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.
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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.
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Known for
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
The Casting Couch
That's Entertainment! III
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Showbiz Goes to War
That's Entertainment, Part II
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Hollywood Blue
The Love Goddesses
The Female Animal
The Story of Mankind
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Steve Allen Show
Loves of Three Queens
My Favorite Spy
Copper Canyon
The Colgate Comedy Hour
A Lady Without Passport
What's My Line?
Samson and Delilah
Let's Live a Little
The Ed Sullivan Show
Dishonored Lady
The Strange Woman
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Experiment Perilous
The Conspirators
The Heavenly Body
Show-Business at War
White Cargo
Crossroads
Tortilla Flat
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Ziegfeld Girl
Come Live with Me
Comrade X
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Boom Town
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
I Take This Woman
Lady of the Tropics
Hollywood Goes to Town
Algiers
Ecstasy
We Need No Money
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Storm in a Water Glass
Money on the Street