Lamarr fled to the United States and signed a contract with MGM under the name Hedy Lamarr. She became an immediate box office sensation upon releasing her first American film Algiers co-starring ...

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914, Hedy Lemar fled Fascist Austria-Hungary to pursue a career on the big screen during Hollywood’s Golden Age. After signing with MGM, she went on to impress ...

Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, is the daughter of a Ukrainian Jewish father and a mother from an upper-class Jewish family in Budapest, though her mother said she converted to Catholicism.

Lamarr had faded from fashion by the time Cecil B. de Mille chose her to play the most famous femme fatale of all in "Samson and Delilah" (1949), the biggest box office hit of her career.

New: Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood star, but she was also an inventor who helped lay the foundations for GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. Previously on Untold Legends: Ora Washington.

Biblical epic starring Victor Mature as the superhuman but doomed Samson and Hedy Lamarr as Delilah, the beautiful but disloyal woman who plots his downfall. (1949) (123 mins) ...

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