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Ecstasy Lamarr in a 1934 publicity photo with the name "Heddie Kietzler" In early 1933, at age 18, Lamarr was given the lead in Gustav Machatý's film Ecstasy (Ekstase in German, Extase in Czech). She played the neglected young wife of an indifferent older man.
My Favorite Spy (1951) 15 Videos. 99+ Photos. Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lemberg (now known as Lviv).
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- Casselberry, Florida, USA
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Jan 30, 2005 · And thus she was seen by the Czech director Gustav Machaty and cast, as Hedi Kiesler, in his 1933 picture Extase - one of the most notorious movies ever made, yet one of the least seen.
Dec 23, 2015 · But Kiesler felt “strangled to death by luxury”. Obsessively jealous, Mandl tried to buy and destroy every print of Ecstasy, and he refused to let her visit her friends or go to the theatre.
Aug 11, 2016 · Mayer would rename Hedy Kiesler as Hedy Lamarr and assure her she would do more racy scenes of the type he saw in Ecstasy because his studio was home to “clean pictures.” Ecstasy was not the first film to feature a nude scene but it does have the distinction of being the first to depict, in a non-pornographic way, the female orgasm, in a ...
In 1932 she appeared in a Czech film called Ekstase (US title: "Ecstasy") and had made the gutsy move to appear nude. It's the story of a young girl who is married to a gentleman much older than she, but she winds up falling in love with a young soldier.
Jan 20, 2000 · She was 86. Miss Lamarr was forever identified with ''Ecstasy,'' a 1933 Czech film in which she appeared nude in a swimming scene and in a lovemaking sequence that was torrid for its time. The...
