Hedy Lamarr : the invention of a star /

“…Hedy Lamarr, l'invention d'une star…”
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Hedy Lamarr : the most beautiful woman in film / by Barton, Ruth

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Hedy Lamarr the most beautiful woman in film / by Barton, Ruth

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Untold. mother of WiFi /

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Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world / by Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Hedy Lamarr, inventor -- A charming Austrian girl -- Bad boy of music -- Mechanisms -- Between times -- Leaving Fritz -- Cinemogling -- Frequency hopping -- Flashes of genius -- Red-hot apparatus -- O pioneers!…”

Extraordinary women.

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In the limelight and under the microscope : forms and functions of female celebrity /

Table of Contents: “…: the posthumous celebrity of Hedy Lamarr /…”
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Noisemakers : 25 women who raised their voices & changed the world : a graphic collection from Kazoo /

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Great lives from history.

Table of Contents: “…Senda Berenson Abbott-Susan Estrich -- Volume 2. Max Factor-Hedy Lamarr -- Volume 3. Norman Lamm-Solomon Schechter -- Volume 4. …”
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Off-white Hollywood : American culture and ethnic female stardom / by Negra, Diane, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood film and the narrativization of ethnic femininity -- The wearing of the green : Irishness as a promotion discourse in the career of Colleen Moore --Immigrant stardom in imperial America : Pola Negri and the problem of typology -- Sonja Henie in Hollywood : whiteness, athleticism, and Americanization -- Ethnicity and the interventionist imagination : domesticity, exoticism, and scandal in the persona of Hedy Lamarr -- Marisa Tomei and the fantasy of ethnicity -- Stardom, corporeality, and ethnic indeterminancy : Cher's disrupted/disruptive body.…”
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Sunday Morning.

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Visions of the maid : Joan of Arc in American film and culture / by Blaetz, Robin, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…DeMille's Joan the Woman, 1916 -- The demise of Joan of Arc -- Joan of Arc between the wars -- The war years: Between Us Girls, Joan of Paris, and Joan of Ozark -- The return of the maid: The miracle of the bells and Joan of Arc -- Looking for Joan of Arc: Hedy Lamarr in The story of mankind and Jean Seberg in Saint Joan -- Conclusions: The Vietnam War and afterward.…”
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Hollywood at the races : film's love affair with the turf / by Shuback, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Selznick's Banker -- La Princesse Aly Khan: Rita Hayworth at Longchamp -- Gene Markey: From Joan Bennett to Hedy Lamarr to Myrna Loy to Calumet Farm -- The Post Golden Age: In Search of Seabiscuit.…”
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Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s /

Table of Contents: “…I've seen this one before : the construction of 'classic TV' on cable television / Derek Kompare -- Selling soap : post-war television soap opera and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- Study of a mad housewife : psychiatric discourse, the suburban home and the case of Gracie Allen / Allison McCracken -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie : ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star / Susan Murray -- Nothin' could be finah : The Dinah Shore Chevy show / Lola Clare Bratten -- Re-made for television : Hedy Lamarr's post-war star textuality / Diane Negra -- Maureen O'Hara's 'Confidential' life : recycling stars through gossip and moral biography / Mary Desjardins -- Matinee theater : difference, compromise and the 1950s daytime audience / Matthew Murray -- The BBC and the birth of The Wednesday Play, 1962-66 : institutional containment versus 'agitational contemporaneity' / Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh -- Mystery and imagination : anatomy of a Gothic anthology series / Helen Wheatley -- Exploiting the intimate screen : The quartermass experiment, fantasy and the aesthetic potential of early television drama / Catherine Johnson -- This week in 1956 : the introduction of current affairs on ITV / Victoria Wegg-Prosser -- Women at work : popular drama on British television c1955-60 / Janet Thumim -- Crackint open the set : television repair and tinkering with gender, 1949-1955 / Lisa Parks.…”
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Pioneras. Las Voces Femeninas en la Construcción Cultural Italiana y Europea. by Duraccio, Caterina

Table of Contents: “…Le sovversioni estetiche di Isadora Duncan -- Capítulo XVII -- Hedy Lamarr -- Donna, diva, scienziata…”
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Think Like An Innovator : 76 inspiring business lessons from the world's greatest thinkers and innovators / by Sloane, Paul

Table of Contents: “…William ShakespearePart 4 Inventor; Eric Migicovsky; George de Mestral; Sir Hiram Maxim; Johannes Gutenberg; John Harrison; John Sipe; Jorge Odón; Louis Braille; Martin Cooper; Nick Dâ#x80;#x99;Aloisio; Percy Spencer; Ted Hoff; Thomas Edison; Trevor Baylis; Part 5 Maverick; Anita Roddick; Don Estridge; Hannibal; Viscount Horatio Nelson; Jonathan Swift; Phil Romano; Steve Jobs; Part 6 Pioneer; Auguste Escoffier; Dick Fosbury; Florence Nightingale; Guglielmo Marconi; Gustave Eiffel; Hedy Lamarr; Muhammad Yunus; Travis Kalanick; Part 7 Scientist; Sir Alexander Fleming; Alexander Graham Bell; Archimedes.…”
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The femme fatale / by Grossman, Julie, 1962-

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Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world / by Ignotofsky, Rachel, 1989-

Table of Contents: “…-- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) -- Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) -- Mary Anning (1799-1847) -- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) -- Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) -- Karen Horney (1885-1952) -- Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) -- Florence Bascom (1862-1945) -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) -- Timeline -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Edith Clarke (1883-1959) -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) -- Alice Ball (1892-1916) -- Gerty Cori (1896-1957) -- Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931) -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1900-1979) -- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) -- Grace Hopper (1906-1992) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Lab tools -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) -- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) -- Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) -- Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) -- Katherine Johnson (1918- ) -- Jane Cooke Wright (1919-2013) -- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) -- Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011) -- Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) -- Statistics in STEM -- Vera Rubin (1928-2016) -- Annie Easley (1933-2011) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Sylvia Earle (1935- ) -- Valentina Tereshkova (1937- ) -- Patricia Bath (1942- ) -- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942- ) -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ) -- Sau Lan Wu (194?…”

Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first / by Doyle, Caitlin

Table of Contents: “…-- Malala Yousafzai -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Marie-Sophie Germain -- Mary Anning -- Ada Lovelace -- Maria Mitchell -- Florence Nightingale -- Bertha RInger Benz -- Clara Barton -- Princess Theresa of Bavaria -- Sofia Kovalevskaya -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Marie Curie -- Emmy Noether -- Ruth Graves Wakefield -- Nise Da Silveira -- Rachel Carson -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Mary Leakey -- Hedy Lamarr -- Sylvia Zipset Schur -- Feature: Women in mathematics -- Rosalind Franklin -- Jane Goodall -- Sylvia Earle -- Feature: Women in technology -- Temple Grandin -- Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan -- Maryam Mirzakhani -- Inventors -- Cynisca of Sparta -- Mary "Queen of Scots" Stuart -- Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock -- Hilda Hewlett -- Charlotte "Chatty" Cooper Sterry -- Jeanne Calment -- Amelia Earhart -- Amy Johnson -- Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias -- Sonja Henie -- Virginia Halas McCaskey -- Feature: Women in aviation -- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova -- Nachthexen "Night witches" -- Billie Jean King -- Rockford Peaches -- Pat Head Summitt -- Feature: Women in tennis -- Martina Navratilova -- Nancy Lieberman -- Lynette Woodard -- Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner -- Nadia Comaneci -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Nawal El Moutawakel -- Bonnie Blair -- Trischa Zorn -- Josefa Idem -- Kristine Lilly -- Mia Hamm -- Clara Hughes -- Regina Halmich -- Ellen MacArthur -- Venus Williams -- Esther Vergeer -- Serena Williams -- Danica Patrick -- Natalie Du Toit -- Zahra Nemati -- Mary, mother of Jesus -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Tubman -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Sea change: the waves of faminism.…”

The book of gutsy women / by Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Clinton, Chelsea

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- Marie Curie and Irène Jolior-Curie -- Hedy Lamarr -- Sylvia Earle -- Sally Ride -- Mae Jemison -- HEALERS: Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Mary Edwards Walker -- Betty Ford -- Mathilde Krim -- Dr. …”