Ecstasy, Starring Hedy Lamarr Click here for Hedy Lamarr memorabilia, photographs, auctions and related goodies. ECSTASY Hedy Lamarr was one of Hollywood's most beautiful stars of the golden era. "If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination." ...Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr's most infamous nude and "sex" film scenes. Perhaps Hedy Lamarr's most risque scenes of all time appear in a 1933 European film called "Ecstasy" . This film made Lamarr a sensation before she arrived in Hollywood. In this classic "adult film" of the dirty 30's, Lamarr stars as a young woman with the misfortune of having to deal with a less than amorous husband. Ecstasy daringly pushed the borders of what was socially acceptable in the thirties with its nudity and explicit lovemaking scenes. Nude scenes include a very naked Hedy Lamarr cheerfully prancing about, swimming, and running through the woods. The film also shows closeups of Lamarr's convincing face during the lovemaking "sex" scenes.

This was unheard of at the time, and caused quite stir. Hedy Lamarr - Biography - IMDb Hedy Lamarr Biography Showing all 65 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (6) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (34) | Personal Quotes (11) | Salary (3) Overview (5) The Most Beautiful Woman in Films Height 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (2) Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lviv. Her parents were both from Jewish families. Hedwig had a calm childhood, but it was cinema that fascinated her. By the time she was a teenager, she decided to drop out of school and seek fame as an actress, and was a student of theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin.

Her first role was a bit part in the German film Geld auf der Straße (1930) (aka "Money on the Street") in 1930. She was attractive and talented enough to be in three more German productions in 1931, but it would be her fifth film that catapulted her to worldwide fame. In 1932 she appeared in a German film called Ecstasy (1933) (US title: "Ecstasy") and had made the gutsy move to be nude. It's the story of a young girl who is married to a gentleman much older than she, but she winds up falling in love with a young soldier. The film's nude scenes created a sensation all over the world. The scenes, very tame by today's standards, caused the film to be banned by the US government at the time. Hedy soon married Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer and a prominent Austrofascist. He attempted to buy up all the prints of "Ecstasy" he could lay his hands on (Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini , had a copy but refused to sell it to Mandl), but to no avail (there are prints floating around the world today).

The notoriety of the film brought Hollywood to her door. She was brought to the attention of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer , who signed her to a contract (a notorious prude when it came to his studio's films, Mayer signed her against his better judgment, but the money he knew her notoriety would bring in to the studio overrode any moral concerns he may have had). However, he insisted she change her name and make good, wholesome films. Hedy starred in a series of exotic adventure epics. She made her American film debut as Gaby in Algiers (1938). This was followed a year later by Lady of the Tropics (1939). In 1942, she played the plum role of Tondelayo in the classic White Cargo (1942). After World War II, her career began to decline, and MGM decided it would be in the interest of all concerned if her contract were not renewed. Unfortunately for Hedy, she turned down the leads in both The Murder in Thornton Square (1940) and Casablanca (1942), both of which would have cemented her standing in the minds of the American public.

In 1949, she starred as Delilah opposite Victor Mature 's Samson in Cecil B. DeMille 's epic Samson and Delilah (1949). This proved to be Paramount Pictures' then most profitable movie to date, bringing in $12 million in rental from theaters. The film's success led to more parts, but it was not enough to ease her financial crunch. She made only six more films between 1949 and 1957, the last being The Female Animal (1958). Hedy retired to Florida. She died there, in the city of Casselberry, on January 19, 2000. Pale skin and green eyes Voluptuous figure Seductive deep voice Trivia (34) Her inspiration for inventing a radio that broadcast on different frequencies came from watching a player piano paper go around with different holes in the paper. She gave the idea to the US War Department, which led to a radio guiding system for torpedoes that was used in World War II. She had supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, an Austrian industrialist and arms dealer who philosophically and financially supported the Nazis.

He was abusive and brutal to her, and she finally managed to escape him, and Austria, by drugging her maid. Had three children: Anthony Loder (born March 1, 1947), Denise Hedy Loder (born May 29, 1945), James Loder (born March 6, 1939; Hedy's husband John Loder adopted him October 16, 1939 as James Markey Lamarr). Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) by naming a character "Hedley Lamarr". They settled out of court. In April 1998 she sued software company Corel Corp. for using her photo on the cover of its product CorelDRAW. After a screen test, it was Louis B. Mayer who changed her last name to Lamarr in honor of silent film star Barbara La Marr . Arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. Found not guilty. Arrested for shoplifting in 1991. She was found guilty at trial and sentenced to one year of probation.

