68 Facts About Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born Austro-Hungarian-American film actress and inventor.

Hedy Lamarr was a film star during Hollywood's golden age.

Hedy Lamarr became a film star with her performance in Algiers.

Hedy Lamarr acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal.

Hedy Lamarr was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Hedy Lamarr's father, Emil, was born to a Galician-Jewish family in Lemberg in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was, in the 1920s, deputy director of Wiener Bankverein, and in the end of his life a director at the united Creditanstalt-Bankverein.

Hedy Lamarr had converted to Catholicism and was described as a "practicing Christian" who raised her daughter as a Christian, although Hedy was not formally baptized at the time.

Hedy Lamarr began to associate invention with her father, who would take her out on walks, explaining how technology functioned.

Hedy 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.

Granowsky soon moved to Paris, but Hedy Lamarr stayed in Berlin and was given the lead role in No Money Needed, a comedy directed by Carl Boese.

Hedy Lamarr then starred in the film which made her internationally famous.

In early 1933, at age 18, Hedy Lamarr was given the lead in Gustav Machaty's film Ecstasy.

Hedy Lamarr played the neglected young wife of an indifferent older man.

Hedy Lamarr claimed she was "duped" by the director and producer, who used high-power telephoto lenses, but other people related to the movie contested her claims.

Hedy Lamarr played a number of stage roles, including a starring one in Sissy, a play about Empress Elisabeth of Austria produced in Vienna.

Hedy Lamarr sent most of them away, including a man who was more insistent, Friedrich Mandl.

Hedy Lamarr fell for his charming and fascinating personality, partly due to his immense financial wealth.

Hedy Lamarr claimed she was kept a virtual prisoner in their castle home, Schloss Schwarzenau.

Hedy Lamarr wrote that the dictators of both countries attended lavish parties at the Mandl home.

Hedy Lamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings, where he conferred with scientists and other professionals involved in military technology.

Hedy Lamarr initially turned down the offer he made her, but then booked herself onto the same New York bound liner as him, and managed to impress him enough to secure a $500 a week contract.

Hedy Lamarr brought her to Hollywood in 1938 and began promoting her as the "world's most beautiful woman".

Hedy Lamarr was billed as an unknown but well-publicized Austrian actress, which created anticipation in audiences.

The film was put on hold, and Hedy Lamarr was put into Lady of the Tropics, where she played a mixed-race seductress in Saigon opposite Robert Taylor.

Hedy Lamarr returned to I Take This Woman, re-shot by W S Van Dyke.

Hedy Lamarr was teamed with James Stewart in Come Live with Me, playing a Viennese refugee.

Hedy Lamarr made a third film with Tracy, Tortilla Flat.

Hedy Lamarr played the exotic Arab seductress Tondelayo in White Cargo, top billed over Walter Pidgeon.

Hedy Lamarr reportedly took up inventing to relieve her boredom.

Hedy Lamarr was reunited with Powell in a comedy The Heavenly Body, then was borrowed by Warner Bros for The Conspirators.

Back at MGM Hedy Lamarr was teamed with Robert Walker in the romantic comedy Her Highness and the Bellboy, playing a princess who falls in love with a New Yorker.

Hedy Lamarr spent much of her time feeling lonely and homesick.

Hedy Lamarr knows the peculiarly European art of being womanly; she knows what men want in a beautiful woman, what attracts them, and she forces herself to be these things.

Hedy Lamarr has magnetism with warmth, something that neither Dietrich nor Garbo has managed to achieve.

Hedy Lamarr had a penchant for speaking about herself in the third person.

Hedy Lamarr participated in a war bond-selling campaign with a sailor named Eddie Rhodes.

Hedy Lamarr tried a comedy with Robert Cummings, Let's Live a Little.

Hedy Lamarr returned to MGM for a film noir with John Hodiak, A Lady Without Passport, which flopped.

Hedy Lamarr went to Italy to play multiple roles in Loves of Three Queens, which she produced.

Hedy Lamarr was Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic, The Story of Mankind and did episodes of Zane Grey Theatre and Shower of Stars.

Hedy Lamarr's last film was a thriller The Female Animal.

Hedy Lamarr was signed to act in the 1966 film Picture Mommy Dead, but was let go when she collapsed during filming from nervous exhaustion.

Hedy Lamarr was replaced in the role of Jessica Flagmore Shelley by Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The beverage was unsuccessful; Hedy Lamarr herself said it tasted like Alka-Seltzer.

Antheil was introduced to Samuel Stuart Mackeown, a professor of radio-electrical engineering at Caltech, whom Hedy Lamarr then employed for a year to actually implement the idea.

Hedy Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 38 on April 10,1953.

Hedy Lamarr's alleged autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, was published in 1966.

Hedy Lamarr said on TV that it was not written by her, and much of it was fictional.

Hedy Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many details were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.

Hedy Lamarr, in turn, was sued by Gene Ringgold, who asserted that the book plagiarized material from an article he had written in 1965 for Screen Facts magazine.

In 1966, Hedy Lamarr was arrested in Los Angeles for shoplifting.

Hedy Lamarr pleaded no contest to avoid a court appearance, and the charges were dropped in return for her promise to refrain from breaking any laws for a year.

Hedy Lamarr was offered several scripts, television commercials, and stage projects, but none piqued her interest.

Hedy Lamarr sued the company for using her image without her permission.

Hedy Lamarr became estranged from her older son, James Hedy Lamarr Loder, when he was 12 years old.

Hedy Lamarr left James Loder out of her will, and he sued for control of the US$3.3 million estate left by Hedy Lamarr in 2000.

Hedy Lamarr often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she spent hardly any time with anyone in person in her final years.

Hedy Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida, on January 19,2000, of heart disease, aged 85.

In 2014, a memorial to Hedy Lamarr was unveiled in Vienna's Central Cemetery.

Hedy Lamarr was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

In 1939, Hedy Lamarr was selected the "most promising new actress" of 1938 in a poll of area voters conducted by Philadelphia Record film critic.

In 2014, Hedy Lamarr was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology.

Hedy Lamarr was married and divorced six times and had three children:.

In 2010, Hedy Lamarr was selected out of 150 IT people to be featured in a short film launched by the British Computer Society on May 20.

In 2011, the story of Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread spectrum invention was explored in an episode of the Science Channel show Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a series that explores the darker side of scientific discovery and experimentation, which premiered on September 7.

Also in 2016, the off-Broadway, one-actor show Stand Still and Look Stupid: The Life Story of Hedy Lamarr, starring Emily Ebertz and written by Mike Broemmel, went into production.

Also during 2017, a documentary about Lamarr's career as an actress and later as an inventor, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2021, Hedy Lamarr was mentioned in the first episode of the Marvel's What If.