I think sometimes in life
I act more than on the screen.</i>

951
00:50:24,146 --> 00:50:27,389
Hedy really struggled
to make her mark in Hollywood.

952
00:50:27,608 --> 00:50:29,565
She knew she wasn't respected

953
00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:32,269
like a Garbo or a Dietrich.

954
00:50:32,488 --> 00:50:37,700
She wanted to have roles that
allowed her to do something more

955
00:50:37,910 --> 00:50:39,822
and to give her
an acting challenge.

956
00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:45,874
So that brought her in some
conflict with Louis B. Mayer.

957
00:50:46,085 --> 00:50:47,826
He sued her a couple times.

958
00:50:48,045 --> 00:50:50,128
I mean, he tried to keep her
on a very tight leash.

959
00:50:50,339 --> 00:50:52,626
She wouldn't let herself
be kept on a tight leash

960
00:50:52,841 --> 00:50:54,207
and there were always problems.

961
00:50:54,426 --> 00:50:57,794
And she got the reputation
of being difficult.

962
00:51:04,979 --> 00:51:07,892
<i>I believe that we are
controlled by ourselves,</i>

963
00:51:08,107 --> 00:51:09,063
<i>by our way of thinking,</i>

964
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:11,392
<i>by our way
of dealing with people.</i>

965
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:12,896
<i>I mean, there comes a point</i>

966
00:51:13,112 --> 00:51:14,193
<i>when you can't take anymore...</i>

967
00:51:14,405 --> 00:51:16,692
<i>then you have to
make yourself heard.</i>

968
00:51:18,033 --> 00:51:21,071
She needed to be free.

969
00:51:21,287 --> 00:51:25,156
I think she was brave
and courageous.

970
00:51:25,374 --> 00:51:27,286
She felt like,
"I'm gonna do it for myself.

971
00:51:27,501 --> 00:51:29,208
I'm gonna live the way...

972
00:51:29,420 --> 00:51:30,752
I bloody wanna live
my own life."

973
00:51:32,131 --> 00:51:33,212
So she said,
"Well, you know what?

974
00:51:33,424 --> 00:51:34,460
I'll make my own movie.

975
00:51:34,675 --> 00:51:36,632
I'll produce my own movie."

976
00:51:39,471 --> 00:51:41,963
I don't really recall
anybody except Hedy

977
00:51:42,182 --> 00:51:45,175
went out and actually
produced a movie.

978
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:49,183
It was very unusual in 1946.

979
00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,014
The system didn't welcome it,

980
00:51:51,233 --> 00:51:53,896
they didn't want movie stars
going out of control

981
00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:55,397
and producing their own films.

982
00:51:55,613 --> 00:51:57,479
What a terrible idea.

983
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:00,816
Especially the women.

984
00:52:01,035 --> 00:52:04,153
She was so ahead of her time
with being a feminist.

985
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:09,791
She's never been called that,
but she certainly was.

986
00:52:10,002 --> 00:52:11,743
Don't worry about me.

987
00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:13,669
I can handle trouble.

988
00:52:13,881 --> 00:52:15,964
I know you can.

989
00:52:16,175 --> 00:52:19,714
And then she co-produced
<i>Dishonored Lady,</i>

990
00:52:19,928 --> 00:52:23,217
and I think that both films
were produced very well.

991
00:52:27,603 --> 00:52:30,311
She made <i>Dishonored Lady</i>
with my father.

992
00:52:30,522 --> 00:52:32,889
It's the only movie
they were in together.

993
00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:35,145
I've always wondered
if it were possible for people

994
00:52:35,361 --> 00:52:37,068
like you and me.

995
00:52:37,279 --> 00:52:40,693
This was a time
when America was recovering

996
00:52:40,908 --> 00:52:43,025
from World War Il.

997
00:52:43,243 --> 00:52:44,825
And like the rest
of the country,

998
00:52:45,037 --> 00:52:47,950
she too wanted a family
and a home life.

999
00:52:50,501 --> 00:52:52,083
<i>I was married
and married because</i>

1000
00:52:52,294 --> 00:52:56,538
<i>I liked the companionship
of a man, obviously.</i>

1001
00:52:56,757 --> 00:52:59,875
I think, you know, he was quite
a bit older and British.

1002
00:53:00,094 --> 00:53:02,302
I don't think he was
the love of her life.

1003
00:53:02,513 --> 00:53:05,176
I think she had said
he was stuffy and boring.

1004
00:53:05,391 --> 00:53:08,259
You know, you're not
at all what I imagined.

1005
00:53:08,477 --> 00:53:09,513
No?

1006
00:53:09,728 --> 00:53:11,139
No.

1007
00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,223
So this is a letter
from George Antheil.

1008
00:53:14,441 --> 00:53:16,023
"The last time I saw Hedy,

1009
00:53:16,235 --> 00:53:17,351
she looked paler.

1010
00:53:17,569 --> 00:53:19,276
Something's troubling her.

1011
00:53:19,488 --> 00:53:22,356
John Loder is really
and honestly too dull

1012
00:53:22,574 --> 00:53:26,284
for this sparkling
and unbelievable diamond."

1013
00:53:26,495 --> 00:53:29,203
And I think he hit the nail
on the head with that one.

1014
00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,246
She was independent,
she was the breadwinner.

1015
00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:35,543
She wasn't stuck
in a marriage.

1016
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:37,120
Will you please go?

1017
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:39,205
Of course I'll go.

1018
00:53:39,425 --> 00:53:42,384
I think he left, I was a toddler
and Tony was a baby,

1019
00:53:42,594 --> 00:53:44,381
and I never heard from him.

1020
00:53:47,474 --> 00:53:50,842
She was a single mother
in the '40s,

1021
00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:53,098
so she was basically alone.

1022
00:53:55,524 --> 00:53:56,731
When we were little,

1023
00:53:56,942 --> 00:54:01,653
she was the most charming,
lovely person I can imagine.

1024
00:54:01,864 --> 00:54:03,696
And so nice
and warm and loving,

1025
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:06,775
and she opened my hands
that were held in a ball,

1026
00:54:06,994 --> 00:54:08,735
"Relax, don't go
to sleep angry."

1027
00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:11,071
She was just
such a great mother.

1028
00:54:11,290 --> 00:54:14,203
<i>I taught my children swimming.</i>

1029
00:54:14,418 --> 00:54:18,128
<i>The little children have
little armbands to swim.</i>

1030
00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:19,670
<i>- Have you ever seen that?
- Yes.</i>

1031
00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:21,794
<i>Makes absolutely no sense.</i>

1032
00:54:22,009 --> 00:54:24,217
<i>because the middle,
the center</i>

1033
00:54:24,428 --> 00:54:26,795
<i>is where they should be lifted.</i>

1034
00:54:27,014 --> 00:54:28,004
<i>Mm-hm.</i>

1035
00:54:28,223 --> 00:54:29,589
<i>That's how I taught
my children</i>

1036
00:54:29,808 --> 00:54:31,720
<i>and they swim like fish.</i>

1037
00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:36,221
<i>They really were good as gold.</i>

1038
00:54:37,357 --> 00:54:40,225
<i>I did a good job with them.</i>

1039
00:54:40,444 --> 00:54:42,436
<i>It made me a little tired
but that's...</i>

1040
00:54:42,654 --> 00:54:44,236
<i>that's part of it, the job,
I guess.</i>

1041
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:47,774
My mother worked her ass off.

