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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 9, 1914
Died
January 19, 2000
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also Known As
- Hedy Kiesler
- Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
- Хеди Ламарр
- Хеди Кислер
- هدی لامار
Hedy Lamarr
1.4 Popularity
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
4.0
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
6.9
Self (archive footage)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
6.0
Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
6.3
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
0.0
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
10.0
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
10.0
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Credits
Beautiful Like a Poem
as Self (archive footage)
2020
0.0
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
4.0
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.9
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
2017
6.0
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
6.3
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
0.0
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Hollywood Blue
as (archive footage)
1970
0.0
The Female Animal
as Vanessa Windsor
1958
5.8
The Story of Mankind
as Joan of Arc
1957
4.3
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Consuela Bowers
1956
6.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Match Game Wife
1956
5.6
🎬
L'eterna femmina
1954
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Loves of Three Queens
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
1954
0.0
The Fate of Two Queens
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
1954
0.0
My Favorite Spy
as Lily Dalbray
1951
6.0
Copper Canyon
as Lisa Roselle
1950
5.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
A Lady Without Passport
as Marianne Lorress
1950
5.2
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Samson and Delilah
as Delilah
1949
6.5
Let's Live a Little
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Dishonored Lady
as Madeleine Damien
1947
5.7
The Strange Woman
as Jenny Hager
1946
6.1
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
1945
6.3
Experiment Perilous
as Allida Bederaux
1944
5.6
The Conspirators
as Irene Von Mohr
1944
6.0
The Heavenly Body
as Vicky Whitley
1944
5.3
Show-Business at War
as Self
1943
7.0
White Cargo
as Tondelayo
1942
5.8
Crossroads
as Lucienne Talbot
1942
5.8
Tortilla Flat
as Dolores Ramirez
1942
5.5
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Marvin Myles Ransome
1941
7.1
Ziegfeld Girl
as Sandra Kolter
1941
6.5
Come Live with Me
as Johnny Jones
1941
6.8
Comrade X
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
1940
6.0
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Boom Town
as Karen Vanmeer
1940
6.9
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
5.5
I Take This Woman
as Georgi Gragore
1940
5.6
Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
1939
6.1
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
7.0
Algiers
as Gaby
1938
6.2
Ecstasy
as Eva Hermann
1933
6.3
We Need No Money
as Käthe Brandt
1931
5.0
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
as Helene, seine Tochter
1931
7.0
Storm in a Water Glass
as Secretary
1931
0.0
Money on the Street
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
1930
4.4