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Hedy Lamarr: Life
Lamarr was born
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria and died in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
While married to her first husband, Fritz Mandl, an arms manufacturer, she socialized with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. She also became educated technically in his trade. Mandl was obsessed with his wife and never let her out of his sight. She hated him and his Nazi friends and finally escaped to London by drugging him.
She met Louis B. Mayer of MGM in London. He hired her and changed her name to
Hedy Lamarr, the surname in homage to a famously beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara LaMarr. She had already appeared in several European films, including Ecstasy, in which she played a love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband. Closeups of her face in passion, and long shots of her running naked through the woods, gave the film notoriety.
She was also known as the "Laurence Olivier of Orgasm".
In Hollywood, she appeared in many films, usually cast as glamorous and seductive, including White Cargo
and Tortilla Flat (both 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Her biggest success came in
Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) with
Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.
Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States on April 10, 1953.
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