During her marriage to screenwriter Gene Markey , the two adopted a son, James. She soon after gave birth to two children, Denise Hedy and Antony, while married to actor John Loder . One of the few stars with whom costume designer Edith Head admitted she did not like working. The others were Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard . Was co-inventor (with composer George Antheil ) of the earliest known form of the telecommunications method known as "frequency hopping", which 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. The method received U.S. patent number 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942, under the name "Secret Communications System". Frequency hopping is now widely used in cellular phones and other modern technology. However, neither she nor Antheil profited from this fact, because their patents were allowed to expire decades before the modern wireless boom. She received an award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997 for her pioneering work in spread-spectrum technology.

For her appearance in Ecstasy (1933), she has been credited as being the first nude woman as well as portraying the first sex-scene in film history (scenes were cut and additional ones added in order to be able to release it in some countries). However, she was actually at least 18 years too late to be the first nude woman in film, as both Inspiration (1915) and Lois Weber 's Hypocrites (1915) had beaten her to it. Her profile was the most requested in the 1940s by women to their plastic surgeons. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 337-338. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. The mansion used in The Sound of Music (1965) belonged to her at the time. The first Inventor's Day in Germany was held in her honor on November 9, 2005, on what would have been her 92nd birthday. Became a naturalized US citizen on April 10, 1953. Dr.

Kleiner's pet head-crab "Lamarr" in the computer game Half-Life 2 (2004) is named after her. Was considered for the role of Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), but Ingrid Bergman was cast instead. When Julius Epstein , one of the film's several screenwriters, was trying to "pitch" (explain the plot) to producer David O. Selznick , he started a long, drawn-out summary but finally wrapped up with "Oh, what the hell! It's going to be a lot of shit like Algiers (1938)!", which was one of her starring films. Was cast in the movie Picture Mommy Dead (1966), but fired on February 3, 1966, when she did not show up for the first day of shooting. Was the inspiration for Anne Hathaway 's performance of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Was the inspiration for the DC Comics antiheroine and Batman's love interest, Catwoman. Considered Delilah to be the best performance of her career and Cecil B.

DeMille 's Samson and Delilah (1949) her best film. She was married six times. Although she earned a great deal of money during her career, she lost her fortune with her production company. She died impoverished in Florida in 2000. Her father was a bank director and her mother was a pianist. After an education that included ballet and dancing lessons and learning to speak such languages as English, Italian and Hungarian, she rounded off her apprenticeship by attending a Swiss boarding school. In Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931), she appeared with Peter Lorre . This would be the first of three films they would make together. Her nude and sex scenes in Ecstasy (1933) caused a scandal in Europe at the time. Even Benito Mussolini had a copy of the movie in his private possession. Today these nude scenes looks harmless. When Ecstasy (1933) was showed in the cinemas the name Hedy Kiesler was the talk of the town. However, instead of a great film career, she followed with a marriage to Austrian munitions manufacturer Fritz Mandl.

She retired from the film business at her husband's request and devoted herself to the marriage. Mandl tried to buy up all existing copies of "Extase" but was unsuccessful. The marriage turned out to be a disaster, however--her husband beat her regularly and was an ardent Nazi supporter--and she escaped from the marriage and her home country and fled to England, where she met producer Louis B. Mayer , who changed her name to Hedy Lamarr in honor of silent-screen star Barbara La Marr . She admitted that she made one of her biggest career mistakes when she turned down the leading role in Casablanca (1942). She studied at Max Reinhardt 's theater school at the Deutsches Theater. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz) and Emil Kiesler. Her father was born in Lviv (now in Ukraine) and her mother was born in Budapest, Hungary. Both were from Jewish families. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960. Mother of Anthony Loder and mother-in-law of Roxanne Loder .

Personal Quotes (11) I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere, there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. I need a superior inferior man. My problem is, I'm a hell of a nice dame, The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, I hope to make you use your imagination Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. [1960s] It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country [USA] money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that's why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for Vienna . . . because my home is Vienna and Austria, not America... never! [referring to the EFF award for invention frequency hopping] It's about time. The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.

To be a star is--to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win. I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was "difficult". [on working for Cecil B. DeMille in Samson and Delilah (1949)] I was won over to appearing in the picture from the moment I entered his office and saw the extent of the research that he had done on the whole subject. You have no idea how thorough and comprehensive that research is. He has the first suggestion of a script and treatment down to the final shooting script. He has documents and evidence to support everything he does. Salary (3) Clickautographs autographs - Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr click on the small image to see a larger version Astonishingly beautiful Austrian actress, real name Hedwig Keisler. Lamarr caused a sensation in 1933 when she appeared naked in the Czech film Ecstasy (all the prints of which the first of her six husbands tried to buy up).

