Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner comes from South Carolina. MGM found her accent hard to understand but they signed her anyway. Her big break came when she starred in The Killers. She enjoyed five decades in Hollywood until her smoking habit caught up with her. Sadly, she died of pneumonia in 1990.
Ava Gardner
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Hedy Lamarr
Good luck looking for a more fascinating lady than Hedy Lamarr. She was the first woman to depict the female orgasm onscreen, but she also worked on a technique used to fix radio signal jamming during WW2. She even got “frequency hopping” patented. It has been used in civilian and military devices.
Hedy Lamarr
