This fact is just one of many that make Lamarr's biography quite unlike that of most film stars. But such superficial recognition does an injustice to the attractive and highly intelligent Lamarr, who made her last film in 1958. Mayer's renaming of his new star was also intended to erase any last traces of the Ecstasy scandal. After all, the film had been banned in America. At Mayer's invitation, Lamarr had come to Hollywood from exile in London.
Any girl can be glamorous.
All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Notable for his unsuccessful attempt to buy up all existing prints of his wife's bare Ecstasy appearance, Mandl was also the first in a long chain of Lamarr divorces. The former banker's daughter later became a regular customer of Nevada's six-week divorce mill in Reno, a trend that ran through husband number six. Ironically, it expired in 1959, the same year George Antheil died. But surely one of the most fascinating chapters in Lamarr's life and career had nothing to do with her film career and everything to do with her brain power.