Hedy Lamarr

One of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen, Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna in 1914. Hedy was also a talented scientist who developed a spread spectrum technique now used in wireless communication today. Shown here are scenes from Ecstasy (1933), Algiers (1938), Comrade X (1940) Come Live With Me (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), The Heavenly Body (1941), The Conspirators (1944), The Strange Woman (1946), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Love of Three Queens (1954). Songs included excerpts from Vienna - City of My Dreams and also Hey There Delilah (Plain White T's)...obviously I chose since they match Hedy's birthplace and her most succcessful box office hit, Samson and Delilah. I thank An for some clips :) and Claudia for her ideas :)

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Hey
• There
• Delilah
• Hedy
• Lamarr
• Ecstasy
• Algiers
• Samson
• and
• Ziegfeld
• Girl
• Comrade
• Vienna
• Come
• Live
• With
• Me
• Clark
• Gable
• Jimmy
• Stewart

[ZZTopRockman]

I can't believe I didn't notice this before! Thanks for posting as a response, really lovely. I thought 'Hey There Delilah' would sound weird but it really works, she played some lovely sympathetic characters too :) I need to get more of her films, what are the movies at 1:22, 3:13 & 3:30 please?

[cloudidogz]

@ZZTopRockman

Hi Bonnie! 1:22 Come Live With Me, 3:13 The Conspirators, 3:30 Comrade X.

I don't have The Conspirators but An sent me clips. You can find her on youtube

at annpham.

[noel888]

I read sometime ago that she was at one time legally blind for a period of 10 years and had eye implants...also, due to some trauma in her life, she lost all her hair...wow, its like fate saying to her your too beautiful and this is the other end of the spectrum...must have happened after this was filmed.

[cloudidogz]

@noel888 Sorry, I know nothing about this...maybe you have her confused with Samson...in the movie, she cut off his hair and he got blinded.

[Gertrudia09]

Love the song w/the guitar. What song is this & who's singing?

[cloudidogz]

@Gertrudia09 Hi! Song is called: Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's (it's in the description)

[Tauryluck]

I love how you co-ordinated the film of her to be in time with when she switches the radio on. She is an incredibly beautiful actress and looks very much like Vivien Leigh.

[Handiman544]

Life gives some of us so much and is our friend. Then, one day, overnight it seems, life becomes our enemy and takes it all away. It's this journey and how well we handle it that tells others who we really are. To be that beautiful and yet so human and humble. That is true beauty. All this phony stuff today isn't beauty. It's fake and hollow and easily shaken. One hair out of place, one wrinkle and it's all panic. How pathetic. Real beauty is unattainable by most people.

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

@Rtmax45 She was married to a Guy named Howard Lee a Texas oil executive,whom she divorced he then went on to marry Gene Tierney who was more beautiful, in my opinion,they were together until he died A strange thing happened to me while putting together a tribute video to Gene at the very end a still of Hedy somehow got into my tribute yet I did not have any stills of Hedy on my computer.

[amentia666]

She wasn't born in 1914, she was born on the 9th of November 1913, only 4 days after her "double", Vivien Leigh. It's sometimes very hard to see who's who of the two.

[JoanCollins2009]

@noel888

and she was found to be shoplifting eye drops and constipation pills Joan Collins in a fan x

[thoserubyslippers]

I love this tribute!

[Rtmax45]

Near the end of her life, she was legally blind. So, I was wrong. After doing more research into her life, I found this information. Now legally blind is not the same as totally blind. My grandfather was also legally blind, when he was in is 80's. He could see images, but they were very blurred. When I told him who I was, then he knew who he was talking to. Her ashes were scattered in Wienerwald Forest at a place called at heaven.