1042
00:54:47,993 --> 00:54:49,109
She had to earn a living.

1043
00:54:49,328 --> 00:54:50,284
She was on her own.

1044
00:54:50,496 --> 00:54:52,237
It was such pressure.

1045
00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:55,874
At least she didn't have
to worry about granny.

1046
00:54:56,084 --> 00:54:58,121
By then she'd made it
safely to California

1047
00:54:58,337 --> 00:55:00,329
and Mom paid for her
to live nearby.

1048
00:55:00,547 --> 00:55:03,585
Financially, Hedy wasn't
in the best of shape.

1049
00:55:03,801 --> 00:55:05,212
She had two independent films,

1050
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:07,259
she made a lousy comedy,

1051
00:55:07,471 --> 00:55:10,885
and she knew she was going
in the gutter career-wise.

1052
00:55:11,099 --> 00:55:13,967
She needed a breath
of fresh air.

1053
00:55:14,186 --> 00:55:15,768
And just by a stroke of luck,

1054
00:55:15,979 --> 00:55:17,641
her agent at the time mentioned,

1055
00:55:17,856 --> 00:55:21,020
"Well, I was talking
to C.B. the other day,"

1056
00:55:21,235 --> 00:55:22,396
Cecil B. DeMille,

1057
00:55:22,611 --> 00:55:24,352
great motion picture producer.

1058
00:55:24,571 --> 00:55:27,484
He was just beginning
his biblical epics

1059
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:30,112
of sex and sand.

1060
00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:32,239
And Hedy called Cecil B. DeMille
and said,

1061
00:55:32,454 --> 00:55:35,572
"I understand you're casting
for a new motion picture.

1062
00:55:35,791 --> 00:55:37,123
I am Delilah."

1063
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:41,119
No man leaves Delilah.

1064
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:47,250
Look at her, Samson.

1065
00:55:47,469 --> 00:55:49,085
Look well.

1066
00:55:49,304 --> 00:55:53,344
Satan himself taught her
all the arts of deception.

1067
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:55,471
Howard Hawks had a great line
about DeMille.

1068
00:55:55,686 --> 00:55:57,177
He says, "You know,

1069
00:55:57,396 --> 00:55:59,763
DeMille is so bad
he's almost good."

1070
00:56:03,193 --> 00:56:05,981
But anyway, <i>Samson and Delilah</i>
was a huge hit.

1071
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:08,028
I think it was
her biggest success.

1072
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:10,698
It thoroughly
revived Hedy's name

1073
00:56:10,909 --> 00:56:14,118
into the public consciousness.

1074
00:56:14,329 --> 00:56:17,117
<i>Samson and Delilah</i> was
the second highest grossing film

1075
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:18,789
of the decade.

1076
00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:22,870
Only <i>Gone with the Wind</i>
surpassed it.

1077
00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:24,579
Hedy took notice.

1078
00:56:24,798 --> 00:56:26,790
She decided to produce
her own epic

1079
00:56:27,009 --> 00:56:29,251
in the style of DeMille.

1080
00:56:29,469 --> 00:56:32,257
She would film it in Italy
and title it

1081
00:56:32,472 --> 00:56:34,555
<i>The Loves of Three Queens.</i>

1082
00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:42,100
Hedy played
all three lead roles.

1083
00:56:42,316 --> 00:56:43,932
The subject was beauty

1084
00:56:44,151 --> 00:56:45,858
and how it got
in the way of love

1085
00:56:46,069 --> 00:56:47,810
for the great women of history.

1086
00:56:48,030 --> 00:56:50,317
They're leading you into a trap.

1087
00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:53,070
Oh, Napoleon, you're blind.

1088
00:56:53,285 --> 00:56:55,151
There is no choice.

1089
00:56:55,370 --> 00:56:57,032
It was a huge production.

1090
00:56:57,247 --> 00:56:58,203
She didn't have the training

1091
00:56:58,415 --> 00:57:01,203
to take on a project
of this size.

1092
00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:03,125
And when she was finished
with it,

1093
00:57:03,337 --> 00:57:07,297
she couldn't find distribution
in the United States.

1094
00:57:07,507 --> 00:57:09,669
She spent millions
of dollars on it,

1095
00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:11,968
no one would touch it.

1096
00:57:12,179 --> 00:57:13,465
She lost all her money.

1097
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,171
She found herself with nothing.

1098
00:57:16,558 --> 00:57:20,142
<i>I'm a good artist
and a very bad business person.</i>

1099
00:57:22,481 --> 00:57:23,722
She's no longer a star

1100
00:57:23,941 --> 00:57:26,228
and she doesn't really have
any money.

1101
00:57:28,236 --> 00:57:30,819
She was in Houston for an event

1102
00:57:31,031 --> 00:57:34,320
and she ran into Howard Lee
the oil man.

1103
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:40,280
And then I found out
my name was now Tony Lee.

1104
00:57:40,499 --> 00:57:42,240
And we were living in Texas.

1105
00:57:53,428 --> 00:57:57,138
Mom actually had a Texas twang
with a Viennese accent.

1106
00:57:57,349 --> 00:57:59,682
It was hilarious.

1107
00:57:59,893 --> 00:58:02,135
He was a nice guy.

1108
00:58:02,354 --> 00:58:06,223
I really kind of felt Texan
for a while.

1109
00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:11,687
In Texas, Hedy found herself
a trophy wife again.

1110
00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:14,397
You know, Texas was retirement.

1111
00:58:14,616 --> 00:58:17,700
But a creative person
needs something to do.

1112
00:58:17,911 --> 00:58:19,948
She didn't have much to do.

1113
00:58:23,792 --> 00:58:26,910
We went on vacation
in Aspen, Colorado.

1114
00:58:27,129 --> 00:58:29,212
<i>I used to ski
when I was a young girl.</i>

1115
00:58:29,423 --> 00:58:32,166
<i>I skied to school,
I skied all over the place.</i>

1116
00:58:34,136 --> 00:58:35,547
<i>And I went through Aspen.</i>

1117
00:58:35,762 --> 00:58:37,719
<i>There was nobody there.
Nothing.</i>

1118
00:58:37,931 --> 00:58:40,093
<i>Just a little store
and a few houses.</i>

1119
00:58:40,308 --> 00:58:44,518
<i>And they said, "This could be a
very wonderful skiing resort."</i>

1120
00:58:44,730 --> 00:58:47,894
<i>So I started to build
a place called Villa Lamarr.</i>

1121
00:58:48,108 --> 00:58:50,225
She wanted to build
a ski resort,

1122
00:58:50,444 --> 00:58:53,107
so she convinced Howard
to buy some land.

1123
00:58:54,489 --> 00:58:56,856
It was all Austrian,
it's beautiful.

