On this day, August 11, 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent.

[Jeebo]

1. She was Delilah to Victor Mature's Samson.

I love that movie, I've seen it quite a few times. I worked 45 years for a newspaper (retired in 2015) and I remember when she died, the Associated Press story that came across the news desk that night said that most of her neighbors in that middle-class Orlando suburb she had been living in were not aware that the old lady living in that house had been a glamorous movie star of the 1930s and 1940s. Some of these old-time celebs eventually retreat into anonymity and obscurity.

-- Ron