Almost everyone in the world wants to be born beautiful, and there is an actress in the United States who has a near-perfect appearance, and even Vivien Leigh, who plays the heroine of "Gone with the Wind", is excited because she is said to look like her. Such a unique beauty was competed for by the major directors at that time, not because of how good the acting skills were, but as long as she stopped there, just as a "vase", it would have a high box office. She was also the first actress to appear fully naked at the time, but her beauty often makes people forget her other identity: a scientist. Many people say that she is a scientist who is delayed by beauty, and she is the mother of wifi - Heidi Rama. And how could she, a star, invent such an influential thing as wifi to this day? What kind of legendary life did she have?
Miss Qianjin Heidi Rama
Heidi Rama, whose original name was Hideaway Eva Maria Kissler, was born in 1914 to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, and became a U.S. citizen in 1953.
Heidi grew up with a privileged life, her father was a banker, her mother was a pianist, and such a family also gave Heidi a good education and allowed her to live a carefree life. Because she was an only child, her parents gave her all her love. Maybe she was too pampered, so she developed a straightforward and casual personality.
Because of her parents and family, she began to learn dance and piano from an early age, and at the age of seven she could perform ballet and piano music. Presumably inheriting the wisdom of the Jewish people, her academic performance was also outstanding, especially in mathematics and other science subjects, which laid a good foundation for her future success.
She also likes to do it, likes to explore, and in the living room of Heidi's house, there is a place dedicated to her "inventing" and "discovering", which has a lot of drawing tools and some parts. When she was 4 years old, she dismantled the watch her father had given her, because she was curious about why the gold watch would turn in circles. The music box at home was also disassembled and disassembled by her.
Heidi was born beautiful from an early age, as if she had come out of a painting. When she was 12 years old, she won the vienna beauty pageant.
Heidi has always been different, she also studied communication, which at that time, almost no girls studied this major, as a girl, she also became a "national treasure" in the class. If she continues to develop step by step, her status as a bully will put her on the road to success. However, when she was 16 years old, she suddenly wanted to transfer to acting. Naturally, her parents resolutely disagreed, but she resolutely chose the acting profession despite their objections.
Heidi after that shocked everyone, and this is part of her legendary life.
The "vase" goddess does as she pleases
In 1930, at the age of 16, she went to Berlin, Germany, to study acting. Soon, she starred in "Money on the Street", although it was only a role of running dragons, but she also got more opportunities with her beauty.
In 1932, at the age of 18, Heidi was invited to star as the heroine of "The Haunted". In this film, the director asked her to make some intoxicated expressions, which she did not understand at the time, but when these shots were edited together, she inexplicably became the first actress in the world to use expressions to show hot scenes.
However, it is also because of this film that although she has become a topic of conversation, the condemnation she has received is also overwhelming, and it has also become a shame for the family and even Austria.
"Enchanted" is an art film, although the producers will push this film abroad, but there is only one requirement, that is, hope that Heidi, as the heroine, can appear naked and dedicate herself to art. Even though it's 2022, there aren't many actresses who have managed to do this, let alone 1932, when there was no precedent for that time!
But Heidi was never an ordinary girl, she was bold and different, and she became the world's first fully naked actress. In the film, she has many dew points, beautiful figure, and style, which has attracted her a lot of attention, but at the same time, some countries have listed this as a banned film.
In the face of public criticism and family incomprehension, she commented: I hate all traditions, even art.
Although many people reprimanded her, I have to admit that this film made her famous, and many people were successfully attracted to her. Among them was her first husband: the Austrian arms tycoon and Fritz Mandel, Austria's third-richest man.
They were 14 years apart, but Mandel was excellent. They met at a dance in 1934, and Mandel was even more fascinated when he met his idol.
Three months later, the two were married.
But after getting married, perhaps possessive and controlling, Mandel did not allow her to appear in the film again, or even to go to the street. Not only that, but he also spent a lot of money to buy out all the copies of the "Haunted" film and then destroy them.
Although Mandel was also Jewish, he supported the Nazis, and they were still working on wireless communication technology, but Mandel also let Heidi observe and even record. This was of greater help to her later research.
Heidi, however, often clashed with Mandel because of the Nazis, and when he imprisoned her freedom, he hired several maids to watch over her in the mansion, turning her into a "caged bird". In 1937, she finally couldn't stand it, so she used hypnotic drugs to confuse him and the maids, then jumped straight from the second floor herself, and immediately rushed to the train station, took the train to Paris, and stayed away from the marriage. This plot, which does not appear in the film, is played out in her.
It was also the year that she entered Hollywood and changed her name to Heidi Rama. However, when she first came to Hollywood, she was known as a second-rate actor without acting skills, did not know English, but she was beautiful, and she could only act as a "vase".
But it is precisely because she is so beautiful, although the role of the "vase" is played, but let many viewers remember her, the limelight is the heroine, she is also known as "the most beautiful woman in the world", major directors are scrambling to invite her to star in their own movies, she is also known as "Hollywood's first vase".
In 1938, Heidi starred as the heroine of "Cape Wanderer", which also received 4 Oscar nominations.
After that, Heidi became a hot female star in Hollywood, and even if there was a lot of criticism, she could not hide her light. She once became the dream lover of men, women also envied her, actresses began to imitate her, separated her hair from the middle, blackened, permed, even Vivien Leigh changed to Heidi's hairstyle, like a "Heidi wind".
However, her beauty also often makes people ignore her acting skills, and in the eyes of almost all people, she is only a big beauty, not a powerful actor, which makes her very distressed.
And Heidi's marriage is not satisfactory, since leaving Mandel, she has had five marriages in the years since, including actors, oil merchants, writers, lawyers, band conductors, can be said to be talented people, but they are like Mandel and the public, only see her beauty, not her talent. After they got her, they no longer cherished her, and they no longer managed their feelings well, as if they regarded her as a plaything.
Maybe she was disappointed in the film industry, maybe the actor was no longer challenging, maybe she didn't want to be a "vase" anymore, she wanted others to see her talent, so she went to other fields, which also made her an inventor.
"The Mother of Wifi"
As early as 1938, the Nazis officially entered Austria, which made the anti-Nazi Heidi even more bitter. Because of the communication technology she learned about from her first husband, Mandel, she came to the United States and brought it with her.
In 1939, the second world war broke out, and some countries began to study torpedo technology. This requires the use of wireless signals to control the torpedo launch and improve its accuracy. But what is the principle of radio? This puzzled them.
At this time, Heidi also met the person who changed her destiny, Antel.
Antel enjoys playing the piano and composing music, which is the same as Heidi's hobby. Originally, the two people sometimes talked about the piano and art, but one day, they didn't know who mentioned wireless signals first, so they found another common hobby - the study of wireless signal channels.
In the face of fascism, they all wanted to contribute.
Although Heidi is often involved in the acting world, she has a bright brain since she was a child and has studied communications. And when she was acting, she also met a big person who was also an aircraft designer, actor and director, Howard Hughes.
Howard wanted to make one of the fastest airplanes in the world, but there was no way to improve, so he told Heidi about it and allowed her to enter the aircraft workshop.
Heidi, who possessed the high wisdom of the Jews, finally found the problem, the aircraft at that time were all square wings, but if they were designed in the shape of wings, wouldn't it reduce air resistance? She also studied the world's fastest birds and fish and painted them for him. This made Howard suddenly enlightened.
Back to the point, Heidi and Antel began research to invent a system to control the operation of torpedoes.
At one time, two people took inspiration from the piano. Each of them sat in front of a piano, and Heidi asked him to play the piano, and then she played along. They were all typing on the piano keyboard, but nothing had changed. If this is the case with pianos, can the signal also jump in different frequencies?
With this inspiration, they began to design an aircraft navigation system and conceived a pair of paper rolls, placed in the aircraft and torpedoes, to specify the order of change frequencies.
In 1941, the two invented the frequency hopping technology and applied for a patent for the design of the "frequency jump" device.
In 1942, Heidi, who had obtained a patent, gave it to the U.S. military, hoping that it could be used in the anti-fascist war. However, the military heard her mention that the piano installation was installed in a torpedo, and her beauty was so attractive, so it did not care about the invention, and the military also ridiculed her for relying on this beautiful face to help the government sell war bonds, rather than any invention. As for this invention, it was sealed by the government because it involved core secrets of communications.
It was not until 1997 that the invention was recognized. This system is regarded as the basis of CDMA and Bluetooth technology, and Heidi is also known as the "mother of wifi".
In the face of military irony, Heidi did use her beauty to sell war bonds for the United States. During the tour, she also used the method of "auctioning Heidi's kiss" to set a record for raising $25 million for a tour, which is equivalent to $350 million in the United States in 2016.
Heidi used her own actions to prove her dislike of Nazism and war, and also completed the change in attitude towards her. Beauty is temporary, but technology is permanent.
However, in her later years, Heidi had a miserable life. Because of so many failed marriages, her mental condition was not very good, and she was immersed in plastic surgery, but the technology at that time was not yet developed, and the operation was not successful.
She used drugs to numb herself, and in 2000, at the age of 86, she passed away, and eventually the police found her body in her home. The TV at home was still on, and she died quietly in her dream.
Heidi Lamar's life is controversial, but her life is such a legend, and in 2014, she was also inducted into the American Inventors Hall of Fame.
Her lawyer once said that for me, she has always been the most beautiful movie star, she always walks with her head held high, she is very beautiful, even in her old age, so beautiful.