1124
00:58:57,075 --> 00:58:59,158
She spent years
making that place.

1125
00:59:00,245 --> 00:59:03,158
She created some
of her homeland.

1126
00:59:03,373 --> 00:59:05,615
That's why it meant
a lot to her.

1127
00:59:05,834 --> 00:59:09,453
She was really,
I think, homesick.

1128
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:13,497
It was after that

1129
00:59:13,717 --> 00:59:17,085
that everything
started falling apart.

1130
00:59:17,304 --> 00:59:19,341
Their relationship wasn't good.

1131
00:59:19,556 --> 00:59:23,266
It was pretty traumatic;
he was an alcoholic.

1132
00:59:23,477 --> 00:59:25,514
<i>With children it was very
difficult so I walked away.</i>

1133
00:59:25,729 --> 00:59:28,972
<i>I said, "All I want is Aspen,"
which I built myself.</i>

1134
00:59:29,191 --> 00:59:30,682
<i>My chalet there which makes</i>

1135
00:59:30,901 --> 00:59:32,938
<i>a million a day,
I suppose, now.</i>

1136
00:59:35,447 --> 00:59:36,608
Hedy told me again and again

1137
00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:39,782
about her divorce
with Howard Lee.

1138
00:59:39,993 --> 00:59:42,326
May be the darkest time
in her life.

1139
00:59:43,955 --> 00:59:44,866
<i>And then my daughter said,</i>

1140
00:59:45,082 --> 00:59:47,699
<i>"Ma, something happened
to Tony."</i>

1141
00:59:47,918 --> 00:59:51,082
<i>My son was almost killed
in a car accident.</i>

1142
00:59:53,465 --> 00:59:56,128
While her son was
in the hospital near death,

1143
00:59:56,343 --> 00:59:59,427
Hedy was called to testify
in divorce court.

1144
00:59:59,638 --> 01:00:03,097
Stressed and traumatized
to the point of breakdown,

1145
01:00:03,308 --> 01:00:05,550
she sent
her Hollywood body double

1146
01:00:05,769 --> 01:00:08,227
to testify in her place.

1147
01:00:08,438 --> 01:00:10,976
She infuriated the judge,

1148
01:00:11,191 --> 01:00:13,274
who punished her
by cutting her share

1149
01:00:13,485 --> 01:00:15,898
of the divorce settlement.

1150
01:00:16,113 --> 01:00:17,945
<i>He took everything away.</i>

1151
01:00:18,156 --> 01:00:20,489
<i>Aspen, which was beautiful.</i>

1152
01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:23,283
<i>I mean, it was a big shock.</i>

1153
01:00:23,495 --> 01:00:25,782
<i>So with the pressure here
and pressure all over</i>

1154
01:00:25,997 --> 01:00:28,330
<i>that's all I needed.
So I collapsed.</i>

1155
01:00:28,542 --> 01:00:31,159
<i>I had a nervous breakdown.</i>

1156
01:00:31,378 --> 01:00:33,961
<i>I feel like I was dead for...</i>

1157
01:00:34,172 --> 01:00:36,710
<i>I don't know how long,
but I was dead.</i>

1158
01:00:36,925 --> 01:00:41,135
<i>And so much so that this light
you see really exists</i>

1159
01:00:41,346 --> 01:00:44,054
<i>on the ceiling.</i>

1160
01:00:44,266 --> 01:00:45,177
<i>I saw my father.</i>

1161
01:00:48,979 --> 01:00:51,141
She said Emil, her father,

1162
01:00:51,356 --> 01:00:52,346
was her greatest love,

1163
01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:54,649
or no one could compare to him.

1164
01:00:54,860 --> 01:00:59,730
Well, he knew her
before she was this celebrity.

1165
01:00:59,948 --> 01:01:02,486
And so she felt
real love there.

1166
01:01:02,701 --> 01:01:05,034
And I don't know
if she felt that again.

1167
01:01:07,372 --> 01:01:09,614
Hedy had two more husbands
in her life.

1168
01:01:09,833 --> 01:01:12,667
Neither marriage lasted
much more than a year.

1169
01:01:14,504 --> 01:01:17,997
I wish my mother had a husband

1170
01:01:18,216 --> 01:01:19,707
who knew how to love her.

1171
01:01:19,926 --> 01:01:21,007
But she never did.

1172
01:01:24,431 --> 01:01:27,094
When I ended up living
with her after Texas,

1173
01:01:27,309 --> 01:01:31,144
it was very, very tricky,
very hard.

1174
01:01:33,273 --> 01:01:36,016
I think the drugs
were very responsible.

1175
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:39,147
The slightest thing could...
could set her off.

1176
01:01:39,362 --> 01:01:40,944
There was erratic behavior.

1177
01:01:41,156 --> 01:01:44,900
She was becoming more unstable.

1178
01:01:45,118 --> 01:01:48,361
I guess it pretty much
started with Jimmy.

1179
01:01:51,249 --> 01:01:54,037
As an adult,
I was looking at baby pictures

1180
01:01:54,252 --> 01:01:56,084
and it was my first birthday
with my mom...

1181
01:01:56,296 --> 01:01:58,333
and mother and father behind me.

1182
01:01:58,548 --> 01:02:01,416
And in between them, a boy.

1183
01:02:01,635 --> 01:02:03,342
Um, I told Mom,

1184
01:02:03,553 --> 01:02:05,294
"Who's this boy?"

1185
01:02:05,513 --> 01:02:06,924
And she literally said,

1186
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:10,224
"Oh, it was an adoption
that didn't work out."

1187
01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:13,143
She told me that
he was really rebellious

1188
01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,223
and was acting out big time.

1189
01:02:16,441 --> 01:02:20,025
And Jimmy was put
in a military boarding school.

1190
01:02:20,237 --> 01:02:22,320
So the sports coach

1191
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:24,772
kind of took Jimmy
under his wing,

1192
01:02:24,991 --> 01:02:26,482
coach and the wife,

1193
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:31,287
and he asked Hedy
if he could live with them.

1194
01:02:31,498 --> 01:02:34,912
And Mom was apparently so hurt
she said yes.

1195
01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:39,078
And I can't believe
that I have no memory of him.

1196
01:02:41,341 --> 01:02:44,175
She's my mother and I love her.

1197
01:02:44,386 --> 01:02:47,845
I called her sometimes
and she called me sometimes.

1198
01:02:49,474 --> 01:02:51,136
I never really blamed her
for anything,

1199
01:02:51,351 --> 01:02:53,058
I... I just...

1200
01:02:53,270 --> 01:02:56,104
I knew she was upset
because I, you know,

1201
01:02:56,314 --> 01:02:58,772
kind of like slapped her
in the face.

1202
01:02:58,984 --> 01:03:01,943
Like saying,
"I don't love you anymore."

1203
01:03:02,153 --> 01:03:06,147
But still I never saw her
after that for 40-some years.

1204
01:03:08,576 --> 01:03:10,738
She was a woman of extremes.

1205
01:03:12,163 --> 01:03:14,871
I mean, Hedy can just
leave things behind.

