The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict

Written by Marie Benedict
Read by Suzanne Toren
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
Release date: 01-08-19
Publisher: Audible Studios

She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A powerful, illuminating novel about Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich’s plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband, Friedrich Mandl, and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband’s castle.

She lands in Hollywood, where she becomes Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But Hedy is keeping a secret even more shocking than her Jewish heritage: she is a scientist. She has an idea that might help the country and that might ease her guilt for escaping alone — if anyone will listen to her. A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece.

Note - Hedy Lamarr is not the only performer with an alternate little known life. Ventriloquist/actor Paul Winchell (voice of many Disney characters) among his inventions were several medical devices. He invented an artificial heart with the assistance of Dr. Henry Heimlich, yes, that Heimlich. The paten was later donated to the University of Utah.