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Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000 was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy, she fled from her abusive 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. Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics, Boom Town, H.M. Pulham, Esq., and White Cargo. Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.



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Hedy Lamarr ‘most promising new actress’ of 1938
Hedy Lamarr, 1938
Hedy Lamarr (1940s)
Hedy Lamarr, 1939
Hedy Lamarr, 1940s
Hedy Lamarr, 1940s
Hedy Lamarr, 1940s
Hedy Lamarr was born on this day in 1914. Once celebrated as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” she was actually a remarkable inventor who devised a system for remote-controlling torpedoes that became the basis for bluetooth and wifi
Hedy Lamarr / publicity photo for Alexander Hall’s The Heavenly Body (1944) / photo for MGM by Laszlo Willinger.