Remembering Hedy Lamarr, who passed away on this day, 26 years ago “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” Hedy Lamarr This remark was a form of protest. Lamarr, long reduced by Hollywood to a silent image of beauty, spoke against a system where glamour meant immobility and obedience, where intelligence was treated as a flaw rather than an asset. Beyond her screen presence, she was a co-inventor of frequency-hopping technology, a foundation for modern wire