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.
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Match Game Wife
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Delilah
The Strange Woman
1946 · Jenny Hager
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Sandra Kolter
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (unc...
Show-Business at War
1943 · Self
The Conspirators
1944 · Irene Von Mohr
Money on the Street
1930 · Young Girl at Night Cl...
Boom Town
1940 · Karen Vanmeer
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Lily Dalbray
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage) (unc...
Ecstasy
1933 · Eva Hermann
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018 · Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Self
The Female Animal
1958 · Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Joan of Arc
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · (archive footage)
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Allida Bederaux
Come Live with Me
1941 · Johnny Jones
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Dolores Ramirez
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Manon deVargnes Carey,...
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage)...
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Marianne Lorress
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008 · archive footage
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Marvin Myles Ransome
Dishonored Lady
1947 · Madeleine Damien
Comrade X
1940 · Golubka / Theodore Yah...
Copper Canyon
1950 · Lisa Roselle
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Self
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Princess Veronica
The Casting Couch
1995
The Heavenly Body
1944 · Vicky Whitley
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017 · Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Self
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Hedy Windsor / Elana d...
Algiers
1938 · Gaby
Crossroads
1942 · Lucienne Talbot
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
White Cargo
1942 · Tondelayo
I Take This Woman
1940 · Georgi Gragore
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 · Self
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Instant Karma
1990 · Movie Goddess (Archiva...
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Fate of Two Queens
1954 · Imperatrice Giuseppina...
Let's Live a Little
1948 · Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
We Need No Money
1931 · Käthe Brandt
Hollywood Blue
1970 · (archive footage)
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931 · Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
1931 · Secretary