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Chili Palmer

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Who were the hotties from our parents or grandparents era?

I'll repost a couple here from a previous post and a few extras:

Ava Gardner
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Helen Mirren
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Natalie Wood
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Sophia Loren
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Catherine Deneuve
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Rita Hayworth
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Bridgette Bardot
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Natalie Wood
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Grace Kelly
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Sharon Tate
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Olivia De Haviland
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Joan Bennett
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Carole Landis
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Julie Andrews always did it for me
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Anne Shirley
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Hedy Lamarr
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Barbara Lawrence
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Jane Russell
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Jeanne Crain
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Myrna Loy
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Loretta Young
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Gene Tierney
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What a bunch of natural beauties , wow.
Can't pick a favorite, Natalie wood is jus stunning [emoji106] [emoji202]

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Did you know that Hedy Lamarr was an inventor that paved the way for Bluetooth and WiFi:
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Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she worked in her spare time on various hobbies and inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a carbonated drink. The beverage was unsuccessful; Lamarr herself said it tasted like Alka-Seltzer.[22] An unrelated effort resulted in Fizzies, which became a cultural icon of the 1950s-60s.




Copy of U.S. patent for "Secret Communication System"

Among the few who knew of Lamarr's inventiveness was aviation tycoon Howard Hughes. Lamarr discussed her relationship with Hughes during an interview, saying that while they dated, he actively supported her "tinkering" hobbies. He put his team of science engineers at her disposal, saying they would do or make anything she asked for.[29]


During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course.[30] With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals.[24] They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.[31][32] Antheil recalled:


We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons ... and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established Inventors' Council.[15]


Their invention was granted a patent on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey).[33] However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.[22]

In 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis), an updated version of their design at last appeared on Navy ships.[34] Lamarr and Antheil's work with spread spectrum technology contributed to the development of Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.[35]

In 1997, they received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.[36] Lamarr was featured on the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel.[10] In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[37]
(copied from Wikipedia)
 
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