The Official Website of Hedy Lamarr
At the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF), we’ve honored more than 550 Inductees, and Hedy Lamarr is among our most notable. In fact, two new children’s books about Lamarr were released just last month: “Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend […]
Brilliant bombshell Hedy Lamarr, the Austria-born Hollywood hottie who carved out a concurrent career as a pioneer of weapons and communication technology in World War II, died on this day in history, Jan. 19, 2000. She was 85 years old. Lamarr was […]
On behalf of the Hedy Lamar Estate, CMG Worldwide is pleased to announce the donation of Ms. Lamar’s personal journal to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Among other inventions and personal entries, the journal features Ms. Lamar’s […]
The Hollywood screen legend Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Kiesler, the only child of wealthy, assimilated Jewish parents in Vienna. She grew up imbibing the city’s brilliant cultural life and decadent sophistication. At eighteen, she became notorious for flitting across […]
Lamarr was a gifted inventor as well as a screen siren—though you wouldn’t know it from Ecstasy and Me, the torrid “autobiography” that ruined her life. I’ve never been satisfied. I’ve no sooner done one thing than I am seething inside me […]
“The brains of people are more interesting than the looks I think,” Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr said in 1990, 10 years before she passed. The striking movie star may be most well-known for her roles in the 1940s […]