Hedy Lamarr
Known For
Acting
Born
1914-11-09 in Vienna, Austria
Died
2000-01-19
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.
Most Known For
What's My Line?
as Self
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Match Game Wife
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
Algiers
as Gaby
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor