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