Hedy Lamarr
Acting
1914-11-09 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Movie
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018 · Movie
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018 · Movie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018 · Movie
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017 · Movie
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008 · Movie
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006 · Movie
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006 · Movie
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Movie
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
The Casting Couch
1995 · Movie
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
Instant Karma
1990 · Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Movie
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
Hollywood Blue
1970 · Movie
Mondo Hollywood
1967 · Movie
The Female Animal
1958 · Movie
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
The Fate of Two Queens
1954 · Movie
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Movie
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Movie
Copper Canyon
1950 · Movie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Series
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Movie
Let's Live a Little
1948 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Dishonored Lady
1947 · Movie
The Strange Woman
1946 · Movie
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Movie
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Movie
The Conspirators
1944 · Movie
The Heavenly Body
1944 · Movie
Show-Business at War
1943 · Movie
White Cargo
1942 · Movie
Crossroads
1942 · Movie
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Movie
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Movie
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Movie
Come Live with Me
1941 · Movie
Comrade X
1940 · Movie
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Movie
Boom Town
1940 · Movie
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Movie
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 · Movie
I Take This Woman
1940 · Movie
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Movie
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Movie
Algiers
1938 · Movie
Ecstasy
1933 · Movie
We Need No Money
1931 · Movie
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931 · Movie
Storm in a Water Glass
1931 · Movie
Money on the Street
1930 · Movie