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.

Filmography

• 2018Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
• 2018Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
• 2008Marilyn, dernières séances — archive footage
• 2006Calling Hedy Lamarr
• 2006Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
• 1995The Casting Couch
• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1990Instant Karma — Movie Goddess (Archival)
• 1984Going Hollywood: The '30s — (archive footage)
• 1982Showbiz Goes to War — (archive footage)
• 1976That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1970Hollywood Blue — (archive footage)
• 1967Mondo Hollywood
• 1958The Female Animal — Vanessa Windsor
• 1957The Story of Mankind — Joan of Arc
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Consuela Bowers
• 1954Loves of Three Queens — Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant, Producer
• 1954The Fate of Two Queens — Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
• 1951My Favorite Spy — Lily Dalbray
• 1950A Lady Without Passport — Marianne Lorress
• 1950Copper Canyon — Lisa Roselle
• 1949Samson and Delilah — Delilah
• 1948Let's Live a Little — Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
• 1947Dishonored Lady — Madeleine Damien
• 1946The Strange Woman — Jenny Hager, Executive Producer
• 1945Her Highness and the Bellboy — Princess Veronica
• 1944Experiment Perilous — Allida Bederaux
• 1944The Conspirators — Irene Von Mohr
• 1944The Heavenly Body — Vicky Whitley
• 1942Crossroads — Lucienne Talbot
• 1942Tortilla Flat — Dolores Ramirez
• 1942White Cargo — Tondelayo
• 1941Come Live with Me — Johnny Jones
• 1941H.M. Pulham, Esq. — Marvin Myles Ransome
• 1941Ziegfeld Girl — Sandra Kolter
• 1940Boom Town — Karen Vanmeer
• 1940Comrade X — Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
• 1940I Take This Woman — Georgi Gragore
• 1939Lady of the Tropics — Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
• 1938Algiers — Gaby
• 1933Ecstasy — Eva Hermann
• 1931Storm in a Water Glass — Secretary
• 1931The Trunks of Mr. O.F. — Helene, seine Tochter
• 1931We Need No Money — Käthe Brandt
• 1930Money on the Street — Young Girl at Night Club Table

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2020Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America — Self
• 2003Celebrity Naked Ambition — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel — Self (archive footage)
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Match Game Wife
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1943Show-Business at War — Self
• 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self
• 1940Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self
• 1940Hollywood: Style Center of the World — Self
• 1938Hollywood Goes to Town — Self