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