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Hedy Lamarr

Also known as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Hedwig Mandl, Hedy Kiesler Markey, Hedy Lee, Hedy Kiesler, Hedy Mandl, Hedwig Kiesler, Hedy Boies

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress who, alongside co-inventor George Antheil, developed an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping during World War II. Her technological innovation, which was designed to prevent radio-guided torpedoes from being jammed, became foundational to modern wireless communications and demonstrates that she was a significant inventor in addition to her film career.

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Ecstacy and me My Life as a Woman
Ecstasy and Me My Life as a Woman
Ecstasy and me - La folle autobiographie d'Hedy Lamarr
Ecstasy and me

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1914-11-09
Active to: 2000-01-19

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Total plays: 615

Hedy Lamarr (pron.: /ˈhɛdi/; 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austro-American actress and mathematician, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age." When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe" due to her "strikingly dark exotic looks," a sentiment widely shared by her audiences and critics. She gained fame after starring in Gustav Machatý's Ecstasy <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hedy+Lamarr">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
“Which director did I like? I've for gotten which. Some of them were not so nice. When somebody isn't accepted by me, it's complete hate. One director never spoke to me, not even hello in the morning. Mr. Mayer never spoke to me. One day I said, "Mr. Mayer, why don't you ever say hello to me?" He said, "Why should I? You're not my wife." It was only because I wouldn't sleep with him. I didn't know anything filthy went on.”
“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. He used to spit into a spittoon.”
“I was at the studio at seven in the morning, putting on an evening gown, but I couldn't wait to get home to my children to be a nurse. What does Ava Gardner know? She never had a child, which is what it's all about. It's the truth!”
“The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money.”
“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.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website: hedylamarr.com
Image: Hedy Lamarr in Let's Live a Little (1948).jpg
Height: 1.71

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Commons category: Hedy Lamarr
date of birth: 1914-11-09
date of death: 2000-01-19
Commons gallery: Hedy Lamarr
birth name: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
name in native language: Hedwig Kiesler
start of work period: 1930-00-00
end of work period: 1958-00-00
described at URL: www.thehairpin.com/2013/08/scandals-of-classic-hollywood-the-ecstasy-of-hedy-lamarr
IPA transcription: /ˈhɪdi lamaʰ/
P8168: Champ de Mars Massacre
pseudonym: Hedy Lamarr

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Hedy Lamarr (/ˈhɛdi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.

After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a film star with her performance in the romantic drama Algiers (1938). She achieved further success with the Western Boom Town (1940) and the drama White Cargo (1942). Lamarr's most successful film was the religious epic Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film in 1958. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.