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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 ...
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]
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman is the alleged tell-all style autobiography of Austrian-born actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, ghostwritten by Leo Guild and Cy Rice and first published in 1966. The book spent four weeks at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1966. [1]
Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna in 1914, was an actress and inventor. In 1937, Lamarr escaped her controlling husband and Austria and moved around Europe before crossing over to the United States.
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 ...
Some of those stories include Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born actor who, along with being an accomplished film star, helped invent a groundbreaking radio technology to fight German submarines ...
In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who had been married to actress Hedy Lamarr since 1953. Lee and Lamarr divorced in 1960 after a long battle over alimony. [28] Lee and Tierney married in Aspen, Colorado, on July 11, 1960. They lived quietly in Houston, Texas, and Delray Beach, Florida [16] until his death in 1981. [28]
[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.