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Hedy Lamarr

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal information

Birthday

1914-11-09

Birth Place

Vienna, Austria

Movies and TV shows :

A Lady Without Passport

A Lady Without Passport

1950

5.1

Movie
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940

6.7

Movie
Algiers

Algiers

1938

6.3

Movie
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

2018

6.9

Movie
Boom Town

Boom Town

1940

6.9

Movie
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

5.7

Movie
Calling Hedy Lamarr

Calling Hedy Lamarr

2006

6.3

Movie
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

6.5

Movie
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

2009

6.0

Movie
Come Live with Me

Come Live with Me

1941

6.9

Movie
Comrade X

Comrade X

1940

5.8

Movie
Copper Canyon

Copper Canyon

1950

5.2

Movie
Crossroads

Crossroads

1942

5.9

Movie
poster

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

5.5

TV
Dishonored Lady

Dishonored Lady

1947

5.7

Movie
Ecstasy

Ecstasy

1933

6.3

Movie
Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous

1944

5.6

Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

10.0

Movie
H.M. Pulham, Esq.

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941

6.9

Movie
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

2006

0.0

Movie
Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy

1945

6.3

Movie
Hollywood Blue

Hollywood Blue

1970

0.0

Movie
Hollywood Goes to Town

Hollywood Goes to Town

1938

7.0

Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

6.5

Movie
Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

5.5

Movie
I Take This Woman

I Take This Woman

1940

6.2

Movie
L'eterna femmina

L'eterna femmina

1954

0.0

Movie
Lady of the Tropics

Lady of the Tropics

1939

6.1

Movie
Let's Live a Little

Let's Live a Little

1948

6.3

Movie
Loves of Three Queens

Loves of Three Queens

1954

0.0

Movie
Money on the Street

Money on the Street

1930

4.2

Movie
My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy

1951

6.0

Movie
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

1949

6.5

Movie
Show-Business at War

Show-Business at War

1943

7.0

Movie
Showbiz Goes to War

Showbiz Goes to War

1982

10.0

Movie
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

2017

6.0

Movie
Storm in a Water Glass

Storm in a Water Glass

1931

0.0

Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

6.8

Movie
That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III

1994

6.9

Movie
poster

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

7.0

TV
The Conspirators

The Conspirators

1944

6.0

Movie
poster

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

6.6

TV
The Fate of Two Queens

The Fate of Two Queens

1954

0.0

Movie
The Female Animal

The Female Animal

1958

5.6

Movie
The Heavenly Body

The Heavenly Body

1944

5.7

Movie
poster

The Steve Allen Show

1956

5.0

TV
The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind

1957

4.6

Movie
The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman

1946

6.3

Movie
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.

The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.

1931

0.0

Movie
Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

1942

5.4

Movie
We Need No Money

We Need No Money

1931

5.0

Movie
poster

What's My Line?

1950

6.7

TV
White Cargo

White Cargo

1942

5.8

Movie
Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

6.5

Movie