The only woman in the room
By: Marie Benedict
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Naperville, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781492666868
Subjects: Jewish women; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Women scientists
Description: Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands in Hollywood, where she becomes Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But Hedy is keeping a secret even more shocking than her Jewish heritage: she is a scientist. She has an idea that might help the country and that might ease her guilt for escaping alone -- if anyone will listen to her.