Hedy Lamarr

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    Hedy Kiesler, 海蒂·拉玛, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Хеди Ламарр, Хеди Кислер

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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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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1914-11-09
  • event Death Date 2000-01-19
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 11.1
  • info Birth Place Vienna, Austria
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Hedy Lamarr

5

A Lady Without Passport

1950-08-03

5.6

Experiment Perilous

1944-12-18

6.4

Algiers

1938-01-16

5.8

Comrade X

1940-12-13

6.9

Come Live with Me

1941-01-31

5.7

The Heavenly Body

1944-03-23

5.7

Dishonored Lady

1947-05-16

6.5

Ziegfeld Girl

1941-04-25

6.3

The Strange Woman

1946-10-25

6

The Conspirators

1944-10-24

6.5

Samson and Delilah

1949-12-21

5.9

Crossroads

1942-07-23

4.5

The Story of Mankind

1957-11-08

6.4

Ecstasy

1933-01-20

6.3

Her Highness and the Bellboy

1945-11-11

10

Showbiz Goes to War

1982-12-31

4.2

Money on the Street

1930-11-11

5

We Need No Money

1931-12-24

6.9

Boom Town

1940-08-30

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Hollywood Blue

1970-11-18

6.8

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941-12-04

5.4

Tortilla Flat

1942-05-21

5.8

White Cargo

1942-12-12

5.2

Copper Canyon

1950-11-15

6

My Favorite Spy

1951-12-25

6.1

Lady of the Tropics

1939-08-11

6.2

I Take This Woman

1940-02-02

6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983-02-25

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Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

2006-01-21

5.6

The Female Animal

1958-01-22

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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.

1931-12-02

10

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984-01-01

6.3

Let's Live a Little

1948-12-09

6.7

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940-10-24

6.9

That's Entertainment! III

1994-07-01

6.9

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

2018-06-06

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Storm in a Water Glass

1931-03-13

7

Show-Business at War

1943-05-21

6.5

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940-07-31

5.7

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975-08-06

5.5

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940-05-29

6.8

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976-05-16

7

Hollywood Goes to Town

1938-07-07

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Loves of Three Queens

1954-12-24

6.3

Calling Hedy Lamarr

2006-05-12

6

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

2017-11-09

6

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

2009-01-01

6.3

The Love Goddesses

1965-03-03

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The Fate of Two Queens

1954-12-24

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L'eterna femmina

1954-12-29

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950-09-10

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

6.6

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

6.6

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

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