Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor. She was born in 1914 in Vienna to a wealthy Jewish family. As a young woman, she began acting in films and became famous for her controversial role in Ecstasy where she performed the first nude scene in a mainstream film. She later escaped an abusive marriage and fled to America where she had a successful film career but also studied engineering. In the 1940s, she co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping which laid the foundation for modern Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular networks. She spent her later life in poverty despite the importance of her invention. Hedy Lamarr lived a remarkable life as both an actress and inventor
2. HER FAMILY
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born the 9th of
November,1996 in Vienna(Austria) Emil Kiesler´s
daughter , a headmaster Of a bank in Vienna and kiesler
Gertrude, a soloist of piano, both were Jewish . After her
birth, her parents decided not to have more children and
her mother Gertrude(Tilly), gave up her degree of soloist
of piano to spend more time with her daughter. And her
father was busy as headmaster of the bank but HE spent
time with her to do some travels around the world. Her
family was very rich.
3. HER CHILDHOOD
Hedy started her studies with 4 years old .She
had private teachers who taught her some
languages, to speak and to write correctly English,
French, German and Italian. She had piano and
ballet classes. Since sHe was a child, Hedy stood
out because of her intelligent, her teachers said
and thought that she was exceptionally gifted.
5. HER BEGINNINGSShe started to study engineering with 16
years old, but 3 years later she left her studies
and she began to work in a theatre in Berlin
as an actress, with the famous director Max
Reinhardt. Soon ,Hedy developed a big
passion for the theatre but her parents didn´t
know it. She convinced her parents to allow
her to study in Berlin and they said “yes”.
One day, she got a little role in a theatre, in a
6. HER FIRST ACTS
In Vienna, she continued her degree as an actress,
appearing for the first time in the cinema with “Geld auf der
Strasse (1930)”.Her role was of a young girl in a night club.
She worked in a lot of theatre productions in Vienna which
had good critics. During the years 1931-1932,Hedy took part
in some films like :”Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau (1931)”,
“Die des Herrn DE Koffer (1931)”.However it was 1933 the
most important year in her career When she was 18,she met
Gustav Machaty, a cinema director, which produced the most
polemic film in her life: Ecstasy.
7. ACTRESSShe was the first actress which was completely
naked in a commercial film and she played an
orgasm on the screen. That orgasm scene made
her very famous. It was in Ecstasy shot in Praga
in 1932, when she was 18.
That film was isolated from the cinema. Her
father forced her to marry Fritz Mandl, one of
the richest men in the world. He had a factory
that made material for the war. He was a pronazi
German. Hedy was married against her will.
8.
9. ECSTASY
The Ecstasy´s shooting included a
sequence where Hedy was naked walking
through the forest for ten minutes. The
director promised her that the cameras
would take her away. Hedwig Kiesler
accepted after some hesitation, but
her naked body was seen in the
cinema. In the part of the orgasm,
10.
11. DID YOU KNOW..?After her wedding, her husband tried to
get all the copies of the film.
He was very jealous, he obliged Hedy to
go with him and with the elite nazy to all
his parties. She said that this part of her
life was like slavery. She was enclosed in
her home, she could only have a shower
with him. When she didn´t go with him to
the parties he tied her to the bed like a
12.
13. SPY AND INVENTORDuring the years that her seclusion lasted,
she took advantage of it and she decided to
resume her studies of engineering. She went
with her husband to meetings, trips which
considered new technologies for arms. She
invented a formula called “Expand spectrum”
which was a commutation technique using
radio frequencies.
This invention of Hedy Lamarr and George
Anthail (her composer friend) was registered
in 1940.It made possible the transmission of
14.
15. ESCAPEHedy managed to
escape from her
kidnapping. She had to
seduce and to sleep with
the servant that looked
after her, who helped
her to escape from the
palace while her husband
was in a trip. She
arrived to Paris by car,
with only one dress,
16. VIA OF ESCAPEShe hid out until she arrived to London, there
she met and seduced the producer Louis B.
Mayer, with him she went to New York, by the
ship “Normandie”. Louis protected her and
changed her into a star. She managed to get down
from the ship with a contract with him. Both
decided to change the name of the actress, they
took the surname of another actress, Barbara
Lamarr.
