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Hedy Lamarr ( /ˈhɛdi/; 9 November 1913 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".
Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only child of assimilated Jewish parents. Her mother, Gertrud (née Lichtwitz), was a pianist and Budapest native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and her father, Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, was a successful bank director.
She studied ballet and piano at age 10. When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe".[citation needed]
In early 1933 she starred in Gustav Machatý's notorious film Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film made in Prague, in which she played the love-hungry young wife of an indifferent older husband. Closeups of her face during orgasm in one scene (rumored to be unsimulated), and full frontal shots of her in another scene, swimming and running nude through the woods, gave the film great notoriety.
Hedy Lamarr, 1969 TV Interview
History Channel Presentation: Hedy Lamarr 4 Minutes
What's My Line? - Hedy Lamarr (Mar 31, 1957)
Hedy Lamarr's 101st Birthday Google Doodle
Hedy Lamarr documentary
1946 - The Strange Woman - HEDY LAMARR & GEORGE SANDERS - Edgar G. Ulmer | #Noirvember
Hedy Lamarr - Tutorial | Beauty Beacons
Éxtasis (Ecstasy) 1933 - Hedy Lamarr
Algiers - 1938 - Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
Vivien Leigh and Hedy Lamarr---just like twin sisters
Actors: Sean Penn (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Anthony Mackie (actor), Robert Patrick (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Nick Nolte (actor), Jack Conley (actor), Don Harvey (actor), Derek Mears (actor), Troy Garity (actor), Anthony De Longis (actor), Ryan Gosling (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Jon Polito (actor), Michael Peña (actor),
Plot: It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Seargant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops.
Keywords: 1940s, accidental-killing, acid, action-hero, action-violence, airport, ambush, anti-hero, arrest, assassination-attemptActors: Phil Cornwell (actor), Ted Robbins (actor), Lizzie Roper (actress), Pippa Haywood (actress), Paul Powell (writer), Angela De Chastelai Smith (director), Drew Cain (actor), Ali Bryer Carron (producer), Evan Davis (actor), Justin Moorhouse (actor), Kay Stonham (writer), Scott Langridge (costume designer), Hugh Lawton (producer), Tim Bain (writer), Caroline Roberts (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Rachel Weisz (actress), Philip Glass (composer), Uli Edel (director), Michael Benaroya (producer), Jose Rivera (writer), Rose Ganguzza (producer), Gretchen Somerfeld (producer), Gretchen Somerfeld (writer), David Baxter (producer), Antony Loder (producer), Roland Mouret (costume designer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Marc Levin (actor), Hedy Lamarr (actress), Lilyan Chauvin (actress), Michael Palm (editor), Patricia Place (actress), Gunter Hanfgarn (producer), Kate Clarke (actress), Georg Misch (writer), Georg Misch (director), Georg Misch (producer), Heidi Schooler (actress), Arianne Ulmer (actress), Ralph Wieser (producer), Martin Rosenbaum (producer), Claudia Genah (actress),
Plot: A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is interested in how truth and myth intertwine. He listens to stories about her told by people who knew her. He dissects the history of the woman with the exotic eroticism who not only made surprising and daring decisions in her private life, but who caused a sensation with an intrepid film project right from the start. What is left? her first film Ecstasy with its scandalous nude scenes, movies that nobody has seen or heard of, a sixty-year-old son who is still struggling with his relationship to his mother, an invention whose patent ran out too soon, so that what has become a cornerstone for wireless communications, which are in constant use in our everyday lives, brought its inventor late fame but never earned her any money. At the end of the day what lingers is the echo of her fascinating beauty. The way the film handles the archive material from various sources reflects the inner conflicts of a Hollywood diva whose other talent as a mathematical genius and inventor was not allowed to unfold so as not to endanger her aura as a successful goddess of the silver screen. As we peel away the convolution of myths that grew up about her while she was still alive what gradually emerges is the portrait of a modern woman beyond the Hollywood star. In the last decades of her life the telephone became her only means of communication with the outside world, even with her children and close friends. She often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she hardly spent any time with anyone in person in her final years. For this reason, though also of course because of the significance of her invention to modern communications, the telephone has been chosen as the "structuring motif" of the movie. The interviews in the movie have been staged as telephone calls and lead the viewer through time like a nostalgic conference with the film's protagonists. Calling Hedy Lamarr isn't, however, a portrait; it is above all a film about the Hollywood diva from the perspective of her son Anthony Loder, a fairly successful telephone dealer in Los Angeles who wants desperately to be the Hollywood producer of a feature film about the life of his mother. Through his research he encounters contradictory statements and fantastic theories. There is often only a fine line between truth and lie. Many times the conversations between him and the other protagonists shift and take on a magical aspect, and in a supernatural way Hedy Lamarr sometimes even seems to join in. The Hollywood diva's purported schizophrenia is expressed dramaturgically as a persistent shifting between the extremes of her character and is a strong pattern in the film. The meaning of truth must be constantly reinterpreted. Lamarr's death in February 2000 marked the end of one of the most complex Hollywood biographies of the last century. The film ends where Hedy Lamarr's story began: in Vienna. In her will she asks that her ashes be strewn in the Vienna Woods. A homecoming she always dreamed of but which she never managed to make during her lifetime.
Keywords: actressActors: Andy Warhol (director), Mary Woronov (actress), Andy Warhol (producer), Gerard Malanga (actor), Jack Smith (actor), Ronald Tavel (actor), Ronald Tavel (writer), Mario Montez (actor), Ingrid Superstar (actress), The Velvet Underground (composer),
Plot: Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caught shoplifting by Mary Woronov and is put on trial, with Tavel as the judge and her five ex-husbands the jury. Hedy remains self-centered and detached throughout, posing and primping and bursting out renditions of "I Feel Pretty" and "Young at Heart."
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Colin Kenny (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Ernest Hilliard (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Robin Hughes (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), Patrick Aherne (actor), David Dunbar (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), John Abbott (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Dennis Hoey (actor), Crauford Kent (actor),
Plot: It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries some one else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with husband Tony. Mable is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
Keywords: based-on-novel, expectant-mother, pregnancy, pregnant, pregnant-woman, scandal, season, small-town, suicide, unwed-pregnancy