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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Known For Acting
Birthday Nov 09, 1914
Died Jan 19, 2000 (85)
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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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Filmography

The Casting Couch

The Casting Couch

1995

as (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III

1994

as (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as (archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

Showbiz Goes to War

1982

as (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

Hollywood Blue

Hollywood Blue

1970

as (archive footage)

The Love Goddesses

The Love Goddesses

1965

as (archive footage)

The Female Animal

The Female Animal

1958

as Vanessa Windsor

The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind

1957

as Joan of Arc

My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy

1951

as Lily Dalbray

A Lady Without Passport

A Lady Without Passport

1950

as Marianne Lorress

Copper Canyon

Copper Canyon

1950

as Lisa Roselle

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

1949

as Delilah

Let's Live a Little

Let's Live a Little

1948

as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring

Dishonored Lady

Dishonored Lady

1947

as Madeleine Damien

The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman

1946

as Jenny Hager

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy

1945

as Princess Veronica

The Conspirators

The Conspirators

1944

as Irene Von Mohr

Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous

1944

as Allida Bederaux

The Heavenly Body

The Heavenly Body

1944

as Vicky Whitley

White Cargo

White Cargo

1942

as Tondelayo

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

1942

as Dolores Ramirez

Crossroads

Crossroads

1942

as Lucienne Talbot

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941

as Marvin Myles Ransome

Come Live with Me

Come Live with Me

1941

as Johnny Jones

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

as Sandra Kolter

Comrade X

Comrade X

1940

as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'

I Take This Woman

I Take This Woman

1940

as Georgi Gragore

Boom Town

Boom Town

1940

as Karen Vanmeer

Lady of the Tropics

Lady of the Tropics

1939

as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim

Algiers

Algiers

1938

as Gaby

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The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman

1946

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Television Credits

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Consuela Bowers

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1956

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 10, 1950

The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Match Game Wife

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 24, 1956

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 20, 1948

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 02, 1950

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 02, 1950

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