

Mandl was an Austrian military arms merchant and munitions manufacturer who was reputedly the third-richest man in Austria. He became obsessed with getting to know her. She sent most of them away, including a man who was more insistent, Friedrich Mandl. Admirers sent roses to her dressing room and tried to get backstage to meet her. Lamarr played a number of stage roles, including a starring one in Sissy, a play about Empress Elisabeth of Austria produced in Vienna. In America it was considered overly sexual and received negative publicity, especially among women's groups. Throughout Europe, it was regarded an artistic work. Īlthough she was dismayed and now disillusioned about taking other roles, the film gained world recognition after winning an award in Rome. The film became both celebrated and notorious for showing Lamarr's face in the throes of orgasm as well as close-up and brief nude scenes, a result of her being "duped" by the director and producer, who used high-power telephoto lenses. She played the neglected young wife of an indifferent older man. In early 1933, at age 18, Lamarr was given the lead in Gustav Machatý's film Ecstasy ( Ekstase in German, Extase in Czech). Lamarr in a 1934 publicity photo with the name "Heddie Kietzler" Lamarr then starred in the film which made her internationally famous. Granowsky soon moved to Paris, but Lamarr stayed in Berlin and was given the lead role in No Money Needed (1932), a comedy directed by Carl Boese. (1931), starring Walter Abel and Peter Lorre.

Instead, she met the Russian theatre producer Alexis Granowsky, who cast her in his film directorial debut, The Trunks of Mr. However, she never actually trained with Reinhardt or appeared in any of his Berlin productions. Reinhardt was so impressed with her that he brought her with him back to Berlin. Producer Max Reinhardt then cast her in a play entitled The Weaker Sex, which was performed at the Theater in der Josefstadt. While there, she was able to get a role as an extra in Money on the Street (1930), and then a small speaking part in Storm in a Water Glass (1931). Lamarr was taking acting classes in Vienna when one day, she forged a note from her mother and went to Sascha-Film and was able to get herself hired as a script girl. At the age of 12, she won a beauty contest in Vienna. Īs a child, Lamarr showed an interest in acting and was fascinated by theatre and film. She put "Hebrew" as her race on her petition for naturalization, which was a term often used in Europe. : 8 Lamarr helped get her mother out of Austria after it had been absorbed by the Third Reich and to the United States, where Gertrude later became an American citizen. She had converted to Catholicism and was described as a "practicing Christian" who raised her daughter as a Christian. Trude, her mother, a pianist and Budapest native, had come from an upper-class Hungarian Jewish family. Her father was born to a Galician Jewish family in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine) and was a successful bank director. Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only child of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (née Lichtwitz 1894–1977) and Emil Kiesler (1880–1935). This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi. Īt the beginning of World War II, she and 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. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938).
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Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Īfter a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Hedy Lamarr ( / ˈ h eɪ d i/ born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Novem – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.
