Hedy Lamarr
Acting • Born 1914-11-09 – 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.
Filmography
59 credits
A Lady Without Passport
Movie • 1950
Marianne Lorress
Experiment Perilous
Movie • 1944
Allida Bederaux
Algiers
Movie • 1938
Gaby
Comrade X
Movie • 1940
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Come Live with Me
Movie • 1941
Johnny Jones
The Heavenly Body
Movie • 1944
Vicky Whitley
Dishonored Lady
Movie • 1947
Madeleine Damien
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie • 1941
Sandra Kolter
The Strange Woman
Movie • 1946
Jenny Hager
The Conspirators
Movie • 1944
Irene Von Mohr
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
Delilah
Crossroads
Movie • 1942
Lucienne Talbot
The Story of Mankind
Movie • 1957
Joan of Arc
Ecstasy
Movie • 1933
Eva Hermann
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Movie • 1945
Princess Veronica
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie • 1982
(archive footage)
We Need No Money
Movie • 1931
Käthe Brandt
Money on the Street
Movie • 1930
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Boom Town
Movie • 1940
Karen Vanmeer
Hollywood Blue
Movie • 1970
(archive footage)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie • 1941
Marvin Myles Ransome
Tortilla Flat
Movie • 1942
Dolores Ramirez
White Cargo
Movie • 1942
Tondelayo
My Favorite Spy
Movie • 1951
Lily Dalbray
Copper Canyon
Movie • 1950
Lisa Roselle
Lady of the Tropics
Movie • 1939
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
I Take This Woman
Movie • 1940
Georgi Gragore
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Movie • 2006
The Female Animal
Movie • 1958
Vanessa Windsor
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Movie • 1931
Helene, seine Tochter
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Let's Live a Little
Movie • 1948
Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie • 1940
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Storm in a Water Glass
Movie • 1931
Secretary
Show-Business at War
Movie • 1943
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie • 1940
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie • 1938
Self
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Movie • 2006
Loves of Three Queens
Movie • 1954
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie • 2017
Self
The Fate of Two Queens
Movie • 1954
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
Beautiful Like a Poem
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Movie • 2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Movie • 2018
Mondo Hollywood
Movie • 1967
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Instant Karma
Movie • 1990
Movie Goddess (Archival)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Match Game Wife
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest