Hedy Lamarr

There are more than 2,700 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but how many of them are also in the USA National Inventors Hall of Fame? Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) belongs to both of them. Even though she was a bourgeois girl, she left school at 15 years old to work as a script at the Austrian largest film production company at the time.

She started her career with a bang:  she was the first actress to have an orgasm on screen. She was a Hollywood sex symbol who stood up to the mighty Louis B.