Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1914-11-09
Day of Death
2000-01-19
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
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.
Filmography (55)
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
The Casting Couch
1995
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Instant Karma
1990
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
