Hedy Lamarr

<html> <head> <title>Hedy Lamarr</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/270/000044138/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Hedy Lamarr<img src="lamar4-sized.jpg" height=267 width=223 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Hedy Lamarr">AKA Hedwig Eva Maria KieslerBorn: <a href="/lists/831/000106513/" class=proflink>9-Nov</a>-<a href="/lists/912/000105597/" class=proflink>1913</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/826/000069619/" class=proflink>Vienna, Austria</a> Died: <a href="/lists/902/000106584/" class=proflink>19-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/510/000106192/" class=proflink>2000</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/648/000080408/" class=proflink>Altamonte Springs, FL</a> Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in the Vienna Woods, Austria) Gender: Female Religion: <a href="/lists/758/000094476/" class=proflink>Roman Catholic</a> <a href="#FN1">[1]</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: <a href="/lists/244/000069037/" class=proflink>Bisexual</a> Occupation: Actor, <a href="/lists/231/000069024/" class=proflink>Inventor</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Actress, invented frequency hoppingLong-time MGM actress Hedy Lamarr is best-known for starring roles opposite <a href="/people/888/000065693/">Charles Boyer</a> in Algiers and <a href="/people/798/000042672/">Victor Mature</a> in <a href="/people/621/000031528/">Cecil B. DeMille</a>'s Samson and Delilah. She grew up in Austria, started working in film at 17, and at 19 made her first fame with scandalous full frontal nudity in the exquisite German romance Exstase (Ecstasy). According to legend she later met <a href="/people/827/000063638/">Louis B. Mayer</a> in London and he brought her to America, where she launched a long career in Hollywood. In 1942, working with composer <a href="/people/874/000116526/">George Antheil</a>, Lamarr came up with the idea now known as spread-spectrum or frequency hopping, to make wartime radio transmissions more secure from eavesdropping and defend radio-guided torpedoes from jamming. Lamarr and Antheil spent months designing a system of synchronized switching -- based on player piano rolls -- between 88 different frequencies, and submitted it to the National Inventor's Council, a federal wartime agency overseen by <a href="/people/976/000115631/">Charles F. Kettering</a>. Kettering was enthusiastic about the idea, but Navy officials deemed it too technically daunting. Technology similar to what Lamarr and Antheil described was later developed for the military, and first used successfully (without piano rolls) in 1962, three years after Lamarr's patent had expired. The concept is also used in wireless internet transmission and cellular phones. <hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1">[1] Born Jewish. Father: Emil Kiesler (banker) Mother: Gertrud Lichtwitz Husband: Fritz Mandl (munitions manufacturer, arranged marriage, m. 10-Aug-1933, div. 1937) Husband: Gene Markey (writer and producer, m. 5-Mar-1939, div. 1940) Husband: <a href="/people/776/000134374/">John Loder</a> (actor, m. 27-May-1943, div. 17-Jul-1947) Daughter: Denise Loder Deluca (b. 29-May-1945) Son: Anthony Loder (b. 1-Mar-1947) Son: James Lamarr (b. 1939, adopted) Husband: Teddy Stauffer (m. 1951, div. 1952) Husband: W. Howard Lee (m. Dec-1953, div. 1960) Husband: Lewis J. Boies (m. 4-Mar-1963, div. 21-Jun-1965) Boyfriend: <a href="/people/881/000118527/">Jorge Guinle</a> (d. 2004) Slept with: <a href="/people/197/000025122/">Adolf Hitler</a> (c. 1934, per 2008 biography)     High School: Vienna, Austria     <a href="/company/327/000044195/">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a>     <a href="/honors/856/000170346/">EFF Pioneer Award</a> 1997     <a href="/honors/312/000044180/">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> 6247 Hollywood Blvd (motion pictures)     Endorsement of <a href="/company/822/000124450/">Liggett Group</a> Chesterfield cigarettes     <a href="/crime/297/000043168/">Shoplifting</a> Los Angeles, CA Jan-1966, acquitted     <a href="/crime/297/000043168/">Shoplifting</a> Casselberry, FL Aug-1991, guilty, one year probation     <a href="/event/582/000051429/">Naturalized US Citizen</a>     <a href="/lists/385/000047244/">Austrian Ancestry</a> Paternal     <a href="/lists/352/000044220/">Hungarian Ancestry</a> Maternal     <a href="/lists/481/000045346/">Jewish Ancestry</a>     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/778/000064586/">Smoking</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/670/000122304/">The Female Animal (22-Jan-1958)</a>     <a href="/films/443/000090173/">The Story of Mankind (8-Nov-1957)</a> · Joan of Arc     <a href="/films/549/000041426/">My Favorite Spy (17-Dec-1951)</a> · Lily Dalbray     <a href="/films/664/000243932/">Copper Canyon (22-Sep-1950)</a>     <a href="/films/800/000173281/">A Lady Without Passport (3-Aug-1950)</a> · Marianne Lorress     <a href="/films/118/000064923/">Samson and Delilah (31-Oct-1949)</a> · Delilah     <a href="/films/818/000258044/">Let's Live a Little (9-Dec-1948)</a>     <a href="/films/218/000208591/">Dishonored Lady (16-May-1947)</a> · Madeleine Damien     <a href="/films/973/000204361/">The Strange Woman (25-Oct-1946)</a>     <a href="/films/417/000085162/">Her Highness and the Bellboy (11-Jul-1945)</a> · Princess Veronica     <a href="/films/793/000089526/">Experiment Perilous (18-Dec-1944)</a> · Allida Bederaux     <a href="/films/460/000092184/">The Conspirators (17-Oct-1944)</a> · Irene Von Mohr     <a href="/films/519/000074297/">The Heavenly Body (29-Dec-1943)</a> · Vicky Whitley     <a href="/films/660/000074438/">Crossroads (23-Jul-1942)</a> · Lucienne Talbot     <a href="/films/881/000037770/">Tortilla Flat (21-May-1942)</a> · Dolores Sweets Ramirez     <a href="/films/870/000170360/">White Cargo (1942)</a> · Tondelayo     <a href="/films/851/000089584/">H.M. Pulham, Esq. (3-Dec-1941)</a> · Marvin Myles     <a href="/films/857/000037746/">Ziegfeld Girl (25-Apr-1941)</a> · Sandra Kolter     <a href="/films/923/000079686/">Come Live With Me (29-Jan-1941)</a> · Johnny Jones     <a href="/films/969/000079732/">Comrade X (13-Dec-1940)</a> · Theodore     <a href="/films/193/000067989/">Boom Town (30-Aug-1940)</a> · Karen Vanmeer     <a href="/films/861/000037750/">I Take This Woman (2-Feb-1940)</a> · Georgi Gragore     <a href="/films/760/000257986/">Lady of the Tropics (11-Aug-1939)</a> · Manon DeVargnes     <a href="/films/933/000037822/">Algiers (28-Jun-1938)</a> · Gaby     <a href="/films/562/000167061/">Ecstasy (20-Jan-1933)</a> Official Website: <a href="http://www.hedylamarr.com/" target=_blank>http://www.hedylamarr.com/</a> Author of books: Ecstasy and Me: My Life as A Woman (<tt>1966</tt>, memoir) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=44138"><img src="/woman.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=44138">Hedy Lamarr</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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Hedy Lamarr