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Hedy Lamarr 1939
Hedy Lamarr (9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000)[1] was an Austro-Hungarian-born American filmactress andinventor. She was a film star during Hollywood'sgolden age.[2]
After a brief film career in Europe, includingEcstasy (1933), Lamar moved to the United States. She became a film star with her performance inAlgiers (1938).[3] HerMGM films includeLady of the Tropics (1939),Boom Town (1940),H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), andWhite Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah inSamson 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 theHollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Hedy Lamarr was born asHedwig Eva Maria Kiesler inVienna. She was the daughter of a bank director and a concertpianist. She studiedballet andpiano 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 orNo Money Needed). The 1933 movieEcstasy 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 atorpedo to be controlled byspread spectrum radio signals. She became a US citizen in 1953. She died inAltamonte Springs, Florida.