1206
01:03:15,083 --> 01:03:18,121
She cut off Jimmy,
she cut off being Jewish.

1207
01:03:18,336 --> 01:03:22,046
She was broken, she was
missing pieces of herself.

1208
01:03:25,218 --> 01:03:27,255
A lot of stars
from the studio system

1209
01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:33,558
did carry over this addiction
to pep pills, speed.

1210
01:03:33,768 --> 01:03:35,930
It does explain, in hindsight,

1211
01:03:36,146 --> 01:03:38,138
a lot of her behavior.

1212
01:03:43,278 --> 01:03:45,565
There are always
a great many rumors

1213
01:03:45,780 --> 01:03:50,275
about her connection
to the famous Dr. Feelgood.

1214
01:03:52,370 --> 01:03:56,660
Dr. Feelgood was Max Jacobson.

1215
01:03:56,875 --> 01:03:58,366
Look at
the Aretha Franklin song,

1216
01:03:58,585 --> 01:04:01,123
"Oh, Dr. Feelgood,
please make me feel good."

1217
01:04:01,338 --> 01:04:03,125
Everybody called him
Dr. Feelgood

1218
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:06,208
because he made them
feel good.

1219
01:04:06,426 --> 01:04:08,213
When Cecil B. DeMille
had his heart attack

1220
01:04:08,428 --> 01:04:10,260
on the set
of <i>The Ten Commandments,</i>

1221
01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:11,963
he flew Dr. Max over.

1222
01:04:12,182 --> 01:04:13,047
And then DeMille said,

1223
01:04:13,266 --> 01:04:14,131
"Go inject Charlton Heston.

1224
01:04:14,351 --> 01:04:15,307
There's not enough energy.

1225
01:04:15,518 --> 01:04:18,306
His Moses is too lackadaisical."

1226
01:04:19,939 --> 01:04:22,727
Hedy Lamarr
became a patient of his

1227
01:04:22,942 --> 01:04:25,400
from the 1950s
until Max Jacobson

1228
01:04:25,612 --> 01:04:30,073
lost his medical license
in 1974.

1229
01:04:30,283 --> 01:04:33,526
<i>Somebody did me in
like many times</i>

1230
01:04:33,745 --> 01:04:36,488
<i>and gave me a shot.
I don't know what it was.</i>

1231
01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:39,414
<i>I thought it was vitamins
but it wasn't.</i>

1232
01:04:39,626 --> 01:04:41,288
Said, "Oh, you should try
these vitamin B shots.

1233
01:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,165
They give you so much energy."

1234
01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:46,163
What Max Jacobson said

1235
01:04:46,383 --> 01:04:49,751
is they were
special vitamin elixirs.

1236
01:04:49,969 --> 01:04:51,551
And he loaded up a vial

1237
01:04:51,763 --> 01:04:54,631
with 40 milligrams
of methamphetamine.

1238
01:04:54,849 --> 01:04:56,636
Meth was legal.

1239
01:04:56,851 --> 01:04:58,638
And he gave Hedy a shot.

1240
01:05:01,398 --> 01:05:02,639
And the thing
about methamphetamine

1241
01:05:02,857 --> 01:05:04,314
is once you get
a couple of shots,

1242
01:05:04,526 --> 01:05:06,688
you're hooked
because the brain will demand

1243
01:05:06,903 --> 01:05:08,895
more and more of that reward.

1244
01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:15,026
So she got hooked
on these "vitamins."

1245
01:05:15,245 --> 01:05:21,082
And they turned her
into a monster.

1246
01:05:21,292 --> 01:05:23,158
I was standing in the kitchen

1247
01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:25,210
and she was holding a fork
and she dropped it.

1248
01:05:25,422 --> 01:05:27,960
And all of a sudden
she just hauls up and, bam,

1249
01:05:28,174 --> 01:05:30,461
smashes me across the face.

1250
01:05:30,677 --> 01:05:33,636
"Whenever I drop something,
you pick it up!"

1251
01:05:33,847 --> 01:05:38,091
You know,
she was just out of control.

1252
01:05:38,309 --> 01:05:41,427
Now I can be forgiving
for all that erratic behavior

1253
01:05:41,646 --> 01:05:44,389
because in a way
she was a victim

1254
01:05:44,607 --> 01:05:47,441
of the very system
that made her famous.

1255
01:05:56,703 --> 01:05:58,410
<i>Thank you very much.
Howdy-hi, Shindiggers.</i>

1256
01:05:58,621 --> 01:06:01,079
<i>I'm Jimmy O'Neill and tonight
it's my great pleasure</i>

1257
01:06:01,291 --> 01:06:04,079
<i>to introduce the beautiful
Ms. Hedy Lamarr.</i>

1258
01:06:09,174 --> 01:06:12,838
Of course anyone growing up
in Hollywood in the early '60s

1259
01:06:13,052 --> 01:06:15,590
was aware of her
as the kind of caricature

1260
01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:18,468
of herself that she had become.

1261
01:06:18,683 --> 01:06:20,140
Lucille Ball, I remember,

1262
01:06:20,351 --> 01:06:24,766
used to do an outrageous
takeoff of Tandelayo.

1263
01:06:35,158 --> 01:06:37,241
I am Tandelayo.

1264
01:06:40,246 --> 01:06:42,158
I think it was offensive to her.

1265
01:06:42,373 --> 01:06:43,989
She didn't want to be a joke.

1266
01:06:45,752 --> 01:06:48,540
Mom was not in a good...
good way

1267
01:06:48,755 --> 01:06:50,371
when I was away at college.

1268
01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:53,173
I remember one day
walking to school at Cal,

1269
01:06:53,384 --> 01:06:54,249
with my books,

1270
01:06:54,469 --> 01:06:55,960
and I walked past a newsstand

1271
01:06:56,179 --> 01:06:58,011
and there's a picture
of Mom in jail.

1272
01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:03,516
Mrs. Lamarr was shopping

1273
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:05,390
at the May Company
Department Store

1274
01:07:05,605 --> 01:07:06,937
and evidently was arrested

1275
01:07:07,148 --> 01:07:08,434
by one of the security personnel

1276
01:07:08,650 --> 01:07:10,016
of the store.

1277
01:07:10,235 --> 01:07:11,442
And it was apparent that she had

1278
01:07:11,653 --> 01:07:15,067
something like
approximately $14,000 on her,

1279
01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:18,490
but she had still taken
about $80 worth of merchandise.

1280
01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:21,239
When you see that
on the front page,

1281
01:07:21,454 --> 01:07:23,366
it's like you want
to just crawl in a hole.

1282
01:07:25,166 --> 01:07:26,577
The defendant
is quoted as saying,

1283
01:07:26,793 --> 01:07:28,455
"I didn't mean
to steal anything.

1284
01:07:28,670 --> 01:07:30,377
I'll be glad to pay
for the items.

1285
01:07:30,588 --> 01:07:33,046
I have the money."

1286
01:07:33,258 --> 01:07:34,874
She was acquitted for that.

1287
01:07:35,093 --> 01:07:37,176
She said it was
a misunderstanding.

