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Hedy Lamarr

Born · November 9, 1914

Died · January 19, 2000 (85 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Bio

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.

Known for

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Ecstasy

Ecstasy

Boom Town

Boom Town

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 Thirteen 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