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Hedy Lamarr
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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 gre…
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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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Hedy Lamarr's Filmography
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Beautiful Like a Poem
as Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
Marilyn, dernières séances
as archive footage
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
as Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Instant Karma
as Movie Goddess (Archival)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
as (archive footage)
Mondo Hollywood
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
Loves of Three Queens
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
Let's Live a Little
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
The Heavenly Body
as Vicky Whitley
Show-Business at War
as Self
White Cargo
as Tondelayo
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Marvin Myles Ransome
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
I Take This Woman
as Georgi Gragore
Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
Algiers
as Gaby
Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
We Need No Money
as Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
as Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
as Secretary
Money on the Street
as Young Girl at Night Club Table