Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
1914-11-09
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Vienna, Austria
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
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018 · Movie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018 · Movie
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017 · Movie
as Self
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008 · Movie
as archive footage
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006 · Movie
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006 · Movie
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995 · Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Instant Karma
1990 · Movie
as Movie Goddess (Archival)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · Movie
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Blue
1970 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Mondo Hollywood
1967 · Movie
The Female Animal
1958 · Movie
as Vanessa Windsor
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Movie
as Joan of Arc
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Match Game Wife
Loves of Three Queens
1954 · Movie
as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
The Fate of Two Queens
1954 · Movie
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Movie
as Lily Dalbray
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Movie
as Marianne Lorress
Copper Canyon
1950 · Movie
as Lisa Roselle
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · TV Show
as Self
What's My Line?
1950 · TV Show
as Self
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Movie
as Delilah
Let's Live a Little
1948 · Movie
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · TV Show
as Self
Dishonored Lady
1947 · Movie
as Madeleine Damien
The Strange Woman
1946 · Movie
as Jenny Hager
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Movie
as Princess Veronica
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Movie
as Allida Bederaux
The Heavenly Body
1944 · Movie
as Vicky Whitley
The Conspirators
1944 · Movie
as Irene Von Mohr
Show-Business at War
1943 · Movie
as Self
Crossroads
1942 · Movie
as Lucienne Talbot
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Movie
as Dolores Ramirez
White Cargo
1942 · Movie
as Tondelayo
Come Live with Me
1941 · Movie
as Johnny Jones
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Movie
as Sandra Kolter
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Movie
as Marvin Myles Ransome
Comrade X
1940 · Movie
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Boom Town
1940 · Movie
as Karen Vanmeer
I Take This Woman
1940 · Movie
as Georgi Gragore
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Movie
as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Movie
as Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 · Movie
as Self
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Movie
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
Algiers
1938 · Movie
as Gaby
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Movie
as Self
Ecstasy
1933 · Movie
as Eva Hermann
We Need No Money
1931 · Movie
as Käthe Brandt
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931 · Movie
as Helene, seine Tochter
Storm in a Water Glass
1931 · Movie
as Secretary
Money on the Street
1930 · Movie
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
