Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born: 1914-11-09 in Vienna, Austria
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
What's My Line?
Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
Algiers
Gaby
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
Marilyn, dernières séances
archive footage
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
Calling Hedy Lamarr
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
White Cargo
Tondelayo