Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner had such a strong South Carolinian accent that MGM found her incomprehensible. Nonetheless, she kept working and struck gold when she appeared in The Killers. She enjoyed half a century in the industry until she died of pneumonia in 1990.
Ava Gardner
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Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr is not only iconic for being the first person to depict female orgasm on film, but she also worked on “frequency hopping”. This was a technique used to solve radio signal jamming to intervene with submarine-controlled torpedo. She got it patented, and it is now used by the military as well.
Hedy Lamarr
