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Hedy Lamarr
(9 November 1914 ? 19 January 2000)
[1]
was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film
actress
and
inventor
. She was a film star during Hollywood's
golden age
.
[2]
After a brief film career in Europe, including
Ecstasy
(1933), Lamar moved to the United States. She became a film star with her performance in
Algiers
(1938).
[3]
Her
MGM
films include
Lady of the Tropics
(1939),
Boom Town
(1940),
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
(1941), and
White Cargo
(1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in
Samson and Delilah
(1949).
[4]
She also acted on television before the release of her final film,
The Female Animal
(1958). She was honored with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
in 1960.
At 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
.
[5]
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.
Later, the famous director Max Reinhard in Berlin said she was the most beautiful woman in Europe. She worked in movies and in her third movie played her first title role (
Man braucht kein Geld
or
No Money Needed
). The 1933 movie
Ecstasy
was considered a scandal as it showed her bathing naked and running through a wood naked. Later that year, she married, but left her husband in 1937. She signed a contract with MGM in London and went to the USA, where she became a film star and spent the rest of her life. With a musician friend she patented a
torpedo
to be controlled by
spread spectrum
radio signals. She became a US citizen in 1953. She died in
Altamonte Springs, Florida
.
- ↑
Shearer, Stephen Michael (2010).
Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp.
8
, 339.
ISBN
978-0312550981
.
- ↑
Sterling, Christopher H. (2008).
Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century
.
ISBN
9781851097326
.
- ↑
Severo, Richard (January 20, 2000).
"Hedy Lamarr, Sultry Star Who Reigned in Hollywood of 30s and 40s, Dies at 86"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
December 24,
2018
.
- ↑
Haskell, Molly (December 10, 2010).
"European Exotic"
.
The New York Times
.
Archived
from the original on September 8, 2018
. Retrieved
July 26,
2012
.
- ↑
"Movie Legend Hedy Lamarr to be Given Special Award at EFF's Sixth Annual Pioneer Awards"
(Press release). Electronic Frontier Foundation. March 11, 1997. Archived from
the original
on October 16, 2007
. Retrieved
February 1,
2014
.
- ↑
Instant Karma
on
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