Her Hollywood credits include Algiers (1938), Boom Town (1940), Comrade X (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Tortilla Flat (1942), White Cargo (1942), The Heavenly Body (1943), Samson and Delilah (1949), My Favourite Spy (1951) and The Face That Launched A Thousand Ships (1954). Lamarr made an unexpected return before the cameras in 1990 in the obscure low-budget Hollywood satire Instant Karma, in which she was typecast in the role of Movie Goddess. This is a gorgeous original black and white 8" x 10" vintage Clarence Bull promotional photograph for the Clark Gable-Hedy Lamarr film Boom Town (1940). Lamarr has added a signature in blue ink (probably in later years) to a clear area of the image. The signature is just a little light but is entirely legible (the second scan shows this).

Condition generally is excellent BBC News | AMERICAS | Actress Hedy Lamarr dies Thursday, 20 January, 2000, 06:17 GMT Actress Hedy Lamarr dies Hedy Lamarr: "A hell of a nice dame" Actress Hedy Lamarr, who appeared in several Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1950s, has died at her home in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 86. Regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses ever to appear on screen, she caused a sensation in the early 1930s by appearing nude in a 10-minute swimming sequence in the Czechoslovak film, Ecstasy. Lamarr was the first major actress to appear nude on screen It brought the 19-year-old Vienna-born actress - born Hedwig Kiesler - to the attention of an Austrian arms maker, whom she married. But when her possessive husband started working for the Nazis, she drugged a maid who was guarding her and fled to London.

After appearing on the West End stage, she went to Hollywood, where she made a series of films, one of the best-known being Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature. Her new screen name was said to be an homage to the 1920s screen beauty Barabara La Marr. Any girl can be glamorous - all you have to do is stand and look stupid Hedy Lamarr She also appeared in Tortilla Flat, in which she played a part-Mexican woman; White Cargo, playing the slave woman Tondelayo; and Lady of the Tropics. She got a rare chance to try her hand at comedy in My Favorite Spy, a 1951 Bob Hope film. Her career faded in the mid-1950s, when she appeared in some Italian productions. Her last film was The Female Animal with Jane Powell in 1958. Invention Hedy Lamarr's looks were rivalled by her intellect. Developing the knowledge she had acquired from her first husband's arms factories, Hedy Lamarr helped to invent a communications system still used in military satellite operations, as well as mobile phones.

But her communications brainwave, first registered in 1942, wasn't put to practical use until the 1960s, after the patent had run out. Distortions Hedy Lamarr was married and divorced six times and had two children, and one adoptive son. A pair of shoplifting arrests - neither of which resulted in convictions - caused headlines in her later years. Her lurid 1966 autobiography Ecstasy and Me, filled with sexy anecdotes, became a best-seller. But she later sued, saying the manuscript prepared by the ghostwriter was full of distortions and outright errors. By the end of her life she was legally blind and did not venture out on her own. Search BBC News Online Film History of the 1930s Film History of the 1930s 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s Young Stars: In 1933, Twentieth Century Fox signed 5 year-old Shirley Temple.

Much to their financial delight, the studio provided audiences with their pint-sized star radiating optimism and singing and dancing in hits like Stand Up and Cheer (1934), Bright Eyes (1934), Heidi (1937), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and The Little Princess (1939). From 1935 to 1938, Shirley was the number one box-office attraction in the world, out-doing even Gable, Tracy, Robert Taylor, Myrna Loy, Will Rogers, and the dancing team of Astaire/Rogers. She was overtaken in 1939 by another young star, MGM's rascally Mickey Rooney (see more below). Universal's young teen singer-star 15 year old Deanna Durbin made her feature film debut in the musical comedy Three Smart Girls (1936) that gathered up three Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and helped save the studio from bankruptcy. The studio followed with the family 'comedy of errors' sequel - Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939), and a second sequel a few years later, Hers to Hold (1943).

