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Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, [5] the only child of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (née Lichtwitz) and Emil Kiesler.. Her father was born to a Galician-Jewish family in Lemberg in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austrian Empire (now Lviv in Ukraine) and was, in the 1920s, deputy director of Wiener Bankverein, [6] [7] and in the end of his life a ...
The film was made by Sascha Film, Austria's largest production company, at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. [1] It was the first sound film made in Austria, facilitated by an agreement made with the German firm Tobis Film who supplied the sound recording equipment. The story was adapted from a play by Rudolf Bernauer.
[citation needed] Kiesler would later become known as Hedy Lamarr and became a major star in Hollywood. Herta Mandl (née Wrany; born 1911, Steiermark – unknown date of death). [citation needed] (The LaVoz article suggests she was also known as Schneider, and was with him in Buenos Aires in 1938. [2]) They married in 1939 and divorced in 1951.
Hedy Lamarr, who would've turned 101 on Nov. 9, started out as an actress in Vienna, Austria. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen Karl Merkatz (1930–2022), actor (most notable for his role as a Viennese in "Mundl") Birgit Minichmayr (born 1977), actress
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-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 ...
It is notable, in part, for the small role played by Hedy Lamarr in her second film. The film's art direction was by Hans Jacoby. It premiered in Vienna on 13 March 1931, coinciding with the opening of the Sascha-Filmpalast cinema. [1] The film was remade in 1960.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (referred to onscreen as simply Bombshell) is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed, written and co-edited by Alexandra Dean, about the life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. It had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival [2] and released theatrically on November 24, 2017. [3]