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"Any girl can be glamorous,鈥� she famously said. 鈥淎ll you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

Taking heed of her own aphorisms, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr wanted a bigger impact on the world. And so during World War II, she invented a communication device to help fight the Nazis. At the time, it was used to guide torpedoes but eventually, it would lead to the development of Wi-fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Honored in a Google doodle Monday, Lamarr wasn鈥檛 a typical Hollywood actress. As highlighted in the brief Google video, she juggled her fame as an exotic on-screen seductress with late nights of scientific research.

"She was really curious and had an active intellect and she was always trying to learn," Jennifer Hom of Google, who helped create the doodle, told CNN. "I like to think of her as superhero figure where you have a daytime personality and a nighttime personality."

Born in Austria as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Lamarr came to Hollywood in the late 1930s and gained broad recognition in the 1940s for her roles as a femme fatale. She played opposite Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and Spencer Tracey.

She was called 鈥渢he most beautiful woman in film,鈥� but to her, this was boring. As portrayed in the doodle, in her spare time, she played around with mechanics and even had a room in her house dedicated to invention.

So, she teamed up with her neighbor and composer George Antheil to create a frequency hopping system that prevented US enemies from detecting radio messages. For their contribution in wireless technology, Lamarr and Antheil were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

Here's how the National Inventors Hall of Fame describes their selection:

"She's just so cool," Ms. Hom of Google said. "She was very complicated and very accomplished at the same time."

Lamarr died in 2000. She would鈥檝e been 101 years old Monday.