Hedy Lamarr

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-11-09 (86 years old)

Deathday

2000-01-19

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Hedy Lamarr

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 Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pu...

Acting

1950

A Lady Without Passport

as Marianne Lorress

1944

Experiment Perilous

as Allida Bederaux

1938

Algiers

as Gaby

1940

Comrade X

as Golubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'

1941

Come Live with Me

as Johnny Jones

1944

The Heavenly Body

as Vicky Whitley

1947

Dishonored Lady

as Madeleine Damien

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Sandra Kolter

1946

The Strange Woman

as Jenny Hager

1944

The Conspirators

as Irene Von Mohr

1949

1942

Crossroads

as Lucienne Talbot

1957

The Story of Mankind

as Joan of Arc

1933

Ecstasy

as Eva Hermann

1945

Her Highness and the Bellboy

as Princess Veronica

1982

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1931

We Need No Money

as Käthe Brandt

1930

Money on the Street

as Young Girl at Night Club Table

1940

Boom Town

as Karen Vanmeer

1970

Hollywood Blue

as (archive footage)

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

as Marvin Myles Ransome

1942

Tortilla Flat

as Dolores Ramirez

1942

White Cargo

as Tondelayo

1951

My Favorite Spy

as Lily Dalbray

1950

Copper Canyon

as Lisa Roselle

1939

Lady of the Tropics

as Manon deVargnes Carey, aka Kira Kim

1940

I Take This Woman

as Georgi Gragore

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1958

The Female Animal

as Vanessa Windsor

1931

The Trunks of Mr. O.F.

as Helene, seine Tochter

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1948

Let's Live a Little

as Dr. J.O. "Jo" Loring

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

2018

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

as Self (archive footage)

1931

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1954

Loves of Three Queens

as Hedy Windsor / Elana di Troia / Empress Josephine / Geneviève de Brabant

2009

1954

The Fate of Two Queens

as Imperatrice Giuseppina / Genoveffa di Brabante / Hedy Windsor

Production

1946

The Strange Woman

as Executive Producer

1954

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