Hedy Lamarr
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.
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Movies (57)
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017 · Self
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008 · archive footage
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Instant Karma
1990 · Movie Goddess (Archival)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
1970 · (archive footage)
Mondo Hollywood
1967
The Female Animal
1958 · Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Joan of Arc
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant, Producer
The Fate of Two Queens
1954 · Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Lily Dalbray
Copper Canyon
1950 · Lisa Roselle
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Marianne Lorress
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Delilah
Let's Live a Little
1948 · Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Dishonored Lady
1947 · Madeleine Damien
The Strange Woman
1946 · Jenny Hager, Executive Producer
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Princess Veronica
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Allida Bederaux
The Conspirators
1944 · Irene Von Mohr
The Heavenly Body
1944 · Vicky Whitley
Show-Business at War
1943 · Self
White Cargo
1942 · Tondelayo
Crossroads
1942 · Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Dolores Ramirez
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Marvin Myles Ransome
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Sandra Kolter
Come Live with Me
1941 · Johnny Jones
Comrade X
1940 · Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Self
Boom Town
1940 · Karen Vanmeer
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 · Self
I Take This Woman
1940 · Georgi Gragore
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Self
Algiers
1938 · Gaby
Ecstasy
1933 · Eva Hermann
We Need No Money
1931 · Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931 · Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
1931 · Secretary
Money on the Street
1930 · Young Girl at Night Club Table
