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
Marianne Lorress
A Lady Without Passport
Allida Bederaux
Experiment Perilous
Gaby
Algiers
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Comrade X
Johnny Jones
Come Live with Me
Vicky Whitley
The Heavenly Body
Madeleine Damien
Dishonored Lady
Sandra Kolter
Ziegfeld Girl
Jenny Hager
The Strange Woman
Irene Von Mohr
The Conspirators
Delilah
Samson and Delilah
Lucienne Talbot
Crossroads
Joan of Arc
The Story of Mankind
Eva Hermann
Extase
Princess Veronica
Her Highness and the Bellboy
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Geld auf der Straße
Käthe Brandt
Man braucht kein Geld
Karen Vanmeer
Boom Town
(archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
Marvin Myles Ransome
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Dolores Ramirez
Tortilla Flat
Tondelayo
White Cargo
Lily Dalbray
My Favorite Spy
Lisa Roselle
Copper Canyon
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Lady of the Tropics
Georgi Gragore
I Take This Woman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Vanessa Windsor
The Female Animal
Helene, seine Tochter
Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Let's Live a Little
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Self (archive footage)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Secretary
Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau
Self
Show-Business at War
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Self
Hollywood Goes to Town
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
L'amante di Paride
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
I cavalieri dell'illusione
L'eterna femmina
Beautiful Like a Poem
Hedy Lamarr : l'Invention d'une star
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
50
Gender
Female
Birthday
1914-11-09
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also Known As
Hedy Kiesler