Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

People Who Shaped Our World #4
by Laurie Wallmark, Katy Wu (Illustrator)
Publisher: Union Square Kids
Hardcover, 44 pages
Current Retail Price: $18.99
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Movie star by day, ace inventor at night: learn about the hidden life of actress Hedy Lamarr!
 
To her adoring public, Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous movie star, widely considered the most beautiful woman in the world. But in private, she was something more: a brilliant inventor. And for many years only her closest friends knew her secret. Now Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu, who collaborated on Sterling’s critically acclaimed picture-book biography Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, tell the inspiring story of how, during World War Two, Lamarr developed a groundbreaking communications system that still remains essential to the security of today’s technology.

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