HEDY LAMARR ,AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1914,NOVEMBER 9
HEDY LAMARR ,AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1914,NOVEMBER 9 Hedy Lamarr (/ˈhɛdi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000)[a] was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor.[1] After an early and brief film career in Czechoslovakia that included the controversial film Ecstasy (1933 – in which Lamarr is very briefly seen swimming in the nude and running naked), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.[2] Lamarr appeared in numerous popular feature films, including Algiers (1938), I Take This Woman (1940), Comrade X (1940), Come Live With Me (1941), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and Samson and Delilah (1949).[3] At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes,...