Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1914-11-09
Deathday: 2000-01-19 (85 years old)

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.


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Filmography

all 57

Movies 52

self 16

TV Shows 5

Producer 2

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Movie
Self - Match Game Wife
The Steve Allen Show

The Steve Allen Show (1956)

TV
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant / Producer
Loves of Three Queens

Loves of Three Queens (1954)

Movie
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
The Fate of Two Queens

The Fate of Two Queens (1954)

Movie
Self - Panelist / Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line?

What's My Line? (1950)

TV
Jenny Hager / Executive Producer
The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman (1946)

Movie
Lucienne Talbot
Crossroads

Crossroads (1942)

Movie
Marvin Myles Ransome
H.M. Pulham, Esq.

H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

Movie
Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Comrade X

Comrade X (1940)

Movie
Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Lady of the Tropics

Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Movie
Young Girl at Night Club Table
Money on the Street

Money on the Street (1930)

Movie
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Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1914-11-09

Deathday
2000-01-19 (85 years old)

Birth Name
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler

Birth Place
Vienna, Austria

Height
1.71-meter

Relationships
Gene Markey (1939 - 1941), Lewis J. Boies (1963 - 1965), Teddy Stauffer (1951 - 1952), Friedrich Mandl (1933 - 1937), W. Howard Lee (1953 - 1960), John Loder (1943 - 1947)

Children
Denise Loder-DeLuca, James Loder, Anthony Loder

Father
Emil Kiesler

Mother
Gertrud Kiesler

Citizenships
Austria, United States

Also Known As
Hedy Kiesler, 海蒂·拉玛, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Хеди Ламарр, Хеди Кислер, هدی لامار

Awards
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, National Inventors Hall of Fame, EFF Award

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