Hedy Lamarr
44 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 9, 1914
- Died
- Jan 19, 2000 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
- Also known as
- Hedy Kiesler · Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler · Хеди Ламарр · Хеди Кислер
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.
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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.
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Known for
Hedy Lamarr: movies and TV shows
Acting (45)
- 2018
- 2018
- 2008 Marilyn, dernières séances
as archive footage
- 2006
- 2006
- 1995
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990 Instant Karma
as Movie Goddess (Archival)
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
- 1982 Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1970 Hollywood Blue
as (archive footage)
- 1967
- 1958 The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
- 1957 The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
- 1956
- 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
- 1951 My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
- 1950 Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
- 1950 A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
- 1949 Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
- 1948 Let's Live a Little
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
- 1947 Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
- 1946 The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
- 1945 Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
- 1944 Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
- 1944 The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
- 1944 The Heavenly Body
as Vicky Whitley
- 1942 White Cargo
as Tondelayo
- 1942 Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
- 1942 Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
- 1941 H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Marvin Myles Ransome
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
- 1941 Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
- 1940 Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
- 1940 Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
- 1940 I Take This Woman
as Georgi Gragore
- 1939 Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
- 1938 Algiers
as Gaby
- 1933 Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
- 1931 We Need No Money
as Käthe Brandt
- 1931 The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
as Helene, seine Tochter
- 1931 Storm in a Water Glass
as Secretary
- 1930 Money on the Street
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
Behind the camera (2)
- 1954 Loves of Three Queens
Producer
- 1946 The Strange Woman
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (17)
- 2020
- 2018
- 2017
- 2003
- 2001
- 1995
- 1983
- 1975
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show
1 episode
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
3 episodes
- 1950 What's My Line?
2 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1943
- 1940
- 1940
- 1940
- 1938