Books Details
Author : Marie Benedict Pages : 9 pages Publisher : Audible Studios Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B07MHXJNH8 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
Listening Length: 8 hours and 54 minutesShe 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 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
