01980cam a2200349 i 4500 1147497973 TxAuBib 20240217120000.0 190829s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018009020 9781492666899 1492666890 (OCoLC)1114337198 TxAuBib rda Benedict, Marie, author. The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019] 315 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication. 20240217. Antheil, George, 1900-1959 Fiction. Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 Fiction. Women inventors Fiction. Spread spectrum communications Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. WOMEN SCIENTISTS FICTION. JEWISH WOMEN FICTION. Austria History 1918-1938 Fiction.