It’s been rumored that back in Hollywood’s early days movie stars and moguls communicated with each other using the 140-character instant-messaging system we now know as Twitter.
According to legend, the system was invented by the actress Hedy Lamarr, over drinks at the Mocambo club with Howard Hughes, shortly before she patented the frequency-hopping spread-spectrum radio technology that paved the way for cell phones, dooming America to decades of listening to actresses insist they were not just talented or beautiful, but smart.
In search of the truth about Twitter’s allegedly glamorous origins, Vanity Fair sent contributing editor Bruce Feirstein to the bottom of a salt mine in Kansas, where the studios store their archives and original film negatives. There, among ancient contracts and discarded film scripts by dimly remembered hacks such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, Feirstein confirmed the story and discovered the lost tweets of Golden Age Hollywood …
Among the first unearthed was this tweet, from the notoriously private star of Ninotchka "Pls stop following me I want to be alone". Greta Garbo.
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