Young star Mickey Rooney appeared only in the supporting cast as a character in the first film featuring the 'Hardy Family' of Carvel (a small, idealized American town) - A Family Affair (1937). The Hardy Family household was led by Judge Hardy played by Lionel Barrymore. After two more films, You're Only Young Once (1937) and Judge Hardy's Children (1937), Rooney's character was spring-boarded to leading man status in the first of the long-running Andy Hardy film series for MGM, beginning with Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). It was the first of the Hardy films to have Andy's name in the title, and it was the fourth of sixteen films stretching over more than two decades (until 1958) that now starred Mickey Rooney (as a well-to-do teen who would often get into trouble). As the major star of the series, Rooney had various young teenage co-stars including Lana Turner and Judy Garland. The same year, Rooney (as a reformed juvenile delinquent) co-starred with Spencer Tracy (as a kindly priest) in the classic MGM drama, Boys' Town (1938).

In 1938, Rooney won one of two Oscars given that year to young stars, the other going to Deanna Durbin. The Dead End Kids: In contrast to the cheerful and effervescent antics of well-to-do teen Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) and co-star Judy Garland, the street punks (or juvenile delinquents) named the Dead End Kids (Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley) were from the other side of the tracks - in NYC's urban tenements and waterfront slums, although they were actually professional actors. The scampish teens were known for their unruly wisecracking, and their toughness (with a soft heart). After their introduction in Dead End (1937), they also appeared in six full-length features for Warner Bros.

from 1938-1939: William Wyler's and Goldwyn's Dead End (1937) - their first film, with Humphrey Bogart (who appeared in three of the Kids' films through 1938); Sidney Kingsley's caustic drama about young hoodlums was translated from the Broadway stage to the screen (with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman), with the stage cast of "Dead End" kids reprising their roles; nominated for four Academy Awards Warner Bros.' Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) - with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as two slum boys who grew up and took very different directions in their lives Crime School (1938) - with the kids in a reform school run by a mean and sadistic superintendent The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939), with Ronald Reagan as a crusading DA They Made Me a Criminal (1939) - well-known choreographer/director Busby Berkeley's second film for MGM Hell's Kitchen (1939) On Dress Parade (1939) - the final entry in the long-running series The Kids also made numerous movies for other studios, evolving into Monogram

 Pictures' The East Side Kids (in 21 pictures), Universal's Little Tough Guys (in 12 movies), and of course, their most famous role as The Bowery Boys (in 48 films).

Adventure Films, Epics, and Westerns: 1920s Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller portrayed a vine-swinging, jungle-calling ape man called Tarzan (the 10th incarnation) in the first of his twelve films as "Lord of the Jungle" in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) , which was then quickly followed with Tarzan and His Mate (1934) . [In the first six of these films, his co-star was the lovely Maureen O'Sullivan.] Adventure films stirred audiences like Best Picture Award winner Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (the first (and best) of three film versions), a commercially-successful film shot on location, brought a merciless Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) into conflict with Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable), producing the popular catch-phrase: 'Mr. Christian - Come here!' The most expensive serial to date, Universal's Flash Gordon (1936), starring Buster Crabbe, premiered its first chapter in 1936.

One film had everything, and was perhaps cinema's most original creation - RKO's spectacular, campy adventure/fantasy film by producer-directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest G. Schoedsack King Kong (1933) , a phenomenal film that raised the bar for special effects for many decades - due to the genius of special effects man Willis H. O'Brien. It utilized stop-motion animation and one of the earliest uses of back-projection, and it was accompanied by Max Steiner's emphatic score. The film, the first to be heavily promoted on the radio, starred Fay Wray as the love interest - an attractive object of the giant ape's desire, held in his clutching hands just before he met his spectacular death in a last stand on top of New York's Empire State Building. The classic, futuristic sci-fi film from British producer Alexander Korda's London Films - Things to Come (1936), envisioned the future from the perspective of the 1930s.

One of the greatest swashbucklers of all-time came in the late 1930s Technicolor adventure film - Warner Bros.' The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) , with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland playing Robin Hood and Maid Marian respectively - it was the costliest film ever made by the studio up to that time. Flynn was also featured in many classic costumed adventure films in the decade, including his star-making role in Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1938), and The Sea Hawk (1940). The western film genre was honored when the panoramic pioneering film Cimarron (1931) won the Best Picture Academy Award - the first and only Oscar RKO Studios ever received. By the late 1930s, Gene Autry became the cinema's most popular cowboy, after appearing and starring in his first B-western feature film, Republic Pictures' Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935). Claudette Colbert starred as the famed Egyptian queen in Cecil B. DeMille's opulent production of Cleopatra (1934) .

Norwegian Olympic skating star Sonja Henie had her film debut in Fox's musical One in a Million (1936). After her discovery at the age of 15 at Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood and her recommendation to director Mervyn LeRoy, young teenaged Lana Turner launched her career with her memorable "tight sweater" debut - a