1288
01:07:37,387 --> 01:07:39,049
Who knows?

1289
01:07:39,264 --> 01:07:42,177
You know, a lot of people
handle stress in different ways.

1290
01:07:44,686 --> 01:07:46,643
It was a shock.

1291
01:07:46,854 --> 01:07:50,063
She was such a big star.

1292
01:07:50,275 --> 01:07:53,063
She seemed so untouchable

1293
01:07:53,278 --> 01:07:54,610
to be reduced to that.

1294
01:07:54,821 --> 01:07:56,687
And I think that
most people thought

1295
01:07:56,906 --> 01:07:59,193
it must be a kind
of mental illness.

1296
01:07:59,409 --> 01:08:01,446
I want to see the store manager.

1297
01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:02,447
No.

1298
01:08:02,662 --> 01:08:03,948
I want to see the store manager.

1299
01:08:04,163 --> 01:08:05,404
You're not seeing
the store manager.

1300
01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:07,489
Andy Warhol's
school of filmmaking

1301
01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:12,044
makes a film that is very
obviously lampooning her image.

1302
01:08:12,255 --> 01:08:14,588
And she becomes,
essentially, a punch line.

1303
01:08:16,050 --> 01:08:18,007
The shoplifting also resulted

1304
01:08:18,219 --> 01:08:20,211
in her inability
to play her final role.

1305
01:08:21,514 --> 01:08:22,846
She was signed to do

1306
01:08:23,057 --> 01:08:24,389
<i>Picture Mommy Dead</i>

1307
01:08:24,601 --> 01:08:27,594
and Zsa Zsa Gabor
stepped in to replace her.

1308
01:08:27,812 --> 01:08:29,223
They just fired me.

1309
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,146
- Were you shocked?
- No.

1310
01:08:31,357 --> 01:08:33,189
I'm not shocked at that, no.

1311
01:08:33,401 --> 01:08:35,188
This is gonna go
into your book, I trust.

1312
01:08:35,403 --> 01:08:37,065
Oh, yes, indeed.

1313
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:38,111
What's the name of that book?

1314
01:08:38,323 --> 01:08:40,986
The longer I wait,
the better the book gets.

1315
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,533
Somebody suggested
doing her autobiography,

1316
01:08:43,745 --> 01:08:45,236
that she should do it.

1317
01:08:45,455 --> 01:08:47,822
She had no interest
in the book itself,

1318
01:08:48,041 --> 01:08:50,533
but she wanted
the money from it.

1319
01:08:50,752 --> 01:08:53,995
There really hadn't been
any sort of scandalous tell-all.

1320
01:08:54,213 --> 01:08:56,626
She spoke with ghostwriters

1321
01:08:56,841 --> 01:08:58,707
for many, many hours
about her past,

1322
01:08:58,926 --> 01:09:00,918
and then they translated
her memories

1323
01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:02,298
into a narrative.

1324
01:09:02,513 --> 01:09:04,220
I think her business manager
was paid off

1325
01:09:04,432 --> 01:09:07,345
to get all this stuff past her.

1326
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,222
And she didn't want to deal
with paperwork,

1327
01:09:09,437 --> 01:09:11,053
so she just trusted him.

1328
01:09:11,272 --> 01:09:15,186
Your book,
called <i>Ecstasy and Me...</i>

1329
01:09:15,401 --> 01:09:16,733
Don't talk about that.

1330
01:09:16,944 --> 01:09:18,060
That's not my book.

1331
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:19,565
- You wrote it.
- No.

1332
01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:22,273
Did that hurt your image
in Hollywood?

1333
01:09:22,492 --> 01:09:23,903
I don't know what is an image.

1334
01:09:24,118 --> 01:09:25,905
I mean,
what's your image, Woody?

1335
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,486
What's my im... same as yours.

1336
01:09:29,374 --> 01:09:31,741
Okay, now you want me
to tell you what your image is?

1337
01:09:31,959 --> 01:09:34,542
- Yeah.
- It's a glamorous,

1338
01:09:34,754 --> 01:09:36,837
beautiful,

1339
01:09:37,048 --> 01:09:39,631
internationally known star

1340
01:09:39,842 --> 01:09:42,300
who obviously rides
in limousines

1341
01:09:42,512 --> 01:09:43,923
and has great jewels

1342
01:09:44,138 --> 01:09:46,926
and you don't scrub
your kitchen floors.

1343
01:09:47,141 --> 01:09:49,474
I don't like that, no,
but tell me more.

1344
01:09:49,686 --> 01:09:51,177
I never lived that way.

1345
01:09:51,396 --> 01:09:52,978
Isn't that what it's all about?

1346
01:09:53,189 --> 01:09:54,555
No, not to me.

1347
01:09:54,774 --> 01:09:56,140
I guess in the image it is.

1348
01:09:57,527 --> 01:10:01,066
She was known for her glamour
and her beauty.

1349
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:02,691
It was impossible to live up to

1350
01:10:02,907 --> 01:10:04,523
as she got older.

1351
01:10:04,742 --> 01:10:06,608
She would see that

1352
01:10:06,828 --> 01:10:08,865
and you knew
that it disturbed her.

1353
01:10:11,666 --> 01:10:14,374
She started having
plastic surgery in her 40s.

1354
01:10:16,879 --> 01:10:18,666
One of her plastic surgeons
told me once

1355
01:10:18,881 --> 01:10:21,589
that she was a groundbreaker
even in plastic surgery

1356
01:10:21,801 --> 01:10:24,009
where she came up with ideas.

1357
01:10:24,220 --> 01:10:27,258
She said, "My arms are crepey
and I want you to cut here

1358
01:10:27,473 --> 01:10:28,805
right in the line of the fold

1359
01:10:29,016 --> 01:10:30,382
and I want you to get rid
of the excess skin

1360
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:32,058
and leave the scar here.

1361
01:10:32,270 --> 01:10:35,263
Leave the scar on my knee,
behind my knee.

1362
01:10:35,481 --> 01:10:37,518
Put the scar behind my ear.

1363
01:10:37,734 --> 01:10:40,647
And they did it
and the surgeons said, you know,

1364
01:10:40,862 --> 01:10:42,103
"A lot of these things she did

1365
01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:44,153
we were never doing before."

1366
01:10:46,492 --> 01:10:48,324
You'll mention her
to an older plastic surgeon

1367
01:10:48,536 --> 01:10:50,198
and they remember their...

1368
01:10:50,413 --> 01:10:52,245
all their actresses
coming in saying,

1369
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:54,289
"You know, well, Hedy,
she had this done.

1370
01:10:54,500 --> 01:10:56,457
Can I get this done too?"

1371
01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:58,535
She was really one of the first
women out there saying,

1372
01:10:58,755 --> 01:11:00,041
"Why isn't this possible?

1373
01:11:00,256 --> 01:11:01,463
Why can't we do this?"

1374
01:11:03,801 --> 01:11:05,463
She looked wonderful
for her age,

1375
01:11:05,678 --> 01:11:07,294
but all of that didn't work

1376
01:11:07,513 --> 01:11:09,675
because people still wanted

1377
01:11:09,891 --> 01:11:12,429
that old image of Hedy Lamarr.

