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