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  • What more could Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler have done for us if she had been given a good education and the encouragement and support to pursue her supposedly harebrained, unwomanly ideas?

    Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009

  • Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna in 1913, was the only child of Jewish parents.

    An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

  • Emil Kiesler, a successful banker, was a doting father; her mother, Trude, a former concert pianist, was less indulgent, "concerned that such a pretty, vivacious child would grow up spoiled unless she heard criticism as well as compliments," Mr. Rhodes writes.

    An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

  • You know, Hedwig Kiesler -- better known by her stage name: Hedy Lamarr

    Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009

  • The handful of surviving postcards contain no mention of postwar deprivations as he offers Méraud Guinness Guevara witty accounts of the installation of André Breton's surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1947, designed by Marcel Duchamp and Frederick Kiesler, and thanks for her hospitality in Provence.

    Lucian Freud obituary 2011

  • On the boat to America, Hedy was approached by an agent for MGM who offered her a movie deal, and persuaded her to change her name from Hedwig (or "Hedy") Kiesler to Hedy Lamarr after famous Hollywood silent film starlet Barbara LaMarr.

    Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009

  • The obvious explanation is that Kiesler and Antheil were outsiders.

    bassleri froglet pictures 2009

  • The obvious explanation is that Kiesler and Antheil were outsiders.

    Patent Number 2,292,387 2009

  • PPS: The guy on the left in the cowboy hat is my maternal grandfather, Rudy Kiesler.

    Scripting News for 4/15/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • The stuffing has frankfurters in it, a family tradition started (as far as I know) by my German grandmother, Lucy Schmidt Kiesler.

    Scripting News for 11/23/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

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