Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born 1914-11-09
Died 2000-01-19
Vienna, Austria
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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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Filmography
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Acting
55 credits
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
What's My Line?
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Steve Allen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Samson and Delilah
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Ziegfeld Girl
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
Money on the Street
Copper Canyon
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Boom Town
Ecstasy
The Story of Mankind
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Strange Woman
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Tortilla Flat
Comrade X
Dishonored Lady
A Lady Without Passport
My Favorite Spy
Algiers
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Experiment Perilous
Loves of Three Queens
Come Live with Me
The Conspirators
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
The Female Animal
White Cargo
Crossroads
Going Hollywood: The '30s
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Marilyn, dernières séances
Lady of the Tropics
The Heavenly Body
Hollywood Goes to Town
Showbiz Goes to War
I Take This Woman
Show-Business at War
Instant Karma
Storm in a Water Glass
The Fate of Two Queens
Hollywood Blue
Let's Live a Little
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Beautiful Like a Poem
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Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Mondo Hollywood
The Casting Couch
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Producing
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