Hedy Lamarr Biography, Age, Spouse, Inventions, Death, Facts, & Wiki

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems. As a natural beauty seen widely on the big screen in films like Samson and Delilah and White Cargo, society has long ignored her inventive genius. A very famous actress of her time, she is credited to be one of the most beautiful women to have ever graced the silver screen. Overwhelmed by cinema from childhood, she decided early on to become an actress and started her acting career as a teenager after being unearthed by a film producer.

An Austrian by birth, she eventually moved to America after contacting MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who cited her a movie contract in Hollywood. A very glamorous and talented lady, she soon settled herself as one of the most followed-after actresses in Hollywood.

Because of her sex appeal, she was invariably typecast as the glamorous temptress and appeared opposite the era’s most popular leading men such as Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. But Hedy Lamarr was no dumb beauty – she was a highly intelligent and smart woman with a keen interest in scientific inventions.

Along with the composer George Antheil, she co-invented the technology for spread spectrum and frequency hopping communications but did not receive direct recognition for this invention. The significance of the invention was realized decades later and she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014sensation.

Wiki/Biodata

Birth Name	Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
Nick Name	The Most Beautiful Woman in Films
Age	86 Years (at death)
Religion	Judaism
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Scorpio
Birth Place	Vienna, Austria
Date of Birth	9 November 1914
Date of Death	19 January 2000
Death Place	Casselberry, Florida, USA
Cause of Death	Heart disease
Nationality	American-Austrian
Residence	Vienna, Austria
Home Town	Vienna, Austria
Hobbies	Acting and Inventions
Family
Mother’s Name	Gertrud “Trude” Kiesler
Father’s Name	Emil Kiesler
Brother	Not Known
Sister	Not Known
Husband/Spouse/ Marital Status and More
Affairs/Boyfriends	Not Known
Husband/Spouse	1. Fritz Mandl (m. 1933-1937) 2. Gene Markey (m. 1939-1941) 3. John Loder (m. 1943-1947) 4. Teddy Stauffer (m. 1951-1952) 5. W. Howard Lee (m. 1953-1960) 6. Lewis J. Boies (m. 1963-1965)
Children	Daughter- Denise Loder Son(s)- Anthony Loder, James Lamarr Markey
Education
School	Max Reinhardt’s theater school
College/University	Not Known
Educational Qualification	Not Known
Profession	Actress, Inventor
Brands Endorsed	Not Known
Career Manager	Austrian Film Director
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in Feet: 5′ 7″ in Meters: 1.70 m in Centimeters: 170 cm
Weight (Approx.)	in Pounds: 128 lbs in Kilogram: 58 kg
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	34 inches (86 cm)
Hips Size	35 inches (89 cm)
Waist Size	27 inches (68.5 cm)
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	Jewish
Hair Color	Natural Brunette
Eye Color	Green
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	6 (US)
Shoe Size	7.5 (US)
Favourite Things
Favourite Food	Not Known
Favourite Actors	Clark Gable, Spencer Tracey
Favourite Colors	Not Known
Favourite Subject	Chemistry
Controversies	When she was 19 and living in her home city of Vienna, Lamarr starred in Gustav Machatý’s controversial romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), in which she performed perhaps the first on-screen female org*sm in a non-po*nographic film. “It defined her just like a s*x tape might define a celebrity today (ahem! Kim Kardashian!),” says Dean. “As a culture we definitely still struggle to deal with women who are that open about their s*xuality.” The feature caused such a stir that Lamarr’s then-husband, Friedrich Mandl, attempted to suppress it by buying up all the existing prints.

Lamarr was originally Hedwig Eva Kiesler, born in Vienna, Austria on November 9th, 1914 into a well-to-do Jewish family. An only child, Lamarr earned a great deal of consideration from her father, a bank director, and an extraordinary man, who inspired her to look at the world with open eyes.

He would often take her for long walks where he would debate the inner-workings of different machines, like the printing press or streetcars.

These discussions guided Lamarr’s thinking and at only 5 years of age, she could be found taking apart and reassembling her music box to understand how the machine worked.

Meanwhile, Lamarr’s mother was a concert pianist and suggested her to the arts, placing her in both ballet and piano lessons from a young age. Lamarr’s brilliant mind was avoided, and her beauty took center stage when she was unearthed by director Max Reinhardt at age 16.

