Hedy Lamarr
Known for Acting · 62 credits
- Born
- 1914-11-09
- Died
- 2000-01-19
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
- Also known as
- Hedy Kiesler · Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler · Хеди Ламарр · Хеди Кислер · هدی لامار
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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Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (57)
Money on the Street
1930
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Delilah
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
as Princess Veronica
My Favorite Spy
1951
as Lily Dalbray
The Female Animal
1958
as Vanessa Windsor
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Come Live with Me
1941
as Johnny Jones
The Strange Woman
1946
as Jenny Hager
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Copper Canyon
1950
as Lisa Roselle
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Boom Town
1940
as Karen Vanmeer
Ecstasy
1933
as Eva Hermann
Lady of the Tropics
1939
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Tortilla Flat
1942
as Dolores Ramirez
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Sandra Kolter
Experiment Perilous
1944
as Allida Bederaux
Comrade X
1940
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
The Conspirators
1944
as Irene Von Mohr
Loves of Three Queens
1954
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
A Lady Without Passport
1950
as Marianne Lorress
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
as Self (archive footage)
White Cargo
1942
as Tondelayo
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
as Marvin Myles Ransome
The Heavenly Body
1944
as Vicky Whitley
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
Dishonored Lady
1947
as Madeleine Damien
Algiers
1938
as Gaby
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
We Need No Money
1931
as Käthe Brandt
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Crossroads
1942
as Lucienne Talbot
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
as Self
Let's Live a Little
1948
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
I Take This Woman
1940
as Georgi Gragore
Instant Karma
1990
as Movie Goddess (Archival)
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008
as archive footage
The Fate of Two Queens
1954
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
Hollywood Blue
1970
as (archive footage)
The Story of Mankind
1957
as Joan of Arc
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
as Self
Storm in a Water Glass
1931
as Secretary
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
as Helene, seine Tochter
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
About 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 perfor… With 62 credits spanning from 1930 to 2020, Hedy Lamarr has appeared in 57 films and 5 TV shows.
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- Money on the Street (1930) — as Young Girl at Night Club Table
- Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003) — as Self (archive footage)
- Samson and Delilah (1949) — as Delilah
- That's Entertainment! III (1994) — as (archive footage)
- Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
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