Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 09, 1914
Died
Jan 19, 2000
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Credits
62 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Beautiful Like a Poem
Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
Marilyn, dernières séances
archive footage
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Instant Karma
Movie Goddess (Archival)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)
Mondo Hollywood
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
What's My Line?
Self
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
Let's Live a Little
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
Show-Business at War
Self
White Cargo
Tondelayo
Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self