Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born November 9, 1914 · Vienna, Austria
Biography
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 Lad…
Known For · 40 titles
What's My Line?
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Steve Allen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Samson and Delilah
Money on the Street
Celebrity Naked Ambition
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
Ziegfeld Girl
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Boom Town
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Strange Woman
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Lady of the Tropics
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Ecstasy
Copper Canyon
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
The Story of Mankind
Crossroads
Algiers
The Casting Couch
The Female Animal
Comrade X
Hollywood Goes to Town
Showbiz Goes to War
Come Live with Me
A Lady Without Passport
Let's Live a Little
Show-Business at War
The Heavenly Body
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Tortilla Flat
The Conspirators