A Beautiful Mind

摘要

The first thing most people recall about HedyLamarr is that she was "the most beautiful woman in the world." It's a label that MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer attached to the Austrian native after she came to Hollywood in 1937. (Around that, time, young Hedwig Kiesler was given the screen name Lamarr, not knowing it was the surname of another Mayer ingenue who had become a heroin addict and died about a decade earlier.) Mayer's hyperbole plagued Lamarr for much of her life. She often played down her beauty, saying anyone can be glamorous ifthey "stand still and look stupid." Yet Lamarr also received plenty of credit for Kef brains.