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Hedy Lamarr
Actor, Producer
Born November 9, 1914Died January 19, 2000 (85 years)
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.
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2018 | Hollywood, No Sex Please! · as Eva Hermann |
| 2007 | The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk · as Theodore |
| 2006 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen · as Cast |
| 2003 | Celebrity Naked Ambition · as Cast |
| 1995 | The Casting Couch · as Cast |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III · as (archive Footage) |
| 1990 | Instant Karma · as Movie Goddess |
| 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) |
| 1967 | Personality (TV Series) · as On Film |
| 1963 | Hollywood: The Great Stars · as Gaby |
| 1958 | The Female Animal · as Vanessa Windsor |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind · as Joan Of Arc |
| 1957 | Slaughter on 10th Avenue · as Cast |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Consuela Bowers |
| 1954 | Loves of Three Queens · as Hedy Windsor / Elana Di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève De Brabant |
| 1954 | Shower of Stars (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 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 | Man braucht kein Geld · as Käthe Brandt |
| 1931 | Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. · as Helene, Seine Tochter |