One Artist’s Concept of an Antheil Production
Here’s some explanatory background from Robert R. Reilly’s“Bad Boy Made Good: George Antheil” Antheil as a child lived across the street from the New Jersey State Penitentiary in Trenton. A pair of old maids moved into the house next door and began pounding away on...
Airplane Sonata
True to its name, your Airplane Sonata consisted of an arrangement of sixteen player pianos, electric bells, and a spinning airplane prop. Learn the Back Story Learn...
Ballet Sensation
A perfect collaborator, Antheil was well versed in synchronization techniques. He had created such sensation-causing compositions as Ballet Mécanique. “I consider my ‘Ballet Mécanique’ a mad youthful prank!” Learn the Back Story Learn...
Dignifying Science
In Dignifying Science, a graphic novella devoted to female inventors, Jim Ottaviani further recreates the collaboration between the two of you: A perfect collaborator, Antheil was well versed in synchronization techniques. He had created such sensation-causing...Bad Boy of Music
In his The Bad Boy of Music, the avant-garde composer George Antheil recounts meeting you in 1940. At a party hosted by Mitzi Gaynor, while noodling at the piano, Antheil and you stumbled on this new technology… Learn the Back Story Learn...
Human Torch Nazi
…and you were more than ready to turn that knowledge against the Nazis! Learn the Back Story Learn...
A spy who had already carried out your mission
In the late 1930’s, you fled to America, escaping the clutches of your husband, Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer for the Nazis who held you under virtual house arrest. Jealous and possessive, he took you to all his conferences on weapons systems. Little did he...
Press Kit Generator
The Press Kit Generator that transmits elements of your story to the general public often just repeats the tale of the brainy starlet who was unrecognized until now as the inventor of spread spectrum communication. It is a smooth, linear narrative that can provide a...
Bombarded
Adrienne Rich’s predicament (and strength) mirrors your own… I am bombarded yet I stand. I have been standing all my life in the direct path of a battery of signals the most accurately transmitted most untranslatable language in the universe…...
A Codemaker, Codebreaker War
Even the comics of the day replicated coded formats… The Submariner is captured by German spies, under suspicion of being a spy himself. . . Will he be rescued in time, before he’s found out? Or killed before he can convey the secret of their coding...
Hedy/Dickinson Connector
Hedy Lamarr and Emily Dickinson: Two Women Who Never Had Full Control of their Own Lives’ Courses… Emily Dickinson, so unacknowledged in her own life time,writes about being a female poet not fully in controlof her own life and craft. Her...
Patent Falsehoods
From the ghostwriters’ grand theft auto biography to Corel’s theft of your image to Warhol’s camp version of your life, you have had to endure all sorts of “infringements”. . . Reclaiming… Corel’s lawyers trotted out a number...
Secrecy (The L’Imitation Game)
How secret was the Secret Communication System? Why so little mention of it by Hedy for so long? Was it only to preserve her Hollywood image? Did the government confiscate it, as some argue, given that she was classified as an alien? The following exchanges from The...
Candy Darling
Caption: AFTER MANY ILLEGAL HORMONE TREATMENTS, CANDY DARLING DIES OF CANCER IN 1975. (Harron 152) She was featured prominently in I Shot Andy Warhol. The opening of Ecstasy alludes to Wilson’s Forever Feminine. With his strong ties to hormone producers, Dr. Wilson...
Career Counseling
In Dishonored Lady, after a failed suicide attempt, you end up on a psychiatrist’s couch. He advises you to leave your unsatisfying role as a high-powered fashion editor and to pursue your love of painting. Not terribly bad advice, but you still end up playing second...
Griffin Lamarr Interview
Featured on the Merv Griffin Show, you finally had the chance to clear the air about Ecstasy and the infamous swimming scene: Griffin [on arriving in America amid the Ecstasy buzz]: “You really came over here with a bang.” Well, I didn’t know they...
PITCHING THE PITUITARY
Antheil, a self-proclaimed expert on glandular “science,” brags about his acumen: “If the lady offers you some of her history, she will be telling you with every breath to exactly what glandular type she belongs.” “Hedy Wants You to Pitch Her...
GLAND TYPECASTING
Gland Kit Line-Up Number One Far away a piece of gaily printed silk will be gradually taking the form of a girl. . . Postpituitary ‘the maternal instinct” Here comes Number 2. She’s really handsome. Heavy bushy hair. Sporty mannish hair. Aggressive walk. Will...
Secret Communication System
“The release of the patent could not have been more timely. Pearl Harbour was still in everyone’s mind and, just two days before the patent grant, America suffered the worst defeat in the entire history of the Navy” (Walters 4). PATENT”…it has been very...
