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The Strange Woman is an American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Hedy Lamarr, and released by United Artists. The film is now in the public domain.
Cast * Hedy Lamarr as Jenny Hager * George Sanders as John Evered * Louis Hayward as Ephraim Poster * Gene Lockhart as Isaiah Poster * Hillary Brooke as Meg Saladine * Rhys Williams as Deacon Adams * June Storey as Lena Tempest * Moroni Olsen as Rev. Thatcher * Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Hollis * Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Partridge * Alan Napier as Judge Henry Saladine * Dennis Hoey as Tim Hager
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Produced by Jack Chertok (producer)
Hedy Lamarr (executive producer)
Eugen Schüfftan (producer)
Hunt Stromberg (executive producer)
Written by Ben Ames Williams (novel)
Herb Meadow (screenplay)
Hunt Stromberg (writer)
Edgar G. Ulmer (writer)
Starring Hedy Lamarr
Music by Carmen Dragon
Cinematography Lucien N. Andriot
Editing by John M. Foley
Richard G. Wray
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) 25 October 1946
Running time 100 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 -- January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her celebrity in a film career as a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age", Lamarr was a scientist, inventor and mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications, a key to many forms of wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
First she went to Paris, then met Louis B. Mayer in London. After he hired her, at his insistence, she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from a drug overdose.
In Hollywood, she was usually cast as glamorous and seductive. Her American debut was in Algiers (1938). Her many films include Boom Town (1940), White Cargo (1942), and Tortilla Flat (1942). Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her most famous film quote, "Tondelayo make tiffin". In 1941, she was cast alongside two other Hollywood beauties, Lana Turner and Judy Garland in the musical extravaganza Ziegfeld Girl.
She made 18 films from 1940 to 1949 even though she had two children during that time (in 1945 and 1947). She left MGM in 1945; Lamarr enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn opposite Bob Hope in My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic The Story of Mankind (1957).
The publication of her autobiography Ecstasy and Me (1967) took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after Andy Warhol's short film Hedy (1966), also known as The Shoplifter. The controversy surrounding the shoplifting charges coincided with a failed return to the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (1966). The role was ultimately filled by Zsa Zsa Gabor. Ecstasy and Me begins in a despondent mood, with reference to this: On a recent evening, sitting home alone suffering and brooding about my treatment at the police station because of an incident in a department store, and being replaced by Zsa Zsa Gabor in a motion picture (imagine how that pleased the ego!) I figured out that I had made -- and spent -- some thirty million dollars. Yet earlier that day I had been unable to pay for a sandwich at Schwab's drug-store.
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The North Star: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, and Walter Brennan (1943 Movie)by nologorecords138,970 views
This is so strange, i searched my name "rhys dennis" to find the description in the video with a person named kathleen..who is my grandmother and a person called alan..my father....................strangeeee
joesatriani1200rulez 1 month ago
De la novela de Ben Ames Williams "Una mujer extraña". Ya quiero verla completita.
emersoul 1 month ago
the most gorgeous anybody ever was..sublime performance..i absolutely love this!!
theblueangel28 3 months ago
@35westst that is not correct! Hedy Lamarr co-invented and held the patent for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum devise. It serves as the base technology for wi-fi and was used heavily by the US military during the Cold War.
marjy18 4 months ago
You are mistaken. The story of her "inventing" the aiming device is a myth. She "made some suggestions" period.
35westst 6 months ago
Not sure why, but I get the feeling Hedy was playing a part very close to who she was in real life.
gmaureen 10 months ago
indeed a strange lady: not only stupendously a knockout, but also had a few gray cells upstairs: unless mistaken, she is the only hollywood star ever to own a patent, and what a patent. you cant make this stuff up.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
This was the first of two independent productions that Hedy Lamarr co-produced and starred in (and probably one of her best film performances). Her co-producer, Jack Chertok, later went into TV production, filming "THE LONE RANGER" for George W. Trendle from 1949 through '53, as well as producing Ann Sothern's "PRIVATE SECRETARY" (1953-'57), "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN" (1963-'66) and 'MY LIVING DOLL" (1964-'65).
fromthesidelines 1 year ago