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Hedy Lamarr Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

    Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austria-Hungarian-born American actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's

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    Loves of Three Queens

    Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant ( Actor )

    Producer

    ... 1954

    Dishonored Lady

    Madeleine Damien ( Actor )

    Co-producer

    ... 1947

    The Strange Woman

    Jenny Hager ( Actor )

    Executive Producer

    ... 1946

Fullname:

Hedy Lamarr

Date of Birth:

Nov 09, 1914

Country of birth:

Austria

Died:

Jan 19, 2000

Biography of

Hedy Lamarr

    Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austria-Hungarian-born American 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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Hedy Lamarr

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Filmography of

Hedy Lamarr

Found 3 Movies in total

Loves of Three Queens

Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant ( Actor )

Producer

... 1954

Dishonored Lady

Madeleine Damien ( Actor )

Co-producer

... 1947

The Strange Woman

Jenny Hager ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 1946