Hedy Lamarr

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

November 9, 1914

Died

January 19, 2000 (age 85)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Hedy Kiesler

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler

Хеди Ламарр

Хеди Кислер

هدی لامار

Hedy Lamarr

Biography

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. This system later became the basis for what is now known as Bluetooth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

2020FilmBeautiful Like a Poemas Self (archive footage)2018FilmHedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star2018FilmBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Storyas Self (archive footage)2018FilmHollywood: No Sex, Please!2017FilmStewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of Americaas Self2006FilmCalling Hedy Lamarr2006FilmHedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star2003FilmCelebrity Naked Ambitionas Self (archive footage)1994FilmThat's Entertainment! IIIas (archive footage)1990FilmInstant Karmaas Movie Goddess (Archival)1984FilmGoing Hollywood: The '30sas (archive footage)1983FilmHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footageas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1982FilmShowbiz Goes to Waras (archive footage)1976FilmThat's Entertainment, Part IIas (archive footage)1975FilmBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?as Self (archive footage)1970FilmHollywood Blueas (archive footage)1967FilmMondo Hollywood1958FilmThe Female Animalas Vanessa Windsor1957FilmThe Story of Mankindas Joan of Arc1956TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatreas Consuela Bowers1956TVThe Steve Allen Showas Self - Match Game Wife1954FilmLoves of Three Queensas Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant1954FilmThe Fate of Two Queensas Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor1951FilmMy Favorite Spyas Lily Dalbray1950FilmCopper Canyonas Lisa Roselle1950TVThe Colgate Comedy Houras Self1950FilmA Lady Without Passportas Marianne Lorress1950TVWhat's My Line?as Self1949FilmSamson and Delilahas Delilah1948FilmLet's Live a Littleas Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring1948TVThe Ed Sullivan Showas Self1947FilmDishonored Ladyas Madeleine Damien1946FilmThe Strange Womanas Jenny Hager1945FilmHer Highness and the Bellboyas Princess Veronica1944FilmExperiment Perilousas Allida Bederaux1944FilmThe Conspiratorsas Irene Von Mohr1944FilmThe Heavenly Bodyas Vicky Whitley1943FilmShow-Business at Waras Self1942FilmWhite Cargoas Tondelayo1942FilmCrossroadsas Lucienne Talbot1942FilmTortilla Flatas Dolores Ramirez1941FilmH.M. Pulham, Esq.as Marvin Myles Ransome1941FilmZiegfeld Girlas Sandra Kolter1941FilmCome Live with Meas Johnny Jones1940FilmComrade Xas Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'1940FilmA New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Soundas Self1940FilmBoom Townas Karen Vanmeer1940FilmCavalcade of the Academy Awardsas Self1940FilmHollywood: Style Center of the Worldas Self1940FilmI Take This Womanas Georgi Gragore1939FilmLady of the Tropicsas Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim1938FilmHollywood Goes to Townas Self1938FilmAlgiersas Gaby1933FilmEcstasyas Eva Hermann1931FilmWe Need No Moneyas Käthe Brandt1931FilmThe Trunks of Mr. O.F.as Helene, seine Tochter1931FilmStorm in a Water Glassas Secretary1930FilmMoney on the Streetas Young Girl at Night Club Table

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