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.
Filmography (62 titles)
MovieBeautiful Like a Poem
Self (archive footage) · 2020
4.0MovieHedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
6.9MovieBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage) · 2018
5.5MovieHollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
6.0MovieStewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self · 2017
7.0MovieMarilyn, dernières séances
archive footage · 2008
7.0MovieCalling Hedy Lamarr
2006
7.0MovieHedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
8.0MovieCelebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage) · 2003
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage) · 2001
8.0MovieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage) · 1995
8.3MovieThe Casting Couch
1995
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) · 1994
4.8MovieInstant Karma
Movie Goddess (Archival) · 1990
9.0MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage) · 1984
7.0MovieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1983
10.0MovieShowbiz Goes to War
(archive footage) · 1982
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) · 1976
6.3MovieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage) · 1975
10.0MovieHollywood Blue
(archive footage) · 1970
6.7MovieMondo Hollywood
1967
6.0MovieThe Female Animal
Vanessa Windsor · 1958
4.4MovieThe Story of Mankind
Joan of Arc · 1957
6.2ShowDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Consuela Bowers · 1956
6.2ShowThe Steve Allen Show
Self - Match Game Wife · 1956
9.0MovieLoves of Three Queens
Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant · 1954
8.0MovieThe Fate of Two Queens
Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor · 1954
6.0MovieMy Favorite Spy
Lily Dalbray · 1951
5.7MovieCopper Canyon
Lisa Roselle · 1950
6.9ShowThe Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1950