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