The following is taken from interviews of jurors on the Sullivan v. O'Connor case in Richard Danzig, The Capability Problem in Contract Law: Further Readings on Well-known Cases, 1978:

The vote on the breach of contract issue was divided.  B. [a juror] sees the judgment on this count as in some respects a credit to the women on the jury.  During breaks in the trial a couple of the older single men had talked about "women they had gone with with who had big noses."  B. thought this was intended to intimidate the women on the mury and perhaps made for an atmosphere less sympathetic to Mrs. Sullivan.  He recall that it was these men who first voted against Sullivan's recovery on the contracts claim.  But the women and most of the men, including B. had no trouble making up his mind.  Six years later he remembered quite vividly that "she was supposed to have a nose like Hedy Lamarr. If he'd never said that there wouldn't have been a breach of contract."  He felt that it was clear that she had not received a "Hedy Lamarr nose."  There was "a definite hump on the bridge of her nose." After some discussion and three or four votes, with a nay changing to an aye on each vote, the jury unanimously agreed that there was a breach of promise.  (22-23)

David R. is a Scottish born, trade school educated, ship welder, who at the time of the trial was in his mid-sixties and working as a bank security guard because a ship welding job was unattainable.  Mr. R. had served in two jury pools before this one, sitting on murder cases, a personal injury case etc.

"The operation was not successful * * *.  You hated to pass on the decision against the doctor for operating, but wanted to give some remuneration to the woman for what she had gone through * * *.  The doctor wasn't negligent by any means.  We wanted to give her compensation for what he'd been through * * *  at the same time we didn't want to testify against the doctor because of negligence.  That wouldn't be fair either.  We wanted to keep his record clean * * *.  He performed the duty, you know.  He looked like a professional man.  (His wife and child were with him in court. * He wasn't too happy to be in court, you could see it in his face.  Rather worried looking.)  To say that he was negligent, that wouldn't have been fair.   There was no evidence to show that he was negligent, but there was evidence to show he didn't give her a Hedy Lamarr nose.  You could see that.

How did he know that the doctor had promised to give her a Hedi [sic.] Lamarr nose?   "We took her [Sullivan's] word."  Why?  "Well, after the operation she was pretty sick" (24-25)

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Hedy Lamarr, nee Hedwig Eva Marie Kiesler in Vienna in 1913. The daughter of a banker, she dropped out of school to become an actress. Her first feature film was in 1931, her American debut, 1939, and her last film was in 1957. She lives now in Altamonte, Florida.

Screen credits include My Favorite Spy (1951) Samson and Delilah (1949), Tortilla Flat (1942), White Cargo (1942), and Ziegfield Girl (1941).

She turned down the lead in Casablanca.

The Catwoman in the original Batman comics of the 1940's was drawn in the style of Hedy Lamarr.

During World War II Miss Lamarr was part of a promotion for bond sales. Anyone who purchased $25,000 worth of bonds received a kiss from her.

Miss Lamarr sued Warner Bros and Mel Brooks in the mid 80's over the use of the character name Hedley Lamarr in the movie Blazing Saddles.

Arrested in California and Florida for shoplifting. No conviction the first time, charges dropped second time after public outcry.