Hedy Lamarr
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.
60 acting credits
Acting · 60
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
What's My Line?
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Samson and Delilah
1949
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
Algiers
1938
Ecstasy
1933
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Strange Woman
1946
The Story of Mankind
1957
Boom Town
1940
Experiment Perilous
1944
Copper Canyon
1950
Come Live with Me
1941
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
A Lady Without Passport
1950
That's Entertainment! III
1994
My Favorite Spy
1951
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Dishonored Lady
1947
I Take This Woman
1940
Comrade X
1940
Show-Business at War
1943
Mondo Hollywood
1967
The Female Animal
1958
The Heavenly Body
1944
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Let's Live a Little
1948
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Tortilla Flat
1942
The Fate of Two Queens
1954
White Cargo
1942
Crossroads
1942
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Instant Karma
1990
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
The Conspirators
1944
Hollywood Blue
1970
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
The Casting Couch
1995
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
We Need No Money
1931
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
Loves of Three Queens
1954
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Storm in a Water Glass
1931
Money on the Street
1930
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006