1914-11-09 Vienna, Austria
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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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-06 |
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Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America | Self | 2017-11-09 |
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2009-01-01 |
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Calling Hedy Lamarr | 2006-05-12 | |
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Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star | 2006-01-21 | |
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That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
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Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
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Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) | 1982-12-31 |
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
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Hollywood Blue | (archive footage) | 1970-11-18 |
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The Female Animal | Vanessa Windsor | 1958-01-22 |
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The Story of Mankind | Joan of Arc | 1957-11-08 |
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I cavalieri dell'illusione | Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor | 1954-12-24 |
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L'amante di Paride | Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant | 1954-12-24 |
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L'eterna femmina | 1954-12-29 | |
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My Favorite Spy | Lily Dalbray | 1951-12-25 |
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A Lady Without Passport | Marianne Lorress | 1950-08-03 |
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Copper Canyon | Lisa Roselle | 1950-11-15 |
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Samson and Delilah | Delilah | 1949-12-21 |
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Let's Live a Little | Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring | 1948-12-09 |
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Dishonored Lady | Madeleine Damien | 1947-05-16 |
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The Strange Woman | Jenny Hager | 1946-10-25 |
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Her Highness and the Bellboy | Princess Veronica | 1945-11-11 |
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Experiment Perilous | Allida Bederaux | 1944-12-18 |
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The Heavenly Body | Vicky Whitley | 1944-03-23 |
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The Conspirators | Irene Von Mohr | 1944-10-24 |
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Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 |
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Crossroads | Lucienne Talbot | 1942-07-23 |
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Tortilla Flat | Dolores Ramirez | 1942-05-21 |
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White Cargo | Tondelayo | 1942-12-12 |
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Ziegfeld Girl | Sandra Kolter | 1941-04-25 |
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Come Live with Me | Johnny Jones | 1941-01-31 |
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H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Marvin Myles Ransome | 1941-12-04 |
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
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I Take This Woman | Georgi Gragore | 1940-02-02 |
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
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Comrade X | Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie' | 1940-12-13 |
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Boom Town | Karen Vanmeer | 1940-08-30 |
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 1940-07-31 |
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Lady of the Tropics | Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim | 1939-08-11 |
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Algiers | Gaby | 1938-01-16 |
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Hollywood Goes to Town | Self | 1938-07-07 |
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Extase | Eva Hermann | 1933-01-20 |
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Man braucht kein Geld | Käthe Brandt | 1931-12-24 |
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Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau | Secretary | 1931-03-13 |
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Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. | Helene, seine Tochter | 1931-12-02 |
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Geld auf der Straße | Young Girl at Night Club Table | 1930-11-11 |
