Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

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241 Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Zyda, 1973. 2. Schallert, 1950. 3. Gabor, 1992, 67. 4. Sanders, 1992, 102–3. 5. Basinger, 1993, 166. 6. Barthes, 1993, 57. 7. Negra, 2001, 103–35. 8. Horak, 2001, 34, 37. 1: A CHILDHOOD IN DÖBLING 1. Creditanstalt Bankverien was the largest of the Austrian banking houses; the bank was to fall on hard times in the 1920s as a result of the postwar economic depression. 2. Rogin, 1996, 66. 3. For more on the Film Guild Cinema, see Guzman, 2005. 4. Lania, 1942, 28. 5. Joseph, “Hedy’s Here!” 6. Kiesler, “Hedl in Hollywood.” 7. Ibid. 8. Joseph, “Hedy’s Here!” 9. Proctor, “Play Truth or Consequences with Hedy Lamarr.” 10. “Hedy Lamarr Writes on the Curse of Beauty,” 1951. 11. Dubini and Obermaier, 2006. 12. Lamarr, 1967. 242 Notes to pages 14–24 13. Kiesler, “Hedl in Hollywood.” 14. Ibid. 15. Lamarr, 1941. 16. Young, 1978, 13. 2: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD 1. Lamarr told this to a reporter in a 1937 interview. Professor Arndt was almost certainly the actor, Ernst Arndt (born in Germany in 1861), who was active in film and theater in Vienna during these years. He took a part in Leise Flehen Meine Lieder directed by Willi Forst, in 1933 (see Chapter Four). Arndt died in Treblinka extermination camp, probably in 1942 (“Hedy Kiesler soll Jean-Harlow-Rollen übernehmen,” 1937, 2). 2. Lamarr, 1967, 7. 3. Elsaesser, 2000, 332. 4. The film opened in Berlin a month later on 21 April. 5. “Großer Heiterkeitserfolg,” 1931; “Sturm im Wasserglass,” 1931, 11. 6. “Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau,” 1931. 7. Die Bühne, March 1931, 6. 8. Reinhardt, 1979. Fans of Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) will remember that it was in the Theater in der Josefstadt that Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) goes backstage to meet Harry Lime’s (Orson Welles) girl, Anna (Alida Valli). 9. “Eine junge Wienerin debutiert bei Reinhardt,” 1931, 5. 10. Weller, 1939. 11. Antel, 2001, 14–15; Sinclair, 1987, 21; Dubini and Obermaier, 2006. 12. Friedrich, 1974, 7–8. 13. Ibid. 14. Lania, 1942, 243. 15. Ibid. 16. Adler 1980, 40. 17. Lania, 1942, 244. 18. Ibid. 19. Lichtbildbühne, 1931. 20. Kinematograph, 4 December 1931. 21. “Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.,” 1931. 22. Film Kurier, 24 February 1932. Notes to pages 25–37 243 23. Variety, 22 December 1931, 21. 24. Lania, 1942, 244. 25. “Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.,” 1932. 26. Ibid., 6. 27. Kinematograph, 6 February 1932. 28. Lichtbildbühne, 5 February 1932. 29. Variety, 6 February 1932. 30. Kinematograph, 6 February 1932. 31. Der Film, 6 February 1932. 32. “Man Braucht Kein Geld,” 1932. 33. “Wir brauchen kein Geld,” 1931, 6. 3: ECSTASY 1. For a detailed analysis of Machaty’s career, see Cargnelli, 2005. 2. “Extase in Schönbrunn,” 1932, 10. 3. Ibid. 4. Garncarz, 2001. 5. Miller, 1945, 65, 66–67, 70, 75. 6. Lamarr, 1967, 21. 7. Ibid., 22. 8. Dubini and Obermaier, 2006. 9. Jan Stallich quoted in Horak, 2001, 32. 10. Dubini and Obermaier, 2006. 11. Ibid., 23. 12. “Extase in Schönbrunn,” 1932, 10. 13. “Filmarbeit in Schönbrunn,” 1932, 12. 14. “Hedi [sic] Kiesler will nicht nackt austreten,” 1933, 6. 15. Jung, 2001, 95. 16. Ross, 2005, 20. 17. Loacker, 2001, 36; Garncarz, 2001, 161. 18. “Krawalle in Ufa-Tonkino,” 1933, 12; Rollet, 1933, 7; Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , 21 February 1933, 5; “Filmschund ‘Ekstase,’” 1933, 12. 19. “Krawalle in Ufa-Tonkino,” 1933, 12. 20. Rollet, 1933, 7. 21. Jung, 2001, 84–93. 22. Harmon, 1937. 23. Hediger, 2005. 24. National Legion of Decency, 1936. 25. Stein, 1936, 15. 26. Hollywood Spectator, 1 August 1936, 6. 27. Breen, 1937. 28. Cummins, 1937. 29. Harmon, 1937. 30. Herczif may be a misspelling of Geza Herczeg’s name in the PCA files— Herczeg was a Reinhardt alumnus of Hungarian-German origin who enjoyed a successful career in exile in Hollywood; my thanks to Chris Horak for alerting me to this. 31. White and deBra, 1950. 32. Breen, 1937. 33. Cargnelli, 2005, 209–11; Jung, 2001, 84–92. 34. Kael, 1993, 212. 4: FRITZ MANDL 1. “Extase in Schönbrunn,” 1932, 10. 2. von Dassanowsky, 2006. 3. Author interview with Martha Eggerth, 28 April 2009. 4. Ibid. 5. Luise Rainer had been the first choice to replace Paula, but she was working in Berlin (Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 January...