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Hedy Lamarr

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
9 November 1914, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Date of Death / Ölüm Tarihi
19 January 2000, Orlando, Florida, USA. (natural causes)

Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler

Mini Biography / Biyografi
The woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, and was a student of theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin. She began her career in 1930 in Czech and German films. It was the Czech production Ekstase (1933), in which she caused an international sensation by appearing nude and simulating orgasm, that brought her worldwide attention. The resulting notoriety got her called to Hollywood, and she was signed by MGM. The studio changed her name to the more elegant "Hedy Lamarr" and put her in a series of exotic adventure epics such as Algiers (1938) and White Cargo (1942). Her biggest success was in Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular Samson and Delilah (1949) as the title temptress, but her career declined from that point as her looks began to fade and a new crop of beauties supplanted her. She left the screen in 1957. IMDb Mini Biography By: Volker Boehm

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, a Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.Children: Anthony Loder (b. 01.03.1947), Denise Loder (b. 29.05.1945), James (b. 06.03.1939 - father John Loder; adopted 16.10.1939 as James Markey Lamarr)Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court)Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. [April 1998]After a screen test, it was Louis B. Mayer who changed her last name to Lamarr in honor of silent film star Barbara La Marr.Arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. Found not guilty.Arrested for shoplifting in 1991. One year probation.During her marriage to screenwriter Gene Markey, the two adopted a son, James. She soon after gave birth to two children, Denise Hedy and Anthony, while married to actor John Loder.One of the few stars with whom costume designer Edith Head admitted she didn't like working. The others were Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard.Was co-inventor (with composer George Antheil) of the earliest known form of the telecommunications method known as ""frequency hopping"", which used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. The method received U.S. patent number 2,292,387 on Aug. 11, 1942, under the name ""Secret Communications System"". Frequency hopping is now widely used in cellular phones and other modern technology. However neither she nor Antheil profited from this fact, because their patents were allowed to expire decades before the modern wireless boom. She received an award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997 for her work pioneering work in spread-spectrum technology.Measurements: 33-22-34 (1933 in Ekstase (1933) ), 33B-23-35 (1940s starlet), 34B-26-37 (later career), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)For her appearance in Ekstase (1933), Hedy is credited as being the first nude woman as well as portraying the first sex-scene in film history. Scenes were cut and additional ones added in order to be able to release it in some countries.Her profile was the most requested in the 1940s by women to their plastic surgeons.Having died in January of 2000, she has the distinction (of sorts) of being one of the first major entertainers to die in the 21st century.Biography in: ""American National Biography"". Supplement 1, pp. 337-338. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.The mansion used in The Sound of Music (1965) belonged to her at the time.The first Inventor's Day in Germany was held in her honor on 9 November 2005, what would have been her 92nd birthday.Became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 10 April 1953.Dr. Kleiner's pet head-crab ""Lamarr"" in the computer game Half-Life 2 (2004) (VG) is named after her.

Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. I need a superior inferior man.""My problem is, I'm a hell of a nice dame, The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money.If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, I hope to make you use your imagination""Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.""[speaking in the 1960s] ""It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country [USA] money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that's why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for Vienna ... because my home is Vienna and Austria, not America...never!""""It's about time"", in reference to the EFF award for invention frequency hopping.