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Just bumbled upon this list. Some of this stuff I'd never heard of, particularly Jerry Lewis' accomplishments. He's come off like an arrogant asshole on occasions, so it was interesting to get a counter to that.
The style is a little 'gossip-column-y' for my taste, but oh well. Highlights:
The style is a little 'gossip-column-y' for my taste, but oh well. Highlights:
RandomVintageHedy Lamarr was a genius inventor who fled Nazi Germany & invented frequency bandwidth hopping, which is the technology that makes the WiFi you are using possible as well as all missile guidance systems in the military.
Jerry Lewis invented technical innovations such as video playback, which is used on sets mostly for dailies, taught university film making & meticulously crafted his comedy in synced time to all sound events, often working with musicians to compose scores that brought out timing that worked comedically.
Leonard Nimoy was responsible for securing rights for every entertainer’s personal legal rights of their own physical likeness, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Jackie Coogan, known as Uncle Fester of the Addams Family, was responsible for securing the rights of child entertainers & protection from financial exploitation, especially from their own parents. His ex-wife was the one & only Betty Grable.
Each one of these very ordinary people had some very extraordinary aspects to their lives that were highly interesting & well worth researching. Either way, these people affect our lives today very profoundly- but none more than Hedy.
Many of these legends built the Hollywood system as it is presently & in many cases saved it singlehandedly, such as the founder of Universal Carl Laemmle & Charlie Chaplin (insisted on relocating film making from the insane violent Thomas Edison in New Jersey to California away from his brutal goons that regularly smashed up any studio that dared operate outside of the Edison monopoly) who co-founded United Artists for independent filmmakers & The Academy of Motion Pictures. Without Chaplin & his partners, there would be NO Hollywood at all or film making as it is presently known.