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Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
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Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Wikipedia
- November 9, 1914, Vienna, Austria
- January 19, 2000, Casselberry, Florida, United States
- Natural causes
- 5'7" (1.70m)
- Lewis J. Boies(m 1963 - 1965), W. Howard Lee(m 1953 - 1960), Teddy Stauffer(m 1951 - 1952), John Loder(m 1943 - 1947), Gene Markey(m 1939 - 1941), Friedrich Mandl(m 1933 - 1937)
- Anthony Loder, James Loder, Denise Loder-DeLuca
- Emil Kiesler, Gertrud Kiesler
- Ecstasy and Me
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