Who is Hedy Lamarr?

📩 04/01/2023 08:58

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, born 9 November 1914 - died 19 January 2000) [a] Actress, inventor of Jewish descent, who later lived in the United States.

Although Lamarr has appeared in many popular films, the main ones include the 1938 film Algiers, in which he co-starred with Charles Boyer, the 1940 film I Take This Woman, in which he co-starred with Spencer Tracy, the 1940 film Comrade X, in which he co-starred with Clark Gable, the 1941 film. Come Live With Me, in which he co-starred with James Stewart, HM Pulham, Esq, in which he co-starred with Robert Young in 1941. and the 1949 film Samson and Delilah, in which he starred with Victor Mature. In 1933, his nudity in the movie Ecstasy, directed by Gustav Machatý, became a subject of discussion and he left his wife and secretly fled to Paris. While there, he met with the chairman of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, and was offered a movie contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a star with films he starred in from the early 1930s to the late 1950s.

During his first marriage, Lamarr's interest in applied sciences grew and he made inventions as an inventor, bored with his acting career. II. At the beginning of World War II, he was eager to assist the allies' forces in battle. Together with the composer and inventor George Antheil, they invented the frequency hopping spread spectrum so that the spread spectrum can be used in radio guided torpedoes and patented it in the USA. The US Navy did not adopt this technology until the 1960s, but today the working principles of this technology are included in Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technologies. In addition, for this work, he was honored in 2014 at the Famous National Inventors Hall in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

Films

Year	Ordinary	role	Headliner	Notes
1930	Gold on the street	Young girl	Georg alexander	Original name: Geld auf der Straße
1931	Storm in a Water Glass	Secretary	Paul otto	Original name: Sturm im Wasserglas
1931	The Trunks of Mr. UGH	Helene	Alfred Abel	Original name: Die Koffer des Herrn OF
1932	No Money Needed	Käthe Brandt	Heinz Rühmann	Original name: Man braucht kein Geld
1933	Ecstasy	Eva hermann	Gustav Machatý	Original name: Ekstase
1938	Algiers	Gaby	Charles Boyer
1939	Lady of the Tropics	Manon deVargnes Carey	Robert Taylor
1940	I Take This Woman	Georgi Gragore Decker	Spencer Tracy
1940	Boom Town	Karen Vanmeer	Clark Gable
1940	Comrade X	Theodore	Clark Gable
1941	Come live with me	Johnny Jones	James Stewart
1941	Ziegfeld Girl	Sandra Kolter	James Stewart
1941	HM Pulham, Esq.	Marvin Myles Ransome	Robert Young
1942	Tortilla Flat	Dolores Ramirez	Spencer Tracy
1942	Crossroads	Lucienne Talbot	William Powell
1942	White Cargo	White Cargo	Walter Pidgeon
1944	The Heavenly Body	Vicky Whitley	William Powell
1944	The Conspirators	Irene Von Mohr	Paul Henreid
1944	Experiment Perilous	Allida Bederaux	George Brent
1945	Her Highness and the Bellboy	Princess Veronica	Robert Walker
1946	The Strange Woman	Jenny Hager	George Sanders
1947	Dishonored Lady	Madeleine Damien	Dennis o'keefe
1948	Let's Live a Little	Dr. Loring OJ	Robert Cummings
1949	Samson and Delilah	Delilah	Victor Mature	First Technicolor film
1950	A Lady Without Passport	Marianne Lorress	John Pipes
1950	Copper Canyon	Lisa Roselle	Ray Milland
1951	My Favorite Spy	Lily Dalbray	Bob Hope
1954	Loves of Three Queens	Helen of Troy, Josephine de Beauharnais, Genevieve of Brabant	Massimo Serato Cesare Danova	Original name: L'amante di Paride
1957	The Story of Mankind	Joan of Arc	Ronald Colman
1958	The Female Animal	Vanessa Windsor	George Nader