Editing Hedy Lamarr (section)

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[[File:Hedy Lamarr Ziegfeld Girl.jpg|thumb|Studio publicity still of Lamarr for the film ''[[Ziegfeld Girl (film)|Ziegfeld Girl]]'' (1941)]]
Lamarr played a number of stage roles, including a starring one in ''Sissy'', a play about [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]] produced in Vienna. It won accolades from critics. Admirers sent roses to her [[dressing room]] and tried to get backstage to meet her. She sent most of them away, including a man who was more insistent, [[Friedrich Mandl]].<ref name=Liberty/> He became obsessed with getting to know her.<ref name=Lemelson>[http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes "A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419103621/http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes |date=April 19, 2017 }}, Lemelson Center, November 12, 2015.</ref>

Mandl was an Austrian military arms merchant<ref name=LaTimes>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/11/hedy-lamarr-inventor-hedy-lamarr-sex-symbol.html|title=Hedy Lamarr: Inventor of more than the 1st theatrical-film orgasm|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 28, 2010|access-date=July 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117071932/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/11/hedy-lamarr-inventor-hedy-lamarr-sex-symbol.html|archive-date=January 17, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> and munitions manufacturer who was reputedly the third-richest man in Austria. She fell for his charming and fascinating personality, partly due to his immense financial wealth.<ref name=doc/> Her parents, both of [[Jewish descent]], did not approve due to Mandl's ties to Italian fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] and, later, German Führer [[Adolf Hitler]], but they could not stop the headstrong Lamarr.<ref name=Liberty/>

On August 10, 1933, Lamarr married Mandl at the [[Karlskirche]]. She was 18 years old and he was 33. In her autobiography, ''[[Ecstasy and Me]]'', she described Mandl as an extremely controlling husband who strongly objected to her simulated orgasm scene in ''Ecstasy'' and prevented her from pursuing her acting career. She claimed she was kept a virtual prisoner in their castle home, {{ill|Schloss Schwarzenau|de|Schloss_Schwarzenau_(Waldviertel)}}.<ref name=doc/>
[[File:Hedy Lamarr in The Heavenly Body 1944.jpg|thumb|Hedy Lamarr, 1944]]
Mandl had close social and business ties to the Italian government, selling munitions to the country,<ref name="shearer"/> and had ties to the [[Nazi]] regime of Germany as well, even though his own father was Jewish, as was Hedy's. Lamarr wrote that the dictators of both countries attended lavish parties at the Mandl home. Lamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings, where he conferred with scientists and other professionals involved in military technology. These conferences were her introduction to the field of applied science and nurtured her latent talent in science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/happy-100th-birthday-hedy-lamarr-movie-star-and-wi-fi-inventor|title=Happy 100th birthday, Hedy Lamarr, movie star who paved way for Wi-Fi|publisher=CNET|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511072950/http://www.cnet.com/news/happy-100th-birthday-hedy-lamarr-movie-star-and-wi-fi-inventor/|archive-date=May 11, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lamarr's marriage to Mandl eventually became unbearable and she decided to separate herself from both her husband and country in 1937. In her [[autobiography]], she wrote that she disguised herself as her maid and fled to [[Paris]], but according to other accounts she persuaded Mandl to let her wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterward.<ref name="friedrich1997">{{cite book|title=City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s|publisher=University of California Press|author=Friedrich, Otto|year=1997|edition=reprint|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles|pages=12–13|isbn=0-520-20949-4}}</ref> She wrote about her marriage:

{{blockquote|I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife. ... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage. ... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own.{{sfn|Rhodes|2012|pp=28-29}}}}