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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
as Marvin Myles Ransome
Hedy Lamarr
Acting
Born:November 9, 1914
Died:January 19, 2000(aged 85)
Birthplace:Vienna, Austria
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CommunityBiography
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (43 movies)
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7.0
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
as Helene, seine Tochter
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Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
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7.0
Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
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6.9
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
6.8
6.8
Boom Town
1940
as Karen Vanmeer
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6.8
Come Live with Me
1941
as Johnny Jones
6.7
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
as Self
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6.5
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Delilah
6.4
6.4
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Sandra Kolter
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Let's Live a Little
1948
as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring
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6.3
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
as Princess Veronica
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6.3
Ecstasy
1933
as Eva Hermann
6.3
6.3
Calling Hedy Lamarr
2006
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Algiers
1938
as Gaby
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Lady of the Tropics
1939
as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim
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The Strange Woman
1946
Executive Producer
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The Conspirators
1944
as Irene Von Mohr
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Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
as Self
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My Favorite Spy
1951
as Lily Dalbray
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6.0
Comrade X
1940
as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
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5.8
Crossroads
1942
as Lucienne Talbot
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5.8
White Cargo
1942
as Tondelayo
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5.8
The Female Animal
1958
as Vanessa Windsor
5.7
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Dishonored Lady
1947
as Madeleine Damien
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I Take This Woman
1940
as Georgi Gragore
5.6
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Experiment Perilous
1944
as Allida Bederaux
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5.5
Tortilla Flat
1942
as Dolores Ramirez
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5.5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
5.3
5.3
The Heavenly Body
1944
as Vicky Whitley
5.3
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Copper Canyon
1950
as Lisa Roselle
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5.2
A Lady Without Passport
1950
as Marianne Lorress
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We Need No Money
1931
as Käthe Brandt
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4.4
Money on the Street
1930
as Young Girl at Night Club Table
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4.3
The Story of Mankind
1957
as Joan of Arc
4.0
4.0
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
2018
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
Storm in a Water Glass
1931
as Secretary
Loves of Three Queens
1954
Producer
The Fate of Two Queens
1954
as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor
L'eterna femmina
1954
Hollywood Blue
1970
as (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
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