Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000) - Leading lady of the silver screen, inventor

Fast Facts

Birth name: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
Name change: Hedy Lamarr
Nickname: "The Most Beautiful Woman in Films"
Birth date: November 9, 1914
Birth place: Vienna, Austria
Death date: January 19, 2000
Death place: In her home in Orlando, Florida
Burial location: Ashes were buried in Vienna, Austria
Height: 5'7"
Weight: around 118 lbs
Hair color: Dark brown
Eye color: Green
Occupation: Actress, inventor
Nationality: Austrian
Married: Fritz Mandl (m.1933 – d.1937), Gene Markey (m.1939 – d.1940), John Loder (m.1943 – d.1947), Teddy Stauffer (m.1951 – d.1952), W. Howard Lee (m.1953 – d.1960), Lewis J. Boies (m.1963 – d.1965)
Children: James (adopted with John Loder), Anthony and Denise (biological parent, with John Loder)

FILMOGRAPHY:

• Das Geld liegt auf der Straße (Money on the Street, 1930) dir: Georg Jacoby
• Die Frau von Lindenau (The Woman of Lindenau, 1931) dir: Georg Jacoby
• Die Abenteuer des Herrn O. F. (The Adventures of Mr. O. F., 1931) dir: Alexis Granowsky
• Man braucht kein Geld (We Need No Money, 1932) dir: Carl Boese
• Ekstase / Symphonie der Liebe (Ecstasy, 1933) dir: Gustav Machaty
• Algiers (1938) dir: John Cromwell
• Lady of the Tropics (1939) dir: Jack Conway
• I Take This Woman (1940) dir: Josef von Sterberg, W. S. Van Dyke
• Boom Town (1940) dir: Jack Conway
• Comrade X (1940) dir: King Vidor
• Come Live With Me (1941) dir: Clarence Brown
• Ziegfeld Girl (1941) dir: Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley
• H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) dir: King Vidor
• Tortilla Flat (1942) dir: Victor Fleming
• Crossroads (1942) dir: Jack Conway
• White Cargo (1942) dir: Richard Thorpe
• The Heavenly Body (1944) dir: Alexander Hall
• The Conspirators (1944) dir: Jean Negulesco
• Experiment Perilous (1944) dir: Jacques Tourneur
• Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) dir: Richard Thorpe
• The Strange Woman (1946) dir: Edgar G. Ulmer
• Dishonored Lady (1947) dir: Robert Stevenson
• Let's Live a Little (1948) dir: Richard Wallace
• Samson and Delilah (1949) dir: Cecil B. DeMille
• A Lady Without Passport (1950) dir: Joseph H. Lewis
• Copper Canyon (1950) dir: John Farrow
• My Favorite Spy (1951) dir: Norman Z. McLeod
• The Eternal Female (1954) (unfinished) dir: Edgar G. Ulmer, Marc Allegret
• The Story of Mankind (1957) dir: Irwin Allen
• The Female Animal (1958) dir: Harry Keller

QUOTES:

It's easy to look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.