The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
— Hedy Lamarr Modern

Actress and frequency-hopping inventor

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Approx. 1940s-1950s

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