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.
57 movies · 5 shows
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020·0.0
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018·4.0
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018·6.9
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018·5.5
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017·6.0
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008·7.0
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006·7.0
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006·7.0
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003·5.0
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001·0.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
The Casting Couch
1995·8.3
That's Entertainment! III
1994·7.0
Instant Karma
1990·4.8
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984·9.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983·7.0
Showbiz Goes to War
1982·10.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976·7.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975·6.3
Hollywood Blue
1970·10.0
Mondo Hollywood
1967·6.7
The Female Animal
1958·6.0
The Story of Mankind
1957·4.4
Loves of Three Queens
1954·9.0
The Fate of Two Queens
1954·8.0
My Favorite Spy
1951·6.0
Copper Canyon
1950·5.7
A Lady Without Passport
1950·5.3
Samson and Delilah
1949·6.6
Let's Live a Little
1948·7.0
Dishonored Lady
1947·5.8
The Strange Woman
1946·6.2
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945·6.5
Experiment Perilous
1944·5.8
The Conspirators
1944·6.3
The Heavenly Body
1944·5.6
Show-Business at War
1943·7.0
White Cargo
1942·6.2
Crossroads
1942·5.9
Tortilla Flat
1942·5.8
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941·7.1
Ziegfeld Girl
1941·6.7
Come Live with Me
1941·6.8
Comrade X
1940·6.1
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940·6.8
Boom Town
1940·6.9
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940·6.3
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940·5.8
I Take This Woman
1940·5.8
Lady of the Tropics
1939·6.5
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938·7.0
Algiers
1938·6.4
Ecstasy
1933·6.3
We Need No Money
1931·6.3
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931·8.0
Storm in a Water Glass
1931·8.0
Money on the Street
1930·5.3