Hedy Lamarr
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.
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Movies (45)
Beautiful Like a Poem
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
2017
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Hollywood Blue
as (archive footage)
1970
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
1958
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
1957
L'eterna femmina
1954
Loves of Three Queens
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
1954
The Fate of Two Queens
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
1954
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
1951
Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
1950
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
1950
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
1949
Let's Live a Little
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
1948
Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
1947
The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
1946
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
1945
Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
1944
The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
1944
The Heavenly Body
as Vicky Whitley
1944
Show-Business at War
as Self
1943
White Cargo
as Tondelayo
1942
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
1942
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
1942
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Marvin Myles Ransome
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
1941
Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
1941
Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
I Take This Woman
as Georgi Gragore
1940
Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
1939
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
