Hedy Lamarr

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
1913 - 2000 (natural causes)
Austrian born Vienna

Nickname The Most Beautiful Woman In Films . Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) . The woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, and was a student of theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin. She began her career in 1930 in Czech and German films. It was the Czech production Ekstase (1933), in which she caused an international sensation by appearing nude and simulating orgasm, that brought her worldwide attention. The resulting notoriety got her called to Hollywood, and she was signed by MGM. The studio changed her name to the more elegant "Hedy Lamarr" and put her in a series of exotic adventure epics such as Algiers (1938) and White Cargo (1942). Her biggest success was in Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular Samson and Delilah (1949) as the title temptress, but her career declined from that point as her looks began to fade and a new crop of beauties supplanted her. She left the screen in 1957. Spouse Lewis J. Boies (4 March 1963 - 21 June 1965) (divorced; separated 15 October 1964), W. Howard Lee (22 December 1953 - 1960) (divorced), Teddy Stauffer (12 June 1951 - 1952) (divorced), John Loder (27 May 1943 - 17 July 1947) (divorced) 2 children, Gene Markey (5 March 1939 - 3 October 1941) (divorced) 1 child, Fritz Mandl (10 August 1933 - 1937) (divorced).

"Pantomime Quiz" (1962) , The Female Animal (1958) , The Story of Mankind (1957) , "Zane Grey Theater" (1957) , "Shower of Stars" (1957) , Amante di Paride, L' (1954) , Eterna femmina, L' (1954) , My Favorite Spy (1951) , Copper Canyon (1950) , A Lady Without Passport (1950) , Samson and Delilah (1949) , Let's Live a Little (1948) , Dishonored Lady (1947) , The Strange Woman (1946) , Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) , Experiment Perilous (1944) , The Conspirators (1944) , The Heavenly Body (1944) , White Cargo (1942) , Crossroads (1942) , Tortilla Flat (1942) , H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) , Ziegfeld Girl (1941) , Come Live with Me (1941) , Comrade X (1940) , Boom Town (1940) , I Take This Woman (1940) , Lady of the Tropics (1939) , Algiers (1938) , Ekstase (1933) , Man braucht kein Geld (1932) , Koffer des Herrn O.F., Die (1931) , Blumenfrau von Lindenau, Die (1931) , Geld auf der Straße (1930)