Hedy i George – muzyka, kino, skandale i torpedy
Hedy and George – Music, Cinema, Scandals and Torpedoes

Summary/Abstract: The unusual combination of circumstances meant that in 1942 Hollywood star of the first order Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil jointly developed and patented a remote control system for torpedoes, and the elements of that technology can be found in mobile phones and many other devices to this day. But the history of this couple includes many other fascinating episodes, such as 17 year old Hedy’s participation in the most scandalous film of the 1930s „The Ecstasy”, or riots in 1923 Paris provoked by Antheil performance of his „Mechanisms”, which event was filmed by Marcel L’Herbier, and then later used in the 1924 film L’Inhumaine („The Inhuman Woman”). Polish researchers will also be interested in the little known detail of the composer’s life, namely his Polish ancestry and his two visits to Poland in the first quarter of the 20 th century.

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