Hedy Lamarr
Born
November 9, 1914
Died
January 19, 2000 (85 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
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Beautiful Like a Poem
2020

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
2018

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
2017

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2009

Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006

That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
1994

Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983

Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
1982

That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975

Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)
1970

The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
1958

The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers · (1 episode)
1956

The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife · (1 episode)
1956
L'eterna femmina
1954

Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
1954

The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
1954

My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
1951

Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
1950

The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · (3 episodes)
1950

A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
1950

What's My Line?
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
1950

What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
1950

Samson and Delilah
Delilah
1949

Let's Live a Little
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
1948

The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
1948

Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
1947

The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
1946

Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
1945

Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
1944

The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
1944

The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
1944

Show-Business at War
Self
1943

White Cargo
Tondelayo
1942

Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
1942

Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
1941

Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
1941

Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
1941

Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
1940

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
1940

Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
1940

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
1940

I Take This Woman
Georgi Gragore
1940

Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
1939

Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
1938

Algiers
Gaby
1938

Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
1933

We Need No Money
Käthe Brandt
1931

The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Helene, seine Tochter
1931

Storm in a Water Glass
Secretary
1931

Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
1930