Hedy Lamarr’s Magnificent Breast
When I sat down to read this post, I felt as if Dr. Faustus had blogged here before about the legendary actress Hedy Lamarr. If so, my search appliances have failed me today; but I’m probably thinking about his post on Erotic Mad Science, in which he mentions her “very bold nude scene” in the 1933 movie Ecstasy. Her Wikipedia entry states:
In early 1933 she starred in Gustav Machatý’s notorious film Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film made in Prague, in which she played the love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband. Closeups of her face and long shots of her running nude through the woods gave the film notoriety.
The trigger for this post was the appearance on Kinky Delight (originally from Milk & Honey, via Erectus) of a large and attractive still photo from that movie, featuring Hedy, one breast bared, looking emotively at the camera:
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Her eyes are mesmerizing….
Magnificent indeed…
~EA
Few people know that Hedy received a patent in 1942 for a frequency hopping spread-spectrum telecommunications technology that helped torpedoes evade detection or jamming and which also had applications for use in preventing secret communication interception.
It might be of interest to note here that Ms. Lamarr once claimed that her “emotive” looks were the result of an off-screen director continually poking her in the ass with a safety pin.
Although I have always heard various mentions of her, and this famous oft-banned and censored film, I most remember her name from the infamous “Blazing Saddles” film. Hedy sued Mel Brooks for using her name therein (as well as naming a major character Hedley Lamarr, and then making fun of the name similarity throughout…), but she later settled out of court for about $1000 according to Brooks. The prophetic film even had a line within that predicted she would sue.
My favorite exchange involving the character would be:
Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.
The character Hedley Lamarr was probably the first to use the term “bull dyke” in a mainstream film, and likely the first person anywhere ever to utter the phrase: “Gentlemen, please rest your sphincters.”
I doubt that Ms. Lamarr would have prevailed in court, and probably just sued for the publicity. That, and the fact that in those days, her career was on the wane, she was twice accused of shoplifting, and she herself wrote around the time that she couldn’t afford to buy a ready-made sandwich…
You must admit – that’s a very pretty tittie , regardless of who it belongs to
Hedy Lamarr, one of Hollywood’s stunning beauties. Plus she had a GIFTED MIND THAT GAVE HER BRAIN To INVENT THINGS, THAT HELPED THE ALLIES WIN WORLD WAR TWO. Thank you HEDY.