Hedy Lamarr

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1913-2000

 AUSTRIAN AMERICAN HOLLYWOOD LEGEND

Notable Films - Ecstasy - Algiers - Lady of the Tropics - White Cargo - Samson & Delilah

Worst Film - The Love of Three Queens

Famous Quote - "Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

FILMOGRAPHY

Ecstasy - Algiers - Lady of the Tropics - White Cargo - I Take This Woman - Boomtown

Comrade X - Come Live With Me - Ziegfeld Girl - H.M. Pullman Esq. - Tortilla Flat

Crossroads - The Heavenly Body - Her Highness and the Bellboy - A Lady Without Passport

The Conspirators - Experiment Perilous - The Strange Woman - Dishonored Lady

Let's Live a Little - Samson & Delilah - Copper Canyon - My Favorite Spy

The Love of Three Queens - The Story of Mankind - The Female Animal

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PERSONAL INFO

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9th, 1913 in Vienna, Austria.

Nov 9th, 1913 to Jan 19th, 2000.

Hedy was 5' 3'' Tall.

In her time she was widely considered 'The Most Beautiful Woman In Films'.  I happen to agree!

Her trademark was her lonely pout.  She rarely smiled in movies or in photos.

By the time she was a teenager, she decided to drop out of school and seek her fame as an actress.

Her first role was a bit part in the German film GELD AUF DER STRASE (aka MONEY ON THE STREET) in 1930. She was attractive and talented enough to be in three more German productions in 1931, but it would be her fifth film that would catapult her to worldwide fame. 

In 1932, Hedy appeared in a German film called ECSTASY and made the gutsy choice to be the first actress to appear nude in a major motion picture. It's the story of a young girl who is married to a gentleman much older than she, but she winds up falling in love with a younger soldier instead. The movie's nude scenes created a sensation all over the world. The scenes, while very tame by today's standards, caused the film to be banned by the US government at the time.  Ecstasy was called 'The Most Whispered About Picture In The World.'

Certain people brought her to the attention of Louis B. Mayer who signed her to a contract with MGM in 1939.  However, he insisted she change her name and make good, wholesome films.  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.

Unfortunately, and unbelievably, for Hedy, she turned down the leads in both GASLIGHT and CASABLANCA.

Married and divorced six times.

She had three children.

Corel used her as the design for the perfect face on all their merchandise... the digitally altered photo can be seen below.  It is taken from one of the actual photos you can see in the gallery  above.

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Believe it or not, Hedy is credited for inventing a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She 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.

QUOTE - "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."

QUOTE - "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."

QUOTE - "Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

QUOTE - "If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, I hope to make you use your imagination."

FINAL NOTE

I cannot imagine a more beautiful woman has ever graced the silver screen.  Hedy Lamarr is a legend of cinema, and deservedly so.

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Written by T.C. Candler.

© 2003