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Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; 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.
Actress: Samson and Delilah. 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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- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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- Casselberry, Florida, USA
Hedwig, now Hedy, found herself in London, where she resumed her acting career and found work on the stage. Though she did not realize it, her timing was perfect and probably saved her life. In 1938, barely a year after her escape, Hitler took over Austria.
- Who Was Hedy Lamarr?
- Early Life
- 'Secret Communications System'
- Later Career
- Personal Life, Death and Legacy
- Documentary and Pop Culture
Hedy Lamarr was an actress during MGM's "Golden Age." She starred in such films as Tortilla Flat, Lady of the Tropics, Boom Town and Samson and Delilah, with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. Lamarr was also a scientist, co-inventing an early technique for spread spectrum communications — the key to many wireless communications of our pr...
Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria. Discovered by an Austrian film director as a teenager, she gained international notice in 1933, with her role in the sexually charged Czech film Ecstasy. After her unhappy marriage ended with Fritz Mandl, a wealthy Austrian munitions manufacturer who sold arms to the ...
In 1942, during the heyday of her career, Lamarr earned recognition in a field quite different from entertainment. She and her friend, the composer George Antheil, received a patent for an idea of a radio signaling device, or "Secret Communications System," which was a means of changing radio frequencies to keep enemies from decoding messages. Orig...
Lamarr's film career began to decline in the 1950s; her last film was 1958's The Female Animal, with Jane Powell. In 1966, she published a steamy best-selling autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, but later sued the publisher for what she saw as errors and distortions perpetrated by the book's ghostwriter. She was arrested twice for shoplifting, once in 1...
Lamarr was married six times. She adopted a son, James, in 1939, during her second marriage to Gene Markey. She went on to have two biological children, Denise (b. 1945) and Anthony (b. 1947), with her third husband, actor John Loder, who also adopted James. In 1953, Lamarr completed the naturalization process and became a U.S. citizen. In her late...
In 2017, director Alexandra Dean shined a light on the Hollywood starlet/unlikely inventor with a new documentary, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Along with delving into her pioneering technological work, the documentary explores other examples in which Lamarr proved to be far more than just a pretty face, as well as her struggles with crippling...
Hedy Lamarr. Actress: Samson and Delilah. 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).
- Actress, Producer, Additional Crew
- January 19, 2000
- November 9, 1914
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Hedwig was the daughter of Bernhard III zur Lippe. She married Otto III von Ravensberg on march 5, 1271. They were the parents of nine children: Uda (between 1268 and 1276 – 25 June 1313), married John I of Isenburg-Limburg Hedwig (d. after 1346), married Torgils Knutsson (d. 9 February 1306) Herman (died near Milan)...
May 26, 2020 · As with the invention of the computer, the technology that made Wi-Fi possible came about during another devastating global event: World War II. The head inventor wasn’t a scientist or engineer, but a famous Hollywood actress with an obsession with tinkering. Actress Hedy Lamarr, ca. 1940.
