Hedy Lamarr
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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Known for
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife
Samson and Delilah
Delilah
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Marvin Myles Ransome
Experiment Perilous
Allida Bederaux
The Strange Woman
Jenny Hager
Hollywood Blue
(archive footage)
The Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Tortilla Flat
Dolores Ramirez
Lady of the Tropics
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
My Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
We Need No Money
Käthe Brandt
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Calling Hedy Lamarr
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Helene, seine Tochter
Boom Town
Karen Vanmeer
White Cargo
Tondelayo
Algiers
Gaby
A Lady Without Passport
Marianne Lorress
Let's Live a Little
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
The Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor
Copper Canyon
Lisa Roselle
I Take This Woman
Georgi Gragore
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
Come Live with Me
Johnny Jones
The Heavenly Body
Vicky Whitley
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Princess Veronica
Comrade X
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Ziegfeld Girl
Sandra Kolter
Loves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Crossroads
Lucienne Talbot
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
The Conspirators
Irene Von Mohr
Show-Business at War
Self
The Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Money on the Street
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Storm in a Water Glass
Secretary
Beautiful Like a Poem
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
L'eterna femmina
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self