Margaret Seymour Carpenter, born April 3, 1893, died March 30, 1987 at Boston, Massachusetts, was the author of the novel Experiment Perilous (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1943), a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was subsequently produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art...

, starring Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...

, George Brent

George Brent

George Brent was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.-Early life:He was born George Brendan Nolan in Raharabeg, County Roscommon on the opposite bank of the River Shannon from the town of Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland, the son of a British Army officer.During the Irish...

, and Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas was an Austrian-Hungarian-born actor.-Biography:Born Pál Lukács in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917...

. She was a daughter of George Rice Carpenter

George Rice Carpenter

George Rice Carpenter was a noted educator, scholar and author. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family and Edmund Rice of Massachusetts.- Early life and education :...

 and his wife Mary Seymour. She married on May 2, 1916, in New York City

New York City

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to Henry Barber Richardson of Boston, Massachusetts.