![]() While there, she was able to get a role as an extra in Money on the Street (1930), and then a small speaking part in Storm in a Water Glass (1931). Lamarr was taking acting classes in Vienna when one day, she forged a note from her mother and went to Sascha-Film and was able to get herself hired as a script girl. 7m>05s–8m00s European film career Early work She also began to associate invention with her father, who would take her out on walks, explaining how technology functioned. At the age of 12, she won a beauty contest in Vienna. : 8Īs a child, Lamarr showed an interest in acting and was fascinated by theatre and film. She had converted to Catholicism and was described as a "practicing Christian" who raised her daughter as a Christian, although Hedy was not formally baptized at the time. Trude, her mother, a pianist and Budapest native, had come from an upper-class Hungarian-Jewish family. Her father, Emil, was born to a Galician-Jewish family in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine) and was in 1920s deputy director of Wiener Bankverein, and in the end of his life a director at the united Creditanstalt-Bankverein. ![]() Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, the only child of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (born Lichtwitz 1894–1977) and Emil Kiesler (1880–1935). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.Īt the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. ![]() She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Īfter a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. A film star during Hollywood's golden age, Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest movie actresses of all time. Hedy Lamarr ( / ˈ h ɛ d i/ born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Novem – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.
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