Hedy Lamarr
Acting
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
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movieBeautiful Like a Poem
2020
Self (archive footage)
movieBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieMarilyn, dernières séances
2008
archive footage
movieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
Self (archive footage)
movieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Self (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment! III
1994
(archive footage)
movieInstant Karma
1990
Movie Goddess (Archival)
movieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
1984
(archive footage)
movieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieShowbiz Goes to War
1982
(archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976
(archive footage)
movieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Self (archive footage)
movieHollywood Blue
1970
(archive footage)
movieThe Female Animal
1958
Vanessa Windsor
movieThe Story of Mankind
1957
Joan of Arc
tvDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Consuela Bowers
tvThe Steve Allen Show
1956
Self - Match Game Wife
movieLoves of Three Queens
1954
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
movieThe Fate of Two Queens
1954
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
movieMy Favorite Spy
1951
Lily Dalbray
movieCopper Canyon
1950
Lisa Roselle
movieA Lady Without Passport
1950
Marianne Lorress
movieSamson and Delilah
1949
Delilah
movieLet's Live a Little
1948
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
movieDishonored Lady
1947
Madeleine Damien
movieThe Strange Woman
1946
Jenny Hager
movieHer Highness and the Bellboy
1945
Princess Veronica
movieExperiment Perilous
1944
Allida Bederaux
movieThe Conspirators
1944
Irene Von Mohr
movieThe Heavenly Body
1944
Vicky Whitley
movieWhite Cargo
1942
Tondelayo
movieCrossroads
1942
Lucienne Talbot
movieTortilla Flat
1942
Dolores Ramirez
movieH.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Marvin Myles Ransome
movieZiegfeld Girl
1941
Sandra Kolter
movieCome Live with Me
1941
Johnny Jones
movieComrade X
1940
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
movieBoom Town
1940
Karen Vanmeer
movieI Take This Woman
1940
Georgi Gragore
movieLady of the Tropics
1939
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
movieAlgiers
1938
Gaby
movieEcstasy
1933
Eva Hermann
movieWe Need No Money
1931
Käthe Brandt
movieThe Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
Helene, seine Tochter
movieStorm in a Water Glass
1931
Secretary
movieMoney on the Street
1930
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Production2
movieLoves of Three Queens
1954
Producer
movieThe Strange Woman
1946
Executive Producer