Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000) · Austria · Actors · Died at 85 · also United States
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Something wrong?She played Delilah in one of Hollywood's biggest hits, but the radio guidance system she co-invented during the war - frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum tech - became foundational to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi decades later.
A life in dates
That's Entertainment! IIIFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1976
That's Entertainment, Part IIFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1971“Is that chubby‐faced Austrian kid in Boom Town actually me?”In their words"Hubba, Hubba Hubba - It's Hedy!" (1971)“More stairs, only this time it's in Samson and Delilah. Now, I'm ascending them, dragging poor, blinded Victor Mature by the handle of a whip.”In their words"Hubba, Hubba Hubba - It's Hedy!" (1971)1970“First he married Joan Bennett, then he married me, then he married Myrna Loy. I had a wonderful first love affair. I like men. Gene Markey was the only civilized man.”In their words"Would You Believe I Was Once A Famous Star? It's the Truth!" (1970)“The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money.”In their words"Would You Believe I Was Once A Famous Star? It's the Truth!" (1970)“A writer, a brilliant writer, wants to write the real book about me. He wants to call it The Users - the people who have used me.”In their words"Would You Believe I Was Once A Famous Star? It's the Truth!" (1970)1967
Mondo HollywoodFilm1962“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”In their wordsAs quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel1960Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward1957
The Story of MankindFilm, Joan of Arc1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries, Consuela Bowers
The Steve Allen ShowSeries, 19561950
The Colgate Comedy HourSeries
What's My Line?Series, 1950
A Lady Without PassportFilm, 1950Marianne Lorress1949
Samson and DelilahFilm, Delilah1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1946
The Strange WomanFilm, Producer1944
Experiment PerilousFilm, Allida Bederaux1942
CrossroadsFilm, Lucienne Talbot1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of SoundFilm1938
AlgiersFilm, Gaby1930
Money on the StreetFilm, Young Girl at Night Club Table1914Born9 November 1914Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 10
, Is that chubby‐faced Austrian kid in Boom Town actually me?
Ziegfeld Girl. When I see those infinite stairs in that lavish production number that out‐Metro's even Metro, I break up. The director, Robert Z.
More stairs, only this time it's in Samson and Delilah. Now, I'm ascending them, dragging poor, blinded Victor Mature by the handle of a whip.
Filmography 40
BSBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
HPHollywood: No Sex, Please!
MSMarilyn, dernières séances
CACelebrity Naked Ambition
TMThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American MoviesTIThat's Entertainment! III
IKInstant KarmaTIThat's Entertainment, Part II
BDBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?MHMondo Hollywood
TAThe Female AnimalTMThe Story of Mankind
MSMy Favorite SpyAPA Lady Without Passport
CCCopper CanyonSDSamson and Delilah
DLDishonored LadyTWThe Strange Woman
HBHer Highness and the BellboyEPExperiment Perilous
TBThe Heavenly Body
TCThe Conspirators
SWShow-Business at War
TFTortilla FlatCRCrossroads
WCWhite Cargo
ZGZiegfeld Girl
CMCome Live with Me
HEH.M. Pulham, Esq.
BTBoom Town
CXComrade X
IWI Take This WomanASA New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
CACavalcade of the Academy Awards
HWHollywood: Style Center of the World
LTLady of the TropicsALAlgiers
HTHollywood Goes to Town
ECEcstasyMSMoney on the Street64 credits on file
Television 5
DTDick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreTSThe Steve Allen ShowWLWhat's My Line?THThe Colgate Comedy HourTSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
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Born Hedwig Kiesler in Austria, she made early films in Czechoslovakia, including the erotic Ecstasy in 1933, then fled her first husband and slipped to Paris before landing in London. Louis B. Mayer offered her Hollywood, and she became a star with Algiers in 1938, followed by Boom Town, White Cargo, and the massive religious epic Samson and Delilah in 1949. At the start of World War II, she and composer George Antheil co-invented a Secret Communication System for Allied torpedoes - spread spectrum and frequency hopping designed to resist jamming by the Axis. The military didn't use similar technology until 1962, three years after their patent expired, but the principles became foundational for secure wireless networking, including Bluetooth and early Wi-Fi. She made her last film in 1958 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
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