Hedy Lamarr
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Sep 18, 2026
Ryan VerrillHOST
We've got vintage MGM short subject, You Can't Fool a Camera.
Ryan VerrillHOST
The Lux Radio Theater broadcast with William Powell and Hedy Lamarr.
Ryan VerrillHOST
And then Screen Directors Playhouse broadcast with William Powell from 1949.
Ryan VerrillHOST
They reached deep into their archive, put as much as they could on the disc, and I love them for that.
Stephanie WeberHOST
This is the podcast that highlights the history and achievements of women in film.
Stephanie WeberHOST
On our final episode of the Actresses Who Became Power Players series, let's talk about the life and accomplishments of the beautiful and brilliant Hedy Lamarr.
Stephanie WeberHOST
Born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, on November 9, 1914, Lamar's father was a banker who valued education and curiosity, so he encouraged his only child, Hedy, to explore anything that interested her.
Stephanie WeberHOST
He'd often talk to her about machines and new technology, and the two would find out how things worked, such as printing presses, automobiles, electricity, appliances.
Stephanie WeberHOST
Because there's no way she didn't know there was nudity at all.
Stephanie WeberHOST
Other actresses were told up front that there would be nudity, which was why the two other actresses before her turned down the role.
Stephanie WeberHOST
And then it was offered to Hedy Lamarr.
Stephanie WeberHOST
She was told the same thing.
Bonnie GreerGUEST
Women were told to go back in their houses.
Bonnie GreerGUEST
The great Hedy Lamarr, who became a siren symbol in the movies, was actually a genius scientist.
Bonnie GreerGUEST
Well, she was shut down and told, take your clothes off, girl.
Bonnie GreerGUEST
That's how you're going to make money.
Robert SmithHOST
it cuts us to a carriage being pulled in the, in the French countryside with, uh, Bernays and, and count Damon or the money, um, played, uh, Damon, I played by, uh, Harvey Corman and, uh, I definitely know Harvey Korman from Blazing Saddles.
Robert SmithHOST
He was Hedy Lamarr.
Tony CoganGUEST
Hedley.
Robert SmithHOST
Thank you.
Robert SmithHOST
And then I know him primarily growing up.
Harry BartellHOST
Disillusioned you? What do you mean? Well, before I heard your story, whenever somebody mentioned the Casbah, I'd always visualize a very glamorous, romantic sort of place full of beautiful women.
Harry BartellHOST
Every one of them a ringer for Hedy Lamarr.
WatsonVOICE_ACTOR
No.
Harry BartellHOST
Yeah? And I could just see myself, handsome, dashing, going up to one of those beautiful girls and whispering in my fine French accent, Darling, you are
Brandon DavisHOST
Next Time We Live.
Brandon DavisHOST
I was thinking of the Jimmy Stewart, Hedy Lamarr movie for a second.
Brandon DavisHOST
Yeah, that's
Marsha GordonGUEST
okay.
Mark LavonierHOST
Famously, Humphrey Bogart played Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman was Ilsa Lund.
Mark LavonierHOST
In this next broadcast, those two actors had prior commitments, so they had screen actor Alan Ladd fill in alongside Hedy Lamarr.
Mark LavonierHOST
Cecil B. DeMille, our host and producer for this adaptation, heard on CBS on January 24, 1944.
Mark LavonierHOST
Lux presents Hollywood.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Lux Radio Theater brings you Hedy Lamarr, Alan Ladd, and John Loder in Casablanca with Edgar Barrier.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
Cecil B. DeMilleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
Cecil B. DeMilleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's a story of love and hate, in a background of adventure and sudden death.
Dr. WatsonVOICE_ACTOR
Disillusioned you? Why? What, what do you mean? [laughs]
Harry BartellHOST
Well, before I heard your story, whenever somebody mentioned the Casbah, I'd always visualize a very glamorous, romantic sort of place full of beautiful women, every one of them a ringer for Hedy Lamarr.
Dr. WatsonVOICE_ACTOR
No.
Harry BartellHOST
Yeah.
Bailey SarianHOST
We have a row of iconic ladies.
Bailey SarianHOST
Oh, we have Hedy Lamarr.
Bailey SarianHOST
Yes, Tippi Hedren, Josephine Baker, and oh, is that J. Edgar Hoover? No, no.
Bailey SarianHOST
No, no, no, no. Uh-uh.
43 MINS LATER
Bailey SarianHOST
Oh, sorry.
Bailey SarianHOST
Don't sexualize Paul He is a lady a really nice lady.
Bailey SarianHOST
Oh DariumMJ2184 said, so I'm supposed to be impressed that this woman dehydrated Coke into a cube that didn't taste like Coke? Darium, I think you're talking about Hedy Lamarr.
Bailey SarianHOST
And look, I mean, you're not wrong.
AlanHOST
... as we said earlier.
AlanHOST
"Guess who it is, doc? Hedy Lamarr?" "No." "Carole Lombard?" And you're like, I'm, like, Googling all of them.
MagellanHOST
Mm-hmm.
AlanHOST
It's like, American actress, American actress, American actress.
AlanHOST
Why not?
MagellanHOST
Yeah.
MagellanHOST
Um, and you know, to your point of, like, okay, we're doing a Clark Gable impression, we're mentioning Hedy Lamarr.
MagellanHOST
Like, it's not just, oh, this is a thing that people would've gotten at the time.
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