“When they called her up to tell her she would get the award her first words were, Hedy Lamarr being Hedy Lamarr,”
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Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.
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science · Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914–2000) · inventor · autobiographer · screenwriter · film actor · film producer · musician · model · entertainer · actor · also Hedy Lamarr, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Hedwig Mandl, Hedy Kiesler Markey, Hedy Lee, Hedy Kiesler
Born 9 November 1914 · Died 19 January 2000 · Q49034
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If they try to jam one particular frequency, it might hit that frequency on one of its hops, but it would only be there for a fraction of a second.
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2026· 6 entries
“If they try to jam one particular frequency, it might hit that frequency on one of its hops, but it would only be there for a fraction of a second.”
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“Her idea of a good evening was a quiet dinner party with some intelligent friends where they could discuss ideas — which sounds so un-Hollywood, but Hedy had to find something else to do to occupy her time.”
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“Within a year, with the appearance of her in the film Algiers opposite Charles Boyer, she was a superstar.”
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“Clark Gable, so warm and friendly to the insecure actress … Claudette Colbert, such a lady to me, although much higher in the MGM pecking order.”
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HELLO! Magazine: Meet Golden Age star Hedy Lamarr's three children - including one who followed her into showbiz
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: Where to Watch & Stream Online
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2022· 2 entries
Newsweek: Who Was Hedy Lamarr? Johnny Depp Releases New Song About Fame
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Sportskeeda: Who is Hedy Lamarr? Johnny Depp posts cryptic image of late actress on Instagram prior to album announcement
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2018· 4 entries
Yahoo: Happy 104th Birthday, Hedy Lamarr: Read Exclusive Excerpt From New Graphic Novel Biography
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People: Who Was Hedy Lamarr? All About the Tragic Film Star and Secret Inventor in Tonight's 'Timeless'
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The Guardian: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story review – startling life of the film star/inventor
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The Guardian: Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Film tells how Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr helped to invent wifi
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People: Glam Actress Hedy Lamarr Was a Secret Inventor for the Military Before Her Tragic Final Years
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2014· 3 entries
Time: LIFE With Hedy Lamarr: Stardom, Scandal and One Amazing Invention
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame for frequency-hopping spread spectrum (2014).
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A memorial to Lamarr was unveiled in Vienna's Central Cemetery
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: If it wasn't for Hedy Lamarr, we wouldn't have Wi-Fi
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2007· 1 entry
Published “X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Board Suzaku” in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan — cited 889 times.
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2000· 3 entries
Lamarr was found dead at her home in Casselberry at the age of 85; the cause of death was heart disease
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Died 2000-01-19.
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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded EFF Award (1997).
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Lamarr received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, helping bring renewed attention to her role as an inventor
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It was featured on boxes of the software suite
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1991· 1 entry
Was arrested on the same charge in Orlando, Florida, this time for stealing $21
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1981· 1 entry
With her eyesight failing, Lamarr retreated from public life and settled in Miami Beach, Florida
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1974· 1 entry
Filed a $10 million lawsuit against Warner Bros
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1971· 1 entry
“Hubba, Hubba Hubba—It's Hedy!”
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1970· 1 entry
“Would You Believe I Was Once A Famous Star? It's the Truth!”
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1966· 1 entry
Lamarr was arrested in Los Angeles for shoplifting
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1965· 1 entry
Lamarr remained unmarried for the last 35 years of her life
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1962· 1 entry
Which was well after World War II and three years after the expiry of the Lamarr–Antheil patent
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1955· 1 entry
“Gee, that means that you didn't see Clark Gable or Walter Pidgeon or Hedy Lamarr. They were all down by the pool”
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1945· 1 entry
Lamarr formed a production company with Jack Chertok and made the thriller The Strange Woman (1946), an adaptation of a novel of the same title by Ben Ames Williams
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1942· 1 entry
Under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey
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1938· 1 entry
And began promoting her as the "world's most beautiful woman"
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1933· 1 entry
Lamarr married Mandl at the Karlskirche
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1914· 2 entries
Born 1914-11-09.
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In Vienna, the only child of Gertrud "Trude" Kiesler (née Lichtwitz) and Emil Kiesler
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