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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Acting
Movie
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
1949
Movie
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Movie
Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
1933
Movie
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
1940
Movie
Algiers
as Gaby
1938
Movie
The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
1946
Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Movie
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
1941
Movie
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
1942
Movie
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
Movie
Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
1944
Movie
Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
1941
TV
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
TV
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Movie
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
1957
Movie
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
1942
Movie
Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
1947
Movie
Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
1940
Movie
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
1950
Movie
Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
1950
TV
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Movie
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
1951
Movie
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
1958
Movie
The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
1944