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Personal Life, Death, and Legacy

• Lamarr was married six times. She adopted a son, James, in 1939, during her second marriage to Gene Markey. She went on to have two biological children, Denise (b. 1945) and Anthony (b. 1947), with her third husband, actor John Loder, who also adopted James.
• In 1953, Lamarr completed the naturalization process and became a U.S. citizen.
• In her later years, Lamarr lived a reclusive life in Casselberry, a community just north of Orlando, Florida, where she died on January 19, 2000, at the age of 86.

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Movies – Career

• She appeared in Gustav Machatý‘s film, ‘Ecstasy’ in 1933 as a young married woman who becomes muddled in a passionate extra-marital affair with a soldier. She disturbed considerable controversy with this role and became notorious for appearing in the n*de in some of the scenes.
• At that time she was married to a controlling man from whom she flew and fled to Paris. There she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She adopted the screen name ‘Hedy Lamarr’ at his suggestion.
• In 1938, she appeared in her first Hollywood movie, ‘Algiers’ opposite Charles Boyer. The movie became a sensation as the American audiences were captivated by Lamarr’s stunning beauty and striking onscreen persona.
• She became one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood over the next few years and appeared alongside several of the leading men of that era.
• She acted in 18 films during the 1940s which include ‘Boom Town’ (1940) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, ‘Tortilla Flat’ (1942), co-starring Tracy, and ‘Samson and Delilah’ (1949), opposite Victor Mature. During the 1940s, Hedy Lamarr also became involved in scientific research, and in collaboration with George Antheil, an avant-garde composer, she co-created a frequency-hopping system for which the duo also received a patent.
• Throughout her acting career, more emphasis had been laid on her glamorous looks rather than on her talent, and she had been typecast as a s*xy seductress. As she began to age and her beauty started waning, her film career started declining.
• In spite of being one of the most successful leading ladies in the 1940s, she could not find much success in the 1950s. She acted in only a few films and made one of her last appearances in ‘The Story of Mankind’ (1957).
• In 1966, she published a steamy best-selling autobiography, Ecstasy and Me, but later sued the publisher for what she saw as errors and distortions perpetrated by the book’s ghostwriter. She was arrested twice for shoplifting, once in 1966 and once in 1991, but neither arrest resulted in a conviction.

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Inventions – ‘Secret Communications System’

• In 1942, during the heyday of her career, Lamarr earned recognition in a field largely different from entertainment. She and her friend, the composer George Antheil, collected a patent for an idea of a radio signaling device, or “Secret Communications System,“ which was a means of varying radio frequencies to keep enemies from decoding messages.

• Originally designed to defeat the German Nazis, the system became a great step in the development of technology to maintain the security of both military communications and cellular phones.
• Lamarr wasn’t instantaneously recognized for her communications invention since its wide-ranging impact wasn’t understood until decades later.

Lesser Known Facts

1. She acted out the first on-screen org*sm.
2. She was almost in Casablanca.
3. She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.
4. Hedy married and divorced six times.
5. Hedy Lamarr featured in 30 films over her 28-year career.
6. She’s the co-inventor of 1940s wireless technology.
7. Lamarr received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, but it wasn’t until 2014-fourteen years after her death that she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
8. Lamarr offered both her invention and her knowledge to aid the U.S. war effort but was dismissed. Charles F. Kettering of the National Inventors Council told Lamarr she could serve her country better by using her fame and a pretty face to sell war bonds. Gamely, she did, raising $25 million (that’s about $340 million today) for the military through public appearances.
9. Lamarr made friends with composer George Antheil. The two discovered they shared a passion for creating and an intense curiosity about how things work. Using Lamarr’s knowledge of weapons design and Antheil’s musical instruments, they created what they called a “frequency-hopping system”: a device inspired by the roll of a player piano that could allow military torpedoes to sidestep enemy efforts at radio interference.
10. Lamarr became a prolific inventor. She created a fizzing cube that turned water into instant cola. She started sketching blueprints for unheard-of machines. She took up with millionaire aviator Howard Hughes and drafted new fish- and bird-inspired designs for the wings of his airplanes.

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