1378
01:11:12,643 --> 01:11:15,181
You know, the only thing
that would have...

1379
01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:16,932
that would have solved
the problem

1380
01:11:17,148 --> 01:11:19,185
is if she'd died young.

1381
01:11:21,444 --> 01:11:23,231
People were cruel to her.

1382
01:11:23,446 --> 01:11:26,985
People would come up and say,
"You <i>were</i> so beautiful."

1383
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:28,532
The press was mean.

1384
01:11:33,331 --> 01:11:35,163
I said, "Oh, Mom,

1385
01:11:35,374 --> 01:11:40,165
I feel I really have empathy
for that pressure on you."

1386
01:11:40,379 --> 01:11:43,838
So no wonder
she kind of hid away.

1387
01:11:51,891 --> 01:11:54,349
<i>Do you think
you are unsociable?</i>

1388
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:56,059
Me? No!

1389
01:11:56,312 --> 01:11:57,894
Have I been reserved with you?

1390
01:11:58,105 --> 01:12:02,190
<i>No, I mean are you unsociable
here in America?</i>

1391
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:06,395
I only know that they
do not understand me.

1392
01:12:06,614 --> 01:12:10,984
How can you understand
a person who

1393
01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:14,703
has had as many phases
in life as I have?

1394
01:12:14,914 --> 01:12:17,657
I have been through a lot,
my whole life.

1395
01:12:21,671 --> 01:12:23,207
You start to think,

1396
01:12:23,422 --> 01:12:26,961
"I have experienced
everything now in life."

1397
01:12:27,176 --> 01:12:29,168
"Now I want peace."

1398
01:12:29,387 --> 01:12:32,471
I miss Vienna.

1399
01:12:32,682 --> 01:12:34,924
I would like to make
a movie about it.

1400
01:12:35,142 --> 01:12:36,849
<i>What would the movie look like?</i>

1401
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:43,899
<i>All of the nice things
I have seen when I was a child.</i>

1402
01:12:44,110 --> 01:12:47,103
<i>The opera.</i>

1403
01:12:47,321 --> 01:12:50,655
<i>The Spanish Riding School.</i>

1404
01:12:50,867 --> 01:12:52,608
<i>Schönbrunn Palace.</i>

1405
01:12:52,827 --> 01:12:55,160
<i>My school in Döbling.</i>

1406
01:12:55,371 --> 01:12:58,535
Whatever, I don't know.

1407
01:12:58,749 --> 01:13:01,082
I am always Austrian.

1408
01:13:16,684 --> 01:13:20,769
We met in person
two times in my life.

1409
01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:24,269
She would send me
autographed pictures of herself,

1410
01:13:24,483 --> 01:13:25,894
you know,

1411
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:29,899
which they're mostly like
those studio prints.

1412
01:13:32,241 --> 01:13:34,107
Even though she says
it was a curse,

1413
01:13:34,327 --> 01:13:38,071
that's what people liked
and loved about her and she...

1414
01:13:38,289 --> 01:13:41,578
for some reason I think
she thought even her family,

1415
01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:45,160
her grandchildren,
her children want that.

1416
01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:53,794
She did a lot of sadly
not so good plastic surgery

1417
01:13:54,013 --> 01:13:55,629
in her later years,

1418
01:13:55,848 --> 01:14:00,058
each one fixing the flaws
of the last.

1419
01:14:00,269 --> 01:14:03,103
And she no longer
went out in public.

1420
01:14:06,233 --> 01:14:07,849
And then the money
started running out

1421
01:14:08,069 --> 01:14:09,685
because she only got something

1422
01:14:09,904 --> 01:14:11,736
from Screen Actors Guild

1423
01:14:11,948 --> 01:14:14,986
and Social Security.

1424
01:14:15,201 --> 01:14:16,908
<i>All they give me $300.</i>

1425
01:14:17,119 --> 01:14:18,155
<i>Per month?</i>

1426
01:14:18,371 --> 01:14:19,236
<i>Yep.</i>

1427
01:14:19,455 --> 01:14:21,196
<i>That's not much, is it?</i>

1428
01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:23,623
<i>No, it's not very much.</i>

1429
01:14:23,834 --> 01:14:25,746
<i>Have you ever tried to get... uh</i>

1430
01:14:25,962 --> 01:14:27,578
<i>some recompense...
for your idea?</i>

1431
01:14:27,797 --> 01:14:28,708
<i>...the patent?</i>

1432
01:14:28,923 --> 01:14:29,504
<i>No.</i>

1433
01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:34,050
<i>I was surprised that they
don't even acknowledge it.</i>

1434
01:14:34,261 --> 01:14:38,881
In 1969, Hedy had written
to a friend in the Navy

1435
01:14:39,100 --> 01:14:42,764
asking if he could find out
what happened to her patent.

1436
01:14:42,979 --> 01:14:45,972
"Laura Slainier,
Washington Patent Office,

1437
01:14:46,190 --> 01:14:48,102
has an invention of mine,

1438
01:14:48,317 --> 01:14:50,058
a missile-guided torpedo.

1439
01:14:50,277 --> 01:14:52,519
Maybe you can get it."

1440
01:14:52,738 --> 01:14:55,776
So this was important to her.

1441
01:14:55,992 --> 01:14:57,824
His reply has been lost,

1442
01:14:58,035 --> 01:15:00,448
but she probably learned
that her idea,

1443
01:15:00,663 --> 01:15:02,029
frequency hopping,

1444
01:15:02,248 --> 01:15:06,117
had been put to use
in military communications.

1445
01:15:06,335 --> 01:15:09,669
By the time
of the Cuban Missile Crisis,

1446
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,463
when President Kennedy
sent Navy ships

1447
01:15:12,675 --> 01:15:14,007
to blockade Cuba,

1448
01:15:14,218 --> 01:15:16,210
the ships that were running
the blockade

1449
01:15:16,429 --> 01:15:19,672
were all equipped
with frequency-hopped radios.

1450
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:22,052
When she found out
that the patent was used,

1451
01:15:22,268 --> 01:15:25,261
she thought, "Hey, I should be
making some money from this."

1452
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,017
<i>I mean, isn't that normal
to get something?</i>

1453
01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:29,188
<i>Yes, it is.</i>

1454
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,143
<i>Well... apparently
they didn't think so.</i>

1455
01:15:32,361 --> 01:15:35,149
<i>Well, it has to do
with the nature of patent law.</i>

1456
01:15:35,364 --> 01:15:38,027
<i>I think that it wasn't
actually used</i>

1457
01:15:38,242 --> 01:15:39,653
<i>during the life
of the patent</i>

1458
01:15:39,869 --> 01:15:41,531
<i>and it was only after
the patent expired</i>

1459
01:15:41,746 --> 01:15:44,113
<i>that it went into common use.</i>

1460
01:15:44,331 --> 01:15:45,538
<i>I don't think so.</i>

1461
01:15:45,750 --> 01:15:48,083
<i>They used it before!</i>

1462
01:15:48,294 --> 01:15:50,160
For Hedy to be paid,

1463
01:15:50,379 --> 01:15:52,086
the Navy had to use her patent

1464
01:15:52,298 --> 01:15:55,962
before it expired in 1959.

1465
01:15:56,177 --> 01:16:00,672
And there's evidence they did
give it to a contractor.

1466
01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:04,383
Romuald Scibor sent me an email.

1467
01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:09,017
And he said, 19...
it was about '55,

1468
01:16:09,231 --> 01:16:13,145
he said he was handed
that patent.

1469
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,694
And they were tasked
to create a sonobuoy.

1470
01:16:18,324 --> 01:16:22,534
A sonobuoy is a floating
submarine detection device.

1471
01:16:25,831 --> 01:16:28,869
Someone in the Navy
found the patent and thought,

1472
01:16:29,085 --> 01:16:30,576
"Well, I don't know
if there's anything here,

1473
01:16:30,795 --> 01:16:32,957
but let's toss it
to a contractor."

1474
01:16:33,172 --> 01:16:36,006
And he took that patent
and used it

1475
01:16:36,217 --> 01:16:39,085
as the basis for communications

1476
01:16:39,303 --> 01:16:41,465
from the sonobuoy in the water

1477
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,592
to a passing naval airplane

1478
01:16:43,808 --> 01:16:45,424
that would also be secure.

1479
01:16:47,853 --> 01:16:51,472
The inventor
of the sonobuoy had a website

1480
01:16:51,690 --> 01:16:52,771
where he paid tribute

1481
01:16:52,983 --> 01:16:56,067
to the Markey-Antheil invention.

1482
01:16:56,278 --> 01:16:57,189
Will you take a look?

1483
01:16:57,404 --> 01:16:58,565
Sure.

1484
01:16:59,824 --> 01:17:00,940
<i>A Tribute to Hedy Lamarr</i>

1485
01:17:01,158 --> 01:17:03,024
by Romuald Scibor-Marchocki.

1486
01:17:03,244 --> 01:17:05,327
No, I haven't seen this.

1487
01:17:05,538 --> 01:17:07,245
"I designed the sonobuoy,

1488
01:17:07,456 --> 01:17:11,826
one of the first deployments
of frequency hopping."

1489
01:17:12,044 --> 01:17:15,253
And he goes on to write
about surveillance drones

1490
01:17:15,464 --> 01:17:17,296
at Aerojet-General.

1491
01:17:17,508 --> 01:17:22,424
"I was the systems manager
building the surveillance drone

1492
01:17:22,638 --> 01:17:25,130
which eventually
flew over Vietnam.

1493
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,811
I personally designed
the reliable and secure

1494
01:17:32,022 --> 01:17:34,730
two-way radio
communications system.

1495
01:17:34,942 --> 01:17:36,228
For the first time,

1496
01:17:36,443 --> 01:17:40,778
we had the ability
to switch frequencies rapidly.

1497
01:17:40,990 --> 01:17:43,949
Now that I know who invented
frequency hopping,

1498
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,868
I, who was the only person
who remembers

1499
01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:50,447
those early applications
of this concept,

1500
01:17:50,666 --> 01:17:55,001
want to express
my sincere admiration

1501
01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:58,171
and belated thanks
to Hedy Lamarr."

1502
01:18:04,138 --> 01:18:06,130
How 'bout them apples?

1503
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:09,136
She should have gotten paid.

1504
01:18:20,529 --> 01:18:23,522
<i>What would you have
the government do to repay you?</i>

1505
01:18:23,741 --> 01:18:26,905
<i>At this point
I don't even care.</i>

1506
01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:32,497
There she is.

1507
01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:34,620
The Tyrolean beauty.

1508
01:18:45,221 --> 01:18:46,928
Toward the end of Hedy's life

1509
01:18:47,139 --> 01:18:49,973
she began to reflect.

1510
01:18:50,184 --> 01:18:51,891
She began to have insight.

1511
01:18:56,857 --> 01:18:59,395
<i>Well, things don't always
work... straight forward.</i>

1512
01:18:59,610 --> 01:19:01,772
<i>They have detours sometimes.</i>

1513
01:19:01,987 --> 01:19:03,148
<i>That's part of living.</i>

1514
01:19:03,364 --> 01:19:04,605
<i>Yep.</i>

1515
01:19:04,823 --> 01:19:08,533
<i>I didn't expect that I'd come
here and fall apart either</i>

1516
01:19:08,744 --> 01:19:10,531
<i>but things happen.</i>

1517
01:19:12,665 --> 01:19:15,783
She always talked about
writing her autobiography

1518
01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,038
and wanting to get
the story out

1519
01:19:18,254 --> 01:19:19,870
about who the real
Hedy Lamarr was,

1520
01:19:20,089 --> 01:19:21,546
not the Hedy Lamarr
in the movies,

1521
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:23,214
which I think she often thought

1522
01:19:23,425 --> 01:19:25,667
movies were really trivial.

1523
01:19:25,886 --> 01:19:29,425
<i>Now I'm becoming smart
all of a sudden.</i>

1524
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,222
<i>Better late than never, right?</i>

1525
01:19:31,433 --> 01:19:32,093
<i>Absolutely.</i>

1526
01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:33,971
<i>Maybe someday
I'll become smart too.</i>

1527
01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:36,178
<i>I gave you a little lesson
there right now.</i>

1528
01:19:36,397 --> 01:19:37,057
<i>Yes ma'am.</i>

1529
01:19:38,565 --> 01:19:39,772
<i>I guess I should let you...</i>

1530
01:19:39,984 --> 01:19:40,565
<i>I guess you should.</i>

1531
01:19:40,776 --> 01:19:42,017
<i>...let you go, but...</i>

1532
01:19:42,236 --> 01:19:42,817
<i>I enjoyed talking.</i>

1533
01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:44,519
<i>I enjoyed talking to you
and perhaps I'll...</i>

1534
01:19:44,738 --> 01:19:46,229
<i>Maybe you can do some good.</i>

1535
01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:47,655
<i>I hope so.</i>

1536
01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:51,158
The article I wrote,

1537
01:19:51,370 --> 01:19:53,077
I like to think that
that was really a part

1538
01:19:53,289 --> 01:19:56,077
of how she gained recognition.

1539
01:19:57,751 --> 01:19:59,037
So <i>Forbes</i> magazine,

1540
01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:00,289
May 1990,

1541
01:20:00,504 --> 01:20:03,918
this is the first time
the mainstream press

1542
01:20:04,133 --> 01:20:07,672
released the information
that Hedy was glamorous, yes,

1543
01:20:07,886 --> 01:20:08,842
stupid, no.

1544
01:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,674
I called her and said, you know,
"Mom, people are interested

1545
01:20:13,892 --> 01:20:18,102
in what you thought of
back in '42."

1546
01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:20,180
She said, "It's about time."

1547
01:20:23,277 --> 01:20:25,143
The first to pick up
Hedy's story

1548
01:20:25,362 --> 01:20:28,196
were people
in the communications industry

1549
01:20:28,407 --> 01:20:30,490
because they realized
frequency hopping

1550
01:20:30,701 --> 01:20:32,237
was revolutionary.

1551
01:20:34,079 --> 01:20:37,197
It was already finding
its way into GPS,

1552
01:20:37,416 --> 01:20:40,159
Wi-Fi technology, Bluetooth,

1553
01:20:40,377 --> 01:20:43,961
and billion-dollar
military satellites.

1554
01:20:44,173 --> 01:20:46,916
<i>Five, four, three,</i>

1555
01:20:47,134 --> 01:20:48,295
<i>Atlas engine ignition,</i>

1556
01:20:48,510 --> 01:20:49,751
<i>one, zero,</i>

1557
01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:52,053
<i>and liftoff
of Lockheed Martin...</i>

1558
01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:55,052
The Milstar
satellite system provides

1559
01:20:55,267 --> 01:20:57,600
protected, secure communications

1560
01:20:57,811 --> 01:20:59,222
for the President
of the United States

1561
01:20:59,438 --> 01:21:02,181
and high priority
military users.

1562
01:21:02,399 --> 01:21:05,233
The work that Hedy Lamarr did
in her patent,

1563
01:21:05,444 --> 01:21:07,310
Milstar took that technology

1564
01:21:07,529 --> 01:21:08,895
in order to implement
frequency hopping

1565
01:21:09,114 --> 01:21:10,070
on the system.

1566
01:21:10,282 --> 01:21:12,194
And that's what we trust
our most important

1567
01:21:12,409 --> 01:21:16,153
nuclear command
and control messages with.

1568
01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:18,989
The Navy, Milstar,
and Lockheed Martin

1569
01:21:19,208 --> 01:21:20,369
actually gave Hedy an award

1570
01:21:20,584 --> 01:21:23,167
thanking her for coming up
with her idea.

1571
01:21:24,213 --> 01:21:25,169
And when I called her, I said,

1572
01:21:25,381 --> 01:21:28,124
"Mom, they're gonna give you
an award,"

1573
01:21:28,342 --> 01:21:31,335
but she just didn't want
to be seen.

1574
01:21:31,553 --> 01:21:34,216
The award I'm about to present
is in recognition

1575
01:21:34,431 --> 01:21:36,969
of a famous actress
turned inventor,

1576
01:21:37,184 --> 01:21:38,971
Hedy Lamarr.

1577
01:21:40,562 --> 01:21:43,430
I gave a talk
to about 800 people.

1578
01:21:43,649 --> 01:21:44,981
But right in the middle of it...

1579
01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:45,978
If I have seen farther...

1580
01:21:47,277 --> 01:21:48,484
Oh, my God.

1581
01:21:50,614 --> 01:21:52,105
Are you serious?

1582
01:21:53,951 --> 01:21:54,907
My mother's here too.

1583
01:21:55,119 --> 01:21:56,485
I'll tell you
a little bit later.

1584
01:21:56,703 --> 01:21:58,319
Hello?

1585
01:21:58,539 --> 01:21:59,495
How did it go?

1586
01:21:59,706 --> 01:22:01,072
I'm in the middle of it.

1587
01:22:11,093 --> 01:22:13,301
I just said, "Mom,
if you could say something,

1588
01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,094
what would you say?"

1589
01:22:15,305 --> 01:22:17,262
And this is what she said.

1590
01:22:20,811 --> 01:22:25,055
<i>I'm happy that this invention
has been so successful.</i>

1591
01:22:25,274 --> 01:22:28,233
<i>I appreciate your
acknowledgement</i>

1592
01:22:28,444 --> 01:22:31,061
<i>of you honoring me</i>

1593
01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:33,897
<i>and that it was not done
in vain.</i>

1594
01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:35,482
<i>Thank you.</i>

1595
01:22:35,701 --> 01:22:36,361
<i>Perfect.</i>

1596
01:22:36,577 --> 01:22:37,909
<i>- Okay?
- Okay.</i>

1597
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:38,735
<i>I love you!</i>

1598
01:22:38,954 --> 01:22:39,614
<i>Love you too.</i>

1599
01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:40,866
<i>Bye.</i>

1600
01:22:47,546 --> 01:22:49,708
And they all stood up
and clapped.

1601
01:22:49,923 --> 01:22:51,380
I thought it was really great.

1602
01:22:52,885 --> 01:22:55,298
She would love to be remembered

1603
01:22:55,512 --> 01:22:56,878
as someone who contributed

1604
01:22:57,097 --> 01:23:00,306
to the well-being of humankind.

1605
01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:03,760
She did make her mark.

1606
01:23:03,979 --> 01:23:07,768
It's the one thing
she did for other people

1607
01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:11,192
that she's gonna be long,
long remembered for.

1608
01:23:15,908 --> 01:23:17,115
It was New Year's,

1609
01:23:17,326 --> 01:23:19,739
January 1st, 2000.

1610
01:23:19,953 --> 01:23:22,616
She called my sister and I
separately,

1611
01:23:22,831 --> 01:23:24,117
"Turn on the TV!

1612
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:25,369
It's Vienna, Vienna!

1613
01:23:25,584 --> 01:23:26,870
You'll see Vienna!"

1614
01:23:29,171 --> 01:23:30,207
And so we turn on the TV

1615
01:23:30,422 --> 01:23:32,084
and the Viennese
Symphony Orchestra

1616
01:23:32,299 --> 01:23:34,165
was playing on TV.

1617
01:23:40,891 --> 01:23:42,382
She died a few days later.

1618
01:23:44,019 --> 01:23:46,227
She fell asleep
and she just didn't wake up.

1619
01:23:53,237 --> 01:23:56,025
<i>I'll read you something pretty.</i>

1620
01:23:56,240 --> 01:24:01,452
<i>People are unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered.</i>

1621
01:24:01,662 --> 01:24:05,372
<i>Love them anyway.</i>

1622
01:24:05,582 --> 01:24:07,995
<i>If you do good,
people will accuse you</i>

1623
01:24:08,210 --> 01:24:11,374
<i>of selfish alternative motives.</i>

1624
01:24:11,588 --> 01:24:12,999
<i>Do good anyway.</i>

1625
01:24:16,385 --> 01:24:19,173
<i>The biggest people
with the biggest ideas</i>

1626
01:24:19,388 --> 01:24:20,720
<i>can be shot down</i>

1627
01:24:20,931 --> 01:24:24,424
<i>by the smallest people
with the smallest minds.</i>

1628
01:24:24,643 --> 01:24:26,760
<i>Think big anyway.</i>

1629
01:24:29,773 --> 01:24:31,685
<i>What you spend years building</i>

1630
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,643
<i>may be destroyed overnight.</i>

1631
01:24:34,861 --> 01:24:37,399
<i>Build anyway.</i>

1632
01:24:37,614 --> 01:24:39,571
<i>Give the world
the best you have</i>

1633
01:24:39,783 --> 01:24:42,821
<i>and you'll be kicked
into the teeth.</i>

1634
01:24:43,036 --> 01:24:45,995
<i>Give the world
the best you've got anyway.</i>