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Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
Ecstasy (Czech: Extase; French: Extase; ‹See Tfd› German: Ekstase) is a 1933 Czech erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. [2] Machatý won the award for Best Director for this film at the 1934 Venice Film Festival. The film is about a young woman ...
Box office. $1.2 million [1] 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 ...
Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926.
In May 1951, British moviegoers voted Hedy Lamarr's Delilah the tenth "best screen performance by an actress." [62] In June 1952, Samson and Delilah won the Film français Grand Prix for Best Foreign Film of 1951. [63] [64] Presented to DeMille, the Grand Prix is a small bronze replica of the Winged Victory of Samothrace displayed at the Louvre ...
Crossroads. (1942 film) Crossroads is a 1942 American mystery film noir directed by Jack Conway and starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone. Powell plays a diplomat whose amnesia about his past subjects him to back-to-back blackmail schemes, which threaten his reputation, job, marriage, and future. [2]
82 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. 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.
Blazing Saddles. Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4][5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.