Hedy Lamarr
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.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self (archive footage)
Age 103 (now 85)
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
Age 103 (now 85)
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 85)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 68 (now 85)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Age 61 (now 85)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Age 60 (now 85)
Loves of Three Queens
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
Age 40 (now 85)
The Fate of Two Queens
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
Age 40 (now 85)
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Princess Veronica
Age 31 (now 85)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Age 25 (now 85)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
Age 25 (now 85)
Lady of the Tropics
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Age 24 (now 85)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Consuela Bowers
Age 41 (now 85)
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Also Known As
Hedy Kiesler, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Хеди Ламарр, Хеди Кислер, هدی لامار
IMDB
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