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One of the cardinal sins of dreamstopping is pigeonholing: putting ourselves in a limited space and failing to see our other possibilities. Of course, if you were going to be pigeonholed, there are worse spaces to be boxed into than Hollywood movie star and sex symbol. That’s the space Hedy Lamarr occupied in the 1930s and 40s.

Lamarr was a stunning dark-haired Austrian-born actress who later became an American citizen. She captivated directors as a 19-year-old in the 1933 Czech film Ecstasy, and within a decade was capturing plum roles opposite Hollywood’s top leading men. Billed as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” she even wound up playing the ultimate Biblical seductress in director Cecil B. DeMille’s lavish 1949 production Samson and Delilah.

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