Thread-drifty nit-pick:— Silent film babe? Babe, yes, but Hedy Lamarr (b. Nov. 9, 1913, d. Jan. 19, 2000) was considerably after the "talkies" came in. Voici!

Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, a Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.

I'll never forget her performance as the steamy "half-breed" seductress in White Cargo (1942). To bring it back to the subject of the thread, you might be able to check the video out from your local library. I wonder what the thought-police might make of it. . . .

Don Firth