Some of her early inventions included an improved stoplight and a tablet that dissolves in water to create a fizzy drink (Lamarr called this one a failure). In addition to her huge success as a film actress, Hedy worked in her spare time as an inventor. Some of her notable works are Boomtown, Tortilla Flat, and White Cargo, among many others. She went on to work in several films, being typecast as the glamorous seductress. Mayer began promoting her as “the world’s most beautiful woman” and she was quickly cast in Algiers. Mayer, the head of MGM, in London and he brought her to Hollywood. This was highly controversial at the time, and while the film had gained artistic notoriety, it was banned in America and Germany. She made her start with several film roles in Europe, including the infamous film Ecstasy, which featured an 18 year old Hedy simulating an orgasm. Hedy Lamarr was born in Austria in 1914 and was known as an American film actress and inventor. Hedy Lamarr is the inspiration behind our Hedy For all of these reasons and so many more, we light a candle in her honor. Lena Horne was not only an incredible talent, she was a trailblazer, an activist and an inspiration, and did all of this in the face of adversity. She was awarded the Spingarn Medal, an award given for outstanding achievement by an African American, by the NAACP in 1983. She also worked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC and the Nation Council of Negro Women.
Upon seeing that the black soldiers were seated behind German POWs she promptly walked off the stage and performed only to the black soldiers with the German POWs behind her. When entertaining the troops during WWII, she refused to perform for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen. Lena was a long time activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She was also the first African-American elected to serve on the Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors. She was the first black woman to be nominated for the Tony Award for “Best Actress in a Musical” for her part in Jamaica. She established herself as a premier nightclub performer, Broadway star and appeared in many television specials. Lena was discouraged by Hollywood’s overt racism and focused on her jazz singing career. MGM executives wanted Gardner to sing over Horne’s recordings in the film, which offended both Horne and Gardner. Horne lost the role of Julie LaVerne in the 1951 version of Show Boat to Ava Gardner, a personal friend of hers, due to a ban on interracial relationships in films. She was never featured in a leading role and her scenes were shot so that they could be cut when they were shown in the South, since most theaters in the South wouldn’t show films that cast black actors in any roles that weren’t subservient to white actors. Soon after signed with MGM and appeared in such films as Panama Hattie and Adelaide Hall. At 21, she starred in her first film role, The Duke is Tops. When she was 16, she joined the chorus line at Harlem’s Cotton Club, a whites-only establishment that featured black performers. Lena was a black actress, singer, dancer and civil rights activist, born in 1917 in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Lena Horne is the inspiration behind our Lena We've always been very inspired by women in history and pop culture and aesthetically, the candles have a very Old Hollywood glam vibe to them, especially with the gold rim, so it was sort of a no brainer to name them after classic Hollywood actresses. It became our plan pretty early on to name all of our candles after women. We began referring to them as "she" and saying things like "omg she smells like a cozy day in bed!" They really started to have personalities to us. We spent a year and a half developing the fragrances for the first seven candles of the Starlet Collection. For the work these women have done to lay the path for us to walk, we like to light a candle in their honor. More rarely would we even find ourselves represented on screen. Growing up as queer women, we often found ourselves looking to these icons for comfort and strength. Bijou Candles take their names from women from history and pop culture who inspire us.
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