''Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman'' is the alleged tell-all style

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of Austrian-born actress and inventor

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by Leo Guild and Cy Rice and first published in 1966. The book spent four weeks at #1 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list in 1966. In 1966 Lamarr's lawsuit to overturn the book was refused by a Los Angeles judge. When the book was published, she filed for $21 million in damages. Lamarr condemned the book's contents as "fictional, false, vulgar, scandalous, libelous and obscene". During a 1969 appearance on ''

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'', she responded to a comment from host

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regarding ''Ecstasy and Me'' by stating "Don't talk about that, that's not my book" and mentioned writing a book of her own called ''Hedy''. In a 1970 interview with ''

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'', Lamarr noted that her material was "misused and distorted" and that she did not receive any funds from the book. When the book was published, it was reviewed in ''

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'' by Larry L. King, where King noted "If there is a sexual experience Miss Lamarr has not partaken of, it belongs in the future tense".

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