Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian-American actress and inventor.

Life
Hedy Lamarr was born as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna. She was the daughter of a bank director and a concert pianist. She studied ballet and piano at age 10.

In her third movie she played her first title role (Man braucht kein Geld or No Money Needed). The movie Ecstasy was scandal at that time because she was bathing naked and runs through a wood also naked. When she worked with the famous director Max Reinhard in Berlin, he said, that she was the most beautiful woman in Europe. In 1937 she signed a contract with MGM in London and went to the USA, where she spent the rest of her life. She became a US citizen in 1953. She died in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Filmography

 * Das Geld liegt auf der Straße (Money on the Street, 1930)
 * Die Frau von Lindenau (Storm in a Water Glass, 1931)
 * Die Abenteuer des Herrn O. F. (The Adventures of Mr. O. F., 1931)
 * Man braucht kein Geld (We Need No Money, 1932)
 * Ekstase / Symphonie der Liebe (Ecstasy, 1933)
 * Algiers (1938) (download or play it)
 * Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject)
 * Screen Snapshots: Stars at a Charity Ball (1939) (short subject)
 * Lady of the Tropics (1939)
 * I Take This Woman (1940)
 * Boom Town (1940)
 * Comrade X (1940)
 * Come Live With Me (1941)
 * Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
 * H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
 * Tortilla Flat (1942)
 * Crossroads (1942)
 * White Cargo (1942)


 * Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
 * The Heavenly Body (1944)
 * The Conspirators (1944)
 * Experiment Perilous (1944)
 * Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
 * The Strange Woman (1946) (download or play it)
 * Dishonored Lady (1947) (download or play it)
 * Let's Live a Little (1948)
 * Samson and Delilah (1949)
 * A Lady Without Passport (1950)
 * Copper Canyon (1950)
 * My Favorite Spy (1951)
 * The Eternal Female (1954) (unfinished)
 * Loves of Three Queens (1954)
 * The Story of Mankind (1957)
 * The Female Animal (1958)
 * Instant Karma (1990) [archive footage]