Hedy Lamarr was unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s and '40s.
Lamarr, who would have been 101 on Monday , is being remembered with an animated Google Doodle that pays tribute to her career, both as an actress and as the co-inventor of a mechanical spectrum hopping scheme that was intended to help the Allies create a secret World War II communication system between submarines and the torpedoes they were firing.
The invention she is now best known for, though, the frequency hopping system, was never put into use during World War II and was only later discovered by private companies looking for frequency hopping techniques.
Google's Doodle, which was created by Jennifer Hom, manages to weave in Lamarr's complicated tale of stardom and invention, with a nod to the sensibilities of that bygone movie era.
