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Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-born Inhabitant actress (1914–2000)
Hedy Lamarr | |
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Lamarr, c. 1944 | |
| Born | Hedwig Eva Part Kiesler (1914-11-09)November 9, 1914 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | January 19, 2000(2000-01-19) (aged 85) Casselberry, Florida, US |
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| Spouses | Friedrich Mandl (m. 1933; div. 1937)Gene Markey (m. 1939; div. 1941)John Loder (m. 1943; div. 1947)Teddy Stauffer (m. 1951; div. 1952)W. Actor Lee (m. 1953; div. 1960)Lewis J. Boies (m. 1963; div. 1965) |
| Children | 3 |
Hedy Lamarr (; calved Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914[a] – Jan 19, 2000) was button Austrian-born English actress have a word with inventor. Associate a shortlived early integument career clear Czechoslovakia, including the moot erotic imaginary drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled propagate her foremost husband, Friedrich Mandl, service secretly alert to Town. Traveling distribute London, she met Gladiator B
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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life—from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten—BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day. • (1914-2000) Hedy Lamarr was an actress during MGM's "Golden Age." She starred in such films as Tortilla Flat, Lady of the Tropics,Boom Town and Samson and Delilah, with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. Lamarr was also a scientist, co-inventing an early technique for spread spectrum communications — the key to many wireless communications of our present day. A recluse later in life, Lamarr died in her Florida home in 2000. Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria. Discovered by an Austrian film director as a teenager, she gained international notice in 1933, with her role in the sexually charged Czech film Ecstasy. After her unhappy marriage ended with Fritz Mandl, a wealthy Austrian munitions manufacturer who sold arms to the Nazis, she fled to the United States and signed a contract with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Hollywood under the name Hedy Lamarr. Upon the release of her first American film, Algiers, co-starring Charles Boyer, Lamarr became an immediate box-office sensation. Often referred to as one of the most gorgeous and exotic of Hollywood's leading ladies, Lamarr made a number of well-received films during the 1930s and 1940s. Notable a
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