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.
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 (Movies)
Beautiful Like a Poem
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:11/05/2020
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Character:
Release Date:21/10/2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/06/2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Character:
Release Date:01/03/2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Character:Self
Release Date:09/11/2017
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Character:
Release Date:12/05/2006
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Character:
Release Date:21/01/2006
That's Entertainment! III
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/07/1994
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:25/02/1983
Showbiz Goes to War
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:31/12/1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/08/1975
Hollywood Blue
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:18/11/1970
The Love Goddesses
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:03/03/1965
The Female Animal
Character:Vanessa Windsor
Release Date:22/01/1958
The Story of Mankind
Character:Joan of Arc
Release Date:08/11/1957
L'eterna femmina
Character:
Release Date:29/12/1954
Loves of Three Queens
Character:Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Release Date:24/12/1954
The Fate of Two Queens
Character:Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
Release Date:24/12/1954
My Favorite Spy
Character:Lily Dalbray
Release Date:25/12/1951
Copper Canyon
Character:Lisa Roselle
Release Date:15/11/1950
A Lady Without Passport
Character:Marianne Lorress
Release Date:03/08/1950
Samson and Delilah
Character:Delilah
Release Date:21/12/1949
Let's Live a Little
Character:Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Release Date:09/12/1948
Dishonored Lady
Character:Madeleine Damien
Release Date:16/05/1947
The Strange Woman
Character:Jenny Hager
Release Date:25/10/1946
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Character:Princess Veronica
Release Date:11/11/1945
Experiment Perilous
Character:Allida Bederaux
Release Date:18/12/1944
The Conspirators
Character:Irene Von Mohr
Release Date:24/10/1944
The Heavenly Body
Character:Vicky Whitley
Release Date:23/03/1944
Show-Business at War
Character:Self
Release Date:21/05/1943
White Cargo
Character:Tondelayo
Release Date:12/12/1942
Crossroads
Character:Lucienne Talbot
Release Date:23/07/1942
Tortilla Flat
Character:Dolores Ramirez
Release Date:21/05/1942
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character:Marvin Myles Ransome
Release Date:04/12/1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Character:Sandra Kolter
Release Date:25/04/1941
Come Live with Me
Character:Johnny Jones
Release Date:31/01/1941
Comrade X
Character:Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Release Date:13/12/1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Character:Self
Release Date:24/10/1940
Boom Town
Character:Karen Vanmeer
Release Date:30/08/1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Character:Self
Release Date:31/07/1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Character:Self
Release Date:29/05/1940
I Take This Woman
Character:Georgi Gragore
Release Date:02/02/1940
Lady of the Tropics
Character:Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Release Date:11/08/1939
Hollywood Goes to Town
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/1938
Algiers
Character:Gaby
Release Date:16/01/1938
Ecstasy
Character:Eva Hermann
Release Date:20/01/1933
We Need No Money
Character:Käthe Brandt
Release Date:24/12/1931
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Character:Helene, seine Tochter
Release Date:02/12/1931
Storm in a Water Glass
Character:Secretary
Release Date:13/03/1931
Money on the Street
Character:Young Girl at Night Club Table
Release Date:11/11/1930
Television Appearances
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