Hedy Lamarr

DeMille is said to have gathered the 1900 peacock feathers that Lamarr wore on her 18-foot-train dress in the 1949 movie Samson and Delilah himself, having chased molting peacocks on his ranch for the previous 10 years until he had collected enough feathers to have the garment made. MacLaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1615 Vine Street. According to accounts in film histories, Cecil B. She was named after Shirley Temple. Lamarr later sued the publisher claiming that many of the anecdotes were fabricated by the ghost writer. In political circles, MacLaine is known for her close friendship with Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich, a candidate for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. While her husband searched the brothel, a customer entered the room and she had sex with the man so she could remain hidden. She was finally successful in escaping when she hired a new maid that looked like herself, drugged her and used the maid's uniform as a disguise to escape. In 1975, she received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir.

In one story presented in her autobiography, Ecstacy and Me, once while running from Mandl she slipped into a brothel and hid in an empty room. She stayed busy over the next several years, garnering an Academy Award nomination in 1960 for The Apartment. They were divorced after Lamarr claimed he had threatened her with a baseball bat. Her first film was the Alfred Hitchcock black comedy The Trouble With Harry in 1955. Boies (1920-), a lawyer, married 1963-65. Wallis was in the audience, took note of MacLaine, and signed her to go to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures. (6) Lewis J. A few months thereafter, with Haney still out of commission, director/producer Hal B.

In 1960, he married film star Gene Tierney. She achieved her goal when she became understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game; Haney broke her ankle and MacLaine replaced her. Howard Lee (1909-1981), a Texas oilman, married 1953-60. Upon graduating from high school, MacLaine moved to New York City to live out her dream of being a Broadway actress. (5) W. She is the sister of actor/director Warren Beatty (Beatty changed his name from Beaty to Beatty). He was married in 1955 to Anne Nekel Brown. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs as well as her Hollywood career.

(4) Ernest "Ted" Stauffer, nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader, married 1951-52. Shirley MacLaine, born Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia), is an American actress, well-known not only for her acting but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. NOTE 3: Anthony Loder is the owner of Phone USA, a cellular-phone store in Los Angeles. 1959 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Some Came Running. NOTE 2: A former Nordstrom employee, Denise Loder, now known as Denise Loder DeLuca, lives in Seattle. 1961 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Apartment. Loder is married to the former Ona Minor and has four children, all of whom carry Lamarr as their middle name: Timothy, Ronald, Nadine, and Susan. 1964 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Irma la Douce.

He later dropped his suit against the estate in exchange for a lump-sum payment of $50,000. 1976 - Nominated Best Documentary, Features - The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. Now a riverboat casino guard, James Lamarr Loder later challenged Hedy Lamarr's will in 2000, which did not mention him. 1978 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Turning Point. NOTE 1: Loder adopted James Lamarr Markey and gave him his surname. 1984 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - Terms of Endearment. He also had a son and a daughter by his first two marriages to Sophie Kabel and Micheline Cheirel.

In 1949, Loder married Evelyn Auffmordt (née Carolan), and in 1958, he married Alba Julia Lagomarsino. (3) John Loder (né John Muir Lowe, 1899-1989), actor, married 1943-47; two children: Anthony Loder (1947-) and Denise Loder (1945-). Previously married to the actress Joan Bennett (whose daughter, Diane Bennett Fox, he adopted and gave his surname) and father of their daughter Melinda, Markey later married Lucille Wright (née Parker), the owner of Calumet Farms, the thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky. When Lamarr and Markey divorced -- she claimed they had only spent four evenings alone together in their marriage -- the judge advised her to get to know any future husband more than the four weeks she had known Markey.

(2) Gene Markey (died 1980), screenwriter and producer, married 1939-41; son (adopted), James Lamarr Markey (1939-). He also founded a new company, an airplane factory called Industria Metalurgica y Plastica Argentina and served a prison sentence. He also become an advisor to Juan Peron and a film producer whose leading ladies included the future Eva Peron. In 1938, when his property was seized by the Austrian government, Mandl, a Nazi sympathizer who had become close to Prince Ernst Ruediger von Stahremberg, the deposed Fascist Austrian Vice-Chancellor, fled to Brazil and later Argentina, where he became a citizen and remarried.

(1) Friedrich (Fritz) Mandl (1900-), married 1933-37; chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. The actress was married to:. She once raised $7,000,000 at one event. Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but was told she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell war bonds.

Neither Lamarr nor Antheil made any money from the patent. The patent was little-known until recently because Lamarr applied for it under her then-married name of Hedy Kiesler Markey. Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.

Her biggest success came in Cecil B. 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. Closeups of her face in passion, and long shots of her running naked through the woods, gave the film notoriety. She had already appeared in several European films, including Ecstasy, in which she played a love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband.

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. Mayer of MGM in London. She met Louis B. She hated him and his Nazi friends and finally escaped to London by drugging him.

She also became educated technically in his trade. Mandl was obsessed with his wife and never let her out of his sight. While married to her first husband, Fritz Mandl, an arms manufacturer, she socialized with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria and died in Altamonte Springs, Florida. She was known as The Most Beautiful Woman In Films and also as the inventor of the first form of spread spectrum.

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913–January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." — Hedy Lamarr. "Any girl can be glamorous.