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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 at the end of his life a ...
The Strange Woman is a 1946 American historical melodrama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis Hayward. It is based on the 1941 novel of the same title by Ben Ames Williams. The screenplay was written by Ulmer and Hunt Stromberg. Originally released by United Artists, the film is now in the public ...
Let's Live a Little is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Cummings and Anna Sten.Written by Howard Irving Young, Edmund L. Hartmann, Albert J. Cohen, and Jack Harvey, the film is about an overworked advertising executive who is being pursued romantically by his former fiancée, a successful perfume magnate, who is also the ad ...
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]
Montgomery was briefly engaged at age 25 to Hedy Lamarr, then 27, in 1941. [25] Montgomery and singer Dinah Shore married on December 5, 1943. [26] They had one child, Melissa Ann Montgomery. George and Dinah also adopted a son, John David Montgomery, in 1954. [27] They divorced in 1962. [28]
— Hedy Lamarr. Father-daughter quotes “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” — Linda Poindexter ... “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” — William ...
Shortly afterwards, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their town house (a New York brownstone in the film), cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to ...
The Female Animal is a 1958 American CinemaScope drama film directed by Harry Keller and starring Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling and George Nader. Although she lived until 2000, this was Lamarr's final film in a film career of nearly 30 years.