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Hedy Lamarr
Vienna, Austria
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 Golde…
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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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2020
Beautiful Like a Poem
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2018
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2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2018
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2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie Self
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2008
Marilyn, dernières séances
Movie archive footage
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2006
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Movie
- 2006
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2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
The Casting Couch
Movie
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1990
Instant Karma
Movie Movie Goddess (Archival)
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1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
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1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1982
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie (archive footage)
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1970
Hollywood Blue
Movie (archive footage)
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1967
Mondo Hollywood
Movie
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1958
The Female Animal
Movie Vanessa Windsor
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1957
The Story of Mankind
Movie Joan of Arc
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Consuela Bowers
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1956
The Steve Allen Show
TV show Self - Match Game Wife
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1954
Loves of Three Queens
Movie Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant
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1954
The Fate of Two Queens
Movie Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
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1951
My Favorite Spy
Movie Lily Dalbray
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1950
Copper Canyon
Movie Lisa Roselle
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1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self
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1950
A Lady Without Passport
Movie Marianne Lorress
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1949
Samson and Delilah
Movie Delilah
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1948
Let's Live a Little
Movie Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1947
Dishonored Lady
Movie Madeleine Damien
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1946
The Strange Woman
Movie Jenny Hager
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1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Movie Princess Veronica
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1944
Experiment Perilous
Movie Allida Bederaux
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1944
The Conspirators
Movie Irene Von Mohr
