Hedy Lamarr

Biography

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

What's My Line?

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Steve Allen Show

Samson and Delilah

Celebrity Naked Ambition

The Strange Woman

All Movies (55)

• Beautiful Like a Poem2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star2018
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood: No Sex, Please!2018
• Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America2017 · as Self
• Marilyn, dernières séances2008 · as archive footage
• Calling Hedy Lamarr2006
• Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star2006
• Celebrity Naked Ambition2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Casting Couch1995
• That's Entertainment! III1994 · as (archive footage)
• Instant Karma1990 · as Movie Goddess (Archival)
• Going Hollywood: The '30s1984 · as (archive footage)
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage1983 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Showbiz Goes to War1982 · as (archive footage)
• That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · as (archive footage)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Blue1970 · as (archive footage)
• Mondo Hollywood1967
• The Female Animal1958 · as Vanessa Windsor
• The Story of Mankind1957 · as Joan of Arc
• Loves of Three Queens1954 · as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
• The Fate of Two Queens1954 · as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
• My Favorite Spy1951 · as Lily Dalbray
• Copper Canyon1950 · as Lisa Roselle
• A Lady Without Passport1950 · as Marianne Lorress
• Samson and Delilah1949 · as Delilah
• Let's Live a Little1948 · as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
• Dishonored Lady1947 · as Madeleine Damien
• The Strange Woman1946 · as Jenny Hager
• Her Highness and the Bellboy1945 · as Princess Veronica
• Experiment Perilous1944 · as Allida Bederaux
• The Conspirators1944 · as Irene Von Mohr
• The Heavenly Body1944 · as Vicky Whitley
• Show-Business at War1943 · as Self
• White Cargo1942 · as Tondelayo
• Crossroads1942 · as Lucienne Talbot
• Tortilla Flat1942 · as Dolores Ramirez
• H.M. Pulham, Esq.1941 · as Marvin Myles Ransome
• Ziegfeld Girl1941 · as Sandra Kolter
• Come Live with Me1941 · as Johnny Jones
• Comrade X1940 · as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
• A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound1940 · as Self
• Boom Town1940 · as Karen Vanmeer
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · as Self
• Hollywood: Style Center of the World1940 · as Self
• I Take This Woman1940 · as Georgi Gragore
• Lady of the Tropics1939 · as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
• Hollywood Goes to Town1938 · as Self
• Algiers1938 · as Gaby
• Ecstasy1933 · as Eva Hermann
• We Need No Money1931 · as Käthe Brandt
• The Trunks of Mr. O.F.1931 · as Helene, seine Tochter
• Storm in a Water Glass1931 · as Secretary
• Money on the Street1930 · as Young Girl at Night Club Table

All TV Shows (5)

• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Consuela Bowers
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self - Match Game Wife
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self