{"id":35116,"date":"2020-01-15T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35116"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:53:54","slug":"hedy-lamarr-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35116","title":{"rendered":"Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hedy-Lamarr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35117 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hedy-Lamarr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hedy-Lamarr.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hedy-Lamarr-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hedy-Lamarr-90x60.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8173\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8173','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=35116-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TrinityTalks3.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p>A talk by Professor Ruth Barton, School of Creative Arts,\u00a0 as part of the <em>Women\u2019s Stories<\/em> series, a collaboration between Near FM Community Radio and the Trinity Long Room Hub.<\/p>\n<p>When Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) made her Hollywood debut in the 1938 exotic adventure, Algiers, Time magazine reflected the popular response to her on-screen presence, branding the young Viennese emigre a \u2019smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale\u2019. Since her death and even somewhat before that, Hedy Lamarr\u2019s reputation has grown. To quite a large extent, this has been because of her increasing fame as an inventor. During the war she, with American avant-garde composer George Antheil, invented a long-range torpedo missile device that was patented, but never used. Instead, she was encouraged to put her beauty rather than her brains to the service of the American war effort, raising many millions of dollars in war bonds. Her career, meanwhile, fell prey to new postwar expectations of women\u2019s roles and to her own reluctance to do anything other than, in her own words, \u2018stand still and look stupid\u2019 on screen.<\/p>\n<p>This talk considers Lamarr\u2019s dilemma and the tensions between beauty and intelligence, which have not gone away. It may have become easier for women in science since Lamarr\u2019s invention was rejected, but prejudice around what constitutes appropriate careers for women lingers on to the detriment of scientific exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by the Broadcasting authority of Ireland with the Television licence fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk by Professor Ruth Barton, School of Creative Arts,\u00a0 as part of the Women\u2019s Stories series, a collaboration between Near FM Community Radio and the Trinity Long Room Hub. When Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) made her Hollywood debut in the 1938 exotic adventure, Algiers, Time magazine reflected the popular response to her on-screen presence, branding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8174\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8174','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=35116-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TrinityTalks3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TrinityTalks3.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20601],"tags":[16522,16987,16513,12821],"class_list":["post-35116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinity-talks","tag-dr-ruth-barton","tag-hedy-lamarr","tag-trinity-long-room-hub","tag-womens-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55540,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions\/55540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}