Hedy Lamarr
Birthday: 1914-11-09 | Place of Birth: Vienna, AustriaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-American actress known primarily for her extraordinary beauty and her celebrity in a film career as a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age". However, Lamarr was also an inventor and mathematician who co-invented -- with composer George Antheil -- an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hedy Lamarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Known For
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
My Favorite Spy
Copper Canyon
A Lady Without Passport
Samson and Delilah
Acting
