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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.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
6.9
2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
6.0
2017
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2009
Calling Hedy Lamarr
6.3
2006
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
0.0
2006
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
6.9
1994
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
10.0
1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.5
1983
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
10.0
1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
6.8
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
5.7
1975
Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)
0.0
1970
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
5.6
1958
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
4.6
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers · (1 episode)
5.5
1956
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
L'eterna femmina
0.0
1954
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
0.0
1954
The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
0.0
1954
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
6.0
1951
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
5.2
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · (3 episodes)
7.0
1950
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
5.1
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
6.7
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
6.7
1950
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
6.5
1949
Let's Live a Little
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
6.3
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
5.7
1947
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
6.3
1946
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
6.3
1945
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
5.6
1944
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
6.0
1944
The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
5.7
1944
Show-Business at War
Self
7.0
1943
White Cargo
Tondelayo
5.8
1942
Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
5.9
1942
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
5.4
1942
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
6.9
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
6.5
1941
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
6.9
1941
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
5.8
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
6.7
1940
Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
6.9
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
6.5
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
5.5
1940
I Take This Woman
Georgi Gragore
6.2
1940
Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
6.1
1939
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
7.0
1938
Algiers
Gaby
6.3
1938
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
6.3
1933
We Need No Money
Käthe Brandt
5.0
1931
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Helene, seine Tochter
0.0
1931
Storm in a Water Glass
Secretary
0.0
1931
Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
4.2
1930