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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- 2018 · Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America as Self
- 2009 · Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · Calling Hedy Lamarr as
- 2006 · Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star as
- 1994 · That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- 1984 · Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1983 · Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1982 · Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- 1976 · That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- 1975 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1970 · Hollywood Blue as (archive footage)
- 1965 · The Love Goddesses as (archive footage)
- 1958 · The Female Animal as Vanessa Windsor
- 1957 · The Story of Mankind as Joan of Arc
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Consuela Bowers
- 1956 · The Steve Allen Show as Self - Match Game Wife
- 1954 · L'eterna femmina as
- 1954 · Loves of Three Queens as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
- 1954 · The Fate of Two Queens as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
- 1951 · My Favorite Spy as Lily Dalbray
- 1950 · Copper Canyon as Lisa Roselle
- 1950 · The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- 1950 · A Lady Without Passport as Marianne Lorress
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1949 · Samson and Delilah as Delilah
- 1948 · Let's Live a Little as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1947 · Dishonored Lady as Madeleine Damien
- 1946 · The Strange Woman as Jenny Hager
- 1945 · Her Highness and the Bellboy as Princess Veronica
- 1944 · Experiment Perilous as Allida Bederaux
- 1944 · The Conspirators as Irene Von Mohr
- 1944 · The Heavenly Body as Vicky Whitley
- 1943 · Show-Business at War as Self
- 1942 · White Cargo as Tondelayo
- 1942 · Crossroads as Lucienne Talbot
- 1942 · Tortilla Flat as Dolores Ramirez
- 1941 · H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Marvin Myles Ransome
- 1941 · Ziegfeld Girl as Sandra Kolter
- 1941 · Come Live with Me as Johnny Jones
- 1940 · Comrade X as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
- 1940 · A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- 1940 · Boom Town as Karen Vanmeer
- 1940 · Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
- 1940 · Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- 1940 · I Take This Woman as Georgi Gragore
- 1939 · Lady of the Tropics as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
- 1938 · Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- 1938 · Algiers as Gaby
- 1933 · Ecstasy as Eva Hermann
- 1931 · We Need No Money as Käthe Brandt
- 1931 · The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F. as Helene, seine Tochter
- 1931 · Storm in a Water Glass as Secretary
- 1930 · Money on the Street as Young Girl at Night Club Table