Hedy Lamarr
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.
A Lady Without Passport
(Marianne Lorress)
Experiment Perilous
(Allida Bederaux)
Algiers
(Gaby)
Comrade X
(Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie')
Come Live with Me
(Johnny Jones)
The Heavenly Body
(Vicky Whitley)
Dishonored Lady
(Madeleine Damien)
Ziegfeld Girl
(Sandra Kolter)
The Strange Woman
(Jenny Hager)
The Conspirators
(Irene Von Mohr)
Samson and Delilah
(Delilah)
Crossroads
(Lucienne Talbot)
The Story of Mankind
(Joan of Arc)
Ecstasy
(Eva Hermann)
Her Highness and the Bellboy
(Princess Veronica)
Showbiz Goes to War
((archive footage))
Money on the Street
(Young Girl at Night Club Table)
We Need No Money
(Käthe Brandt)
Boom Town
(Karen Vanmeer)
Hollywood Blue
((archive footage))
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
(Marvin Myles Ransome)
Tortilla Flat
(Dolores Ramirez)
White Cargo
(Tondelayo)
My Favorite Spy
(Lily Dalbray)
Copper Canyon
(Lisa Roselle)
Lady of the Tropics
(Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim)
I Take This Woman
(Georgi Gragore)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
The Female Animal
(Vanessa Windsor)
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
(Helene, seine Tochter)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
((archive footage))
Let's Live a Little
(Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
(Self)
That's Entertainment! III
((archive footage))
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
(Self (archive footage))
Storm in a Water Glass
(Secretary)
Show-Business at War
(Self)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
(Self)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Self (archive footage))
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
(Self)
That's Entertainment, Part II
((archive footage))
Hollywood Goes to Town
(Self)
Loves of Three Queens
(Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant)
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
(Self)
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
The Love Goddesses
((archive footage))
The Fate of Two Queens
(Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor)
L'eterna femmina
The Colgate Comedy Hour
(Self)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Consuela Bowers)
The Steve Allen Show
(Self - Match Game Wife)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
What's My Line?
(Self - Panelist)
What's My Line?
(Self - Mystery Guest)