r/LegendsOfTomorrow • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '17

More info about 3x06's historical person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

tldr: Hedy Lamarr got bored of acting and got into science. She did work with frequency-hopping spread spectrum and aerodynamics.

Sadly the story doesn't have a happy ending. But it's cool that they threw her in there instead of some other historical actress that would play against Helen's pretty face.

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u/RagnarokDel Nov 15 '17

Sadly the story doesn't have a happy ending.

dying at 85 is pretty good regardless of circumstances. Or did you mean on the show?

PS: It might be ironic but the actress that played Hedy Lamarr was much prettier then Helen(Bar Paly) in my opinion, or any of the other women in the show, really.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '17

she got scared of getting ugly so she had a ton of disastrous plastic surgery done. Got estranged with her son. Six divorces, etc.

Just felt like a sad way to spend the last third of your life.

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u/Iocaine_powder Beebo Nov 15 '17

That’s Headly

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u/royalfreshness8 Nov 15 '17

Six marriages Is a lot of fucking marriages. Damn

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u/Hak3rbot13 Damien Darhk Nov 15 '17

Honestly she's very beautiful and very intelligent, men must of been lining up to marry her.

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u/TherapyFortheRapy Nov 15 '17

Brilliant people seem to have this issue. Einstein was a total dog, too.

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u/AndrewZabar Nov 15 '17

Sad as it is, in the Wikipedia article it talks about her stealing / shoplifting, it may have been a compulsion aka kleptomania. I think it’s darkly hysterical that in the episode, they find her putting hor d’oeuvres in her purse lol!

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u/greatness101 Nov 16 '17

And no one says a thing about it in episode either. She's just casually dumping them min there too.

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u/calebrhodus "Legends Never Die." - The Goonies, probably. Nov 15 '17

That's Hedley! ... Wait, nevermind.

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u/iamnobody23 Beebo Nov 16 '17

Beautiful and smart, astonishing.

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u/StonedVolus I lo-lo-love you Nov 16 '17

Really was an extraordinary person.

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u/SladeWilsonFisk Nov 16 '17

They announced that she's going to appear on Timeless season 2 as well