
Known for
Acting
Born
November 9, 1914
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Died
January 19, 2000 (aged 85)
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age.
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her gre...
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as Self (archive footage)
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as archive footage
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1995
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as (archive footage) (uncredited)
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as Movie Goddess (Archival)
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as (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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as Self (archive footage)
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as Vanessa Windsor
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as Joan of Arc
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