Hedy Lamarr

Known for ActingBorn 1914-11-09Died 2000-01-19Vienna, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Showbiz Goes to War

Hollywood Blue

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Loves of Three Queens

The Casting Couch

Celebrity Naked Ambition

The Fate of Two Queens

The Trunks of Mr. O.F.

Storm in a Water Glass

Marilyn, dernières séances

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

Calling Hedy Lamarr

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

That's Entertainment! III

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

That's Entertainment, Part II

What's My Line?

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Let's Live a Little

Mondo Hollywood

Show-Business at War

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Hollywood Goes to Town

The Ed Sullivan Show

Boom Town

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Come Live with Me

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

Ziegfeld Girl

Samson and Delilah

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Lady of the Tropics

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Conspirators

Algiers

The Steve Allen Show

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

The Strange Woman

The Female Animal

We Need No Money

White Cargo

Ecstasy

My Favorite Spy

Comrade X

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Crossroads