01933cam a2200349 i 4500 489029824 TxAuBib 20210224120000.0 180306s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018009020 9781492666868 $25.99 1492666866 $25.99 9781492666899 pbk. $16.99 1492666890 pbk. $16.99 TxAuBib rda Benedict, Marie. The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019] 254 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication. 20210224. Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 Fiction. World war, 1939-1945 Fiction. Women scientists Fiction. Jewish women Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. CLMPL