Hedy Lemarr, born Hedwig Eva Marie Kiesler on November 9, 1914, in Austria to Emil and Gertrude Kiesler and raised in the Jewish faith, came to the U.S. in 1938 and became a naturalized citizen in 1953. A famed actress, she starred in over two dozen movies, including Cecil B. DeMille's "Samson and Delilah." In 1942, she and George Antheil received U.S. patent number No. 2,292,387 for the "Secret Communication System," designed for the Allied Powers to use against Nazi Germany during World War II by allowing "frequency jumping" of radio waves in torpedo guidance systems. This innovation later helped make Wi-Fi and cellular phone technology possible. Lemarr died on January 19, 2000, at her home on Wesson Drive in the Orange Grove Park neighborhood, and she and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2014.