Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman—Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting appearance and glamorous life stood in the way of her begin given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication. An Austrian Jewish emigrant who invented a covert communication system to try to help defeat the Nazis, Lamarr was ignored and told to sell kisses for war bonds instead. Family, friends and colleagues, including Mel Brooks and the late Robert Osborne, share their personal memories of Lamarr, explaining the atmosphere that created the disconnect between her brilliance and her beauty. It was only toward the very end of her life that tech pioneers discovered that it was her concept that is now used as the basis for secure WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth technologies.