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Hedy Lamarr [89088]
Age: 85 years
Birthday: 1914-11-09
Deathday: 2000-01-19
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Credits: 47
Popularity: 0.861
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: 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.

Stewart & Mitchum:…
2017-11-09
Bombshell: The Hed…
2018-06-06
Cinema's Exiles: F…
2009-01-01
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006-05-12
Hedy Lamarr: Secre…
2006-01-21
That's Entertainme…
1994-07-01
Going Hollywood: T…
1984-01-01
Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31
That's Entertainme…
1976-05-16
Brother, Can You S…
1975-08-06
Hollywood Blue
1970-11-18
The Female Animal
1958-01-22
The Story of Mankind
1957-11-08
I cavalieri dell'i…
1954-12-24
L'amante di Paride
1954-12-24
My Favorite Spy
1951-12-25
A Lady Without Pas…
1950-08-03
Copper Canyon
1950-11-15
Samson and Delilah
1949-12-21
Let's Live a Little
1948-12-09
Dishonored Lady
1947-05-16
The Strange Woman
1946-10-25
Her Highness and t…
1945-11-11
Experiment Perilous
1944-12-18
The Conspirators
1944-10-24
The Heavenly Body
1944-03-23
Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
White Cargo
1942-12-12
Crossroads
1942-07-23
Tortilla Flat
1942-05-21
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Come Live with Me
1941-01-31
Comrade X
1940-12-13
A New Romance of C…
1940-10-24
Boom Town
1940-08-30
Cavalcade of the A…
1940-07-31
Hollywood: Style C…
1940-05-29
I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
Lady of the Tropics
1939-08-11
Hollywood Goes to …
1938-07-07
Algiers
1938-01-16
Extase
1933-01-20
Man braucht kein Geld
1931-12-24
Die Koffer des Her…
1931-12-02
Die Blumenfrau von…
1931-03-13
Geld auf der Straße
1930-11-11