Sure, at first glance, what more could a dark-haired Austrian beauty want than international fame, untold wealth, and half a dozen husbands, to say nothing of God knows how many lovers and admirerers? She had to act as a young woman providing care for a much older man.
Botched nose jobs are almost impossible to rectify.
She adopted a boy named James in 1939 while being married to her second husband — Gene Markey.
In her autobiography Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr described Mandl as an extremely controlling husband who strongly objected to her simulated orgasm scene in Ecstasy, and prevented her from pursuing her acting career.
In 2014, Lamarr was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
The expressions were those of agony—not ecstasy at all.