17. SOME FILMS
She resumed her career as an actress,
but he didn´t had luck to choose banners,
she rejected the role of protagonist in
some films like “Casablanca”. She worked
in lots of films like: ”My favourite·
spy”But the banner for which she will
always be remembered is Dalila in
“Sanson and Dalila”, filmed in 1949. She
spent more than 17 years on the big
screen while she was studying
18. FILMOGRAPHY“Entertaining the Troops” (1989)
“That’s Action” (1977)
“The Love Goddesses” (1965)
“The Female Animal” (1957)
“The Story of Mankind” (1957)
“I Cavalieri dell’illusione” (1954)
“L’Amante di Paride” (1953)
“My Favorite Spy” (1951)
“Copper Canyon” (1950)
“A Lady Without Passport” (1950)
“Samson and Dalilah” (1949)
“Let’s Live a Little” (1948)
“Dishonored Lady” (1947)
“The Strange Woman” (1946)
“Her Highness and the Bellboy”
(1945)
“Experiment Perilous” (1944)
“The Heavenly Body” (1943)
“Show Business at War” (1943)
“Tortilla Flat” (1942)
“Crossroads” (1942)
“White Cargo” (1942)
“Come Live with Me” (1941)
“Ziegfeld Girl” (1941)
“H.M. Pulham, Esq.” (1941)
“Boom Town” (1940)
“Comrade X” (1940)
“The Miracle of Sound” (1940)
“I Take This Woman” (1939)
“Lady of the Tropics” (1939)
“Algiers” (1938)
“Ecstasy” (1932)
“Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.” (1931)
“Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau” (1931)
“Man braucht kein Geld” (1931)
“Geld auf der Straße” (1930)
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20. FAMOUS SENTENCES
“I have to stop marrying men that
felt inferior to me. Somewhere
there should be a man that could
be my husband and wouldn't feel
inferior to me. I need an inferior
superior man.”
21. HER LIFE
She got married 6 times. She had 3 sons
and lots of female and male lovers. Men felt
attraction for her looks and not for her
talents, that went further than her looks.
Although she hated him, she always
remembered until her dead that Hitler was
the only one that kissed her with care.
22. DID YOU KNOW..?
Kleptomania took her some times to
jail. She had all the millionaires in
the world on her feet , but she
couldn’t help stealing a toothbrush in
a department store .
23. 1997In 1997, the electric frontier
foundation gave her an award for her
invention and this year she got the
award “Bulbie” (3 years before her
dead) and she was the first woman
that received it by the inventors’
society. Hedy didn´t go to receive it
because at that time she didn´t
appear in public, but when she learn
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25. HER END
She died with 85 years old in Florida in
19/1/2000.Her son moved her ashes to Vienna
like she wanted.
She was alone in her last years and she died poor.
Her son said:
“If USA had paid her all the fees for her
invention, Hedy Lamarr would have become the
most billionaire woman of the universe, more than
Bill Gates.”
26. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
“The most beautiful woman
of Europe”, AS the
filmmaker Max Reinhardt
baptizeD her originally in
1931. She was portrayed in
biography books for her
trajectory in cinema, having
made between 30 and 40
films between 1931 and
1989 and it included details
of her six marriages.
27. FAMOUS SENTENCES
“My problem is that I am too good, the
most horrible bitches are famous.I did
what I did for love. The others did it
for money”
28. WOMEN AT THAT TIME
In 17/7/1919 Rogelio Araya presented a project that showed the
inequality of the women at that time and the chauvinism of society.
This way they could look for some solutions to secure happiness in
the house and social tranquility .
One year Carlos F. carried out a project of the Reform of the
building code that affected the condition of single or married
women.
This project was approved by the Senate, this recognized the
equality of the capacities to practice between men, Single and
married women. The married ones had more privileges.
29. CONCLUSIONShe was a woman that did bad in her marriage but
she knew how to carry out a plan to escape. She
was a famous actress of Hollywood. She invented a
secret communication system and she was a secret
spy. She showed her courage and strength no
matter the time and all that she had gone through.
It was admirable all that she did and she was also
very pretty. Now, we know her so we admire her
and we think that she is an example to follow.
