Yep. Her designs during World War II to create a radio controlled torpedo that couldn't be jammed are the basis for Wi-Fi.

Agreed

Absolutely 💯 my company used her invention in radar work I'll leave it at that it was top secret 😉. Brains and beauty. Something you don't see much of in Hollywood anymore.

And genius

Creative.... But so quick and short. I don't care for the fast in memoriam. Now i have to pause and rewind. It may have not been fancy, but you can read and appreciate their work.

I like it when they put more of the actors' famous or characteristic lines in. They still do that every now and then.

He will always be Matthew Cuthbert to me

So authentic, sometimes you felt like you're easedropping on someone you shouldn't.

The Straight Story -- what a farewell!

Her frequency-hopping technology patent also paved the way for WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

@@grievousangelic *Yes, because the dynamics involved have not changed, only the technology has that enables far more encoding into a signal, such as using light itself as the information-medium

Hedy Lamar should be considered the Queen of Silicone Valley at this point. Without her, modern technology doesn't exist.

@@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex *It all came from her own mind from her experiences with 'lighting people' and 'gaffers' on sets using shutters to make a lighted-room seem to have 'slats of shadows' in it and listening to distant radio stations at night from Europe on her then-expensive home-set with a 'DX' antennae* *Stations from Europe would 'over-lap' each other on occasion and two different signals heard at the same time and it fascinated her!* ________ Hedy knew Chaplin, and Chaplin was friends with Einstein and it's lost to history what was discussed between the 'Beauty' and the 'Genius' in correspondence and in person* ________ *Her idea of 'transmitting an open frequency' and then 'forcing' that frequency into a 'rotating shutter' made it possible to 'over-ride' a single frequency without knowing the specific frequency itself and 'confuse' steering commands to a torpedo that meant long-range firing at a ship from a submarine at some miles distant would no longer be a threat* ___________ *This same process was integrated by the U.S Navy into the ability of a 'built-in signal sensor' into cannon-shells fired at aircraft resulting in 'telling the explosive-charge to detonate NOW!' when a signal 'bounced back' from an enemy plane was at the right range for optimum effect* *The actor 'Eddie Albert' helped in the efforts to use 'radio waves' as means to ensure explosives would detonate at the 'right time' for any type of weapon the Navy had and would have received 'Medals' and 'Honors' for his work but it was all 'Ultra Top Secret' at the time* __________ *Einstein himself was 'Officially' a 'commissioned officer/consultant' with the U.S. Navy and very few people know that Albert solved a crisis for the Navy regarding the detonation of torpedoes at the moment of contact...and failing to detonate properly* *Einstein 'solved the riddle' that the finest, most experienced engineers and explosive experts in the World could not find because no one alive could 'examine an issue' the way Albert could* ( *The issue was that a 'primary charge' was detonating a main-charge either too quickly or too slowly and losing the 'water-hammer' effect that was what actually 'split-open' a ships' steel hull as water was 'formed into a column' by the explosive-charge* )

At this point she is more known for being the inventor of the internet than being an actress. Not a bad legacy at the end

I agree in that they should have more actual clips where they're speaking... not necessarily their most famous lines, and not just ones where they say goodbye, but some of their most poignant/effective. 2019's TCM Remembers had this.

agreed

Dont watch em.

And in 2020 we lost not only the last major star of silent film (Diana Serry Cary aka Baby Peggy), but arguably the last two major stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood in Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland. This is why TCM is so vitally important: we need to not only celebrate these legends while they’re still with us, but preserve their legacies after they’re gone.

He died in 1999.

He is also not a movie star. He’s a mediocre TV actor.

Heddy had her dirty little secrets too.

She's mesmerizing in Key Largo and pretty much ever picture she ever made, Truly a gifted actress.

You blithely overlook Mom's Mabley....

​@sclogse1 what?

It seems that all I see of him are things he made when he was old; it's a surprise to see him young.

@@jimodonnelly7762 I agree.

As Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953).

I feel the same way. that's not fair what they did to us. just trying to make more money by raising it up to the next higher tv package.

C Schaeffer Yep!

peace2014... Oh, yes, Hollywood already lost a lot years ago. The caliber of people out there is not even the same. USA truly lost something unique and cultural with the demise of the studio system. Granted, it was not perfect, but it did a far better job at keeping actors disciplined and trying to represent an industry which had far more morals than what it has today.

@@brianoyler4777 Thanks for your reply. I recently heard about the requirements that films must fulfill before they can be considered for an Academy Award. Its woke-ness gone mad. Way beyond what I would have imagined. My instincts were correct. Films today lack imagination and creativity. They're all the same formula. Unwatchable in my opinion.

@@peace-yv4qd Oh, I am sure the requirements for nomination are just overwhelming. The founders of the Academy are probably rolling in their graves. I cannot imagine so many requirements for today's films. Most of them are not so good anyway. It is saddening and maddening all at the same time because the whole idea of Hollywood in 2021 does not have to be the way it is.

I couldn't agree more.

I noticed that as well.

Yes IV seen as far back as 94 they used nirvana as the music

There's now one on KZfaq from 1995, the very first one.

They had them earlier, but I guess no one saved the footage. Not even Ted Turner. I specifically recall TCM Remembers 1986. The song they used was The Alan Parsons Project, "Time Keeps Flowing Like A River." The tribute ended with Cary Grant walking out of the frame. He died that year in November. I will never forget that year, because cried for weeks after watching it. I have yet to find it anywhere again after it's showing in Dec '86 and Jan '87.

And Victor Mature?

He didn't star in films that were considered appropriate for TCM.

I contacted TCM about this through their site a while back. I asked about those two years and why they don't just put ALL the memoriam videos up themselves. The guy who responded basically told me they're not proud of the 2001 video. They left out too many big names. For example, he said Ann Sothern, Dorothy McGuire and Stanley Kramer were excluded. And they know letting the video loose would only lead to criticisms from diehard fans. As such, on the rare occasion when the video pops up, they crack down on it very quickly. Nothing was said about 2002 though.

XXXTheRappaXXX Maybe with some careful editing the missing actors could be added or just show it as it was originally aired and add a foot note explaining the over site.

John Bender I agree with that strategy...I thought the shot of Carrol O'Connor in the 2001 Memoriam video was cinematic magic.

I also just recently contacted TCM to ask why they won't make their past tributes available. I was told that they no longer had rights to the songs featured in the videos and therefore could not legally post them. I then suggested posting the videos either with no music (we can play the songs over the video ourselves) or with music they *can* use, but I got no response to that part of my message. Of course, while expired song licenses explains why they don't have the 2001-2012 videos online anymore, it doesn't explain why they don't make 1998-2000 available since I believe those videos used music that's in the public domain.

That's odd because I could swear I remember both Ann Sothern and Dorothy Maguire in the 2001 video. That was a long time ago and I was still in high school, but I remember seeing a clip of Ann Southern in a memorial tribute where she is walking toward the camera with a sad look on her face and then turns to look behind her. This is not the clip they used in the Oscar tribute. The Academy used a close-up shot of her smiling. And I'm sure there was a clip of Dorothy Maguire looking in a mirror (she was left out of the Oscar tribute, so that's certainly not what I'm thinking of).

It's from the third movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 -- works beautifully in this context too.

Hedy*

You came all the way here to post the most unoriginal "joke" there is.

ProUSAbur... Dorothy Dandridge died like in 1965. This is a tribute to those who passed in 2000....????

ldavidson32251 well things change, get over it 🙄