Hedy Lamarr Archives

As we've mentioned before, someone at Marvel — Stan Lee or Al Sulman, perhaps? — was a big fan of actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr.  Of course, Marvel was not the only comic book publisher with comics influenced by the star of Algiers, Lady of the Tropics, Samson and Delilah, and numerous other films.  The screen legend[...]

Actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr had become such a big star by the mid-1940s that her name inspired the names of two different Marvel comic book characters.  Hedy Wolfe was Patsy Walker's frenemy, first appearing in Patsy's debut in Miss America Magazine v1 #2, and eventually getting title credit in the long-running Patsy and Hedy series.  But[...]

Comedy Central's Drunk History will be looking into the effects that massive popularity can have on a person's career on the next episode, titled, appropriately enough, "Fame." Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star. Okay, let's break these[...]