Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born: 1914-11-09 in Vienna, Austria
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
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
Algiers
Gaby
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
What's My Line?
Self
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
I Take This Woman
Georgi Gragore
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
White Cargo
Tondelayo
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Mondo Hollywood
Instant Karma
Movie Goddess (Archival)
Marilyn, dernières séances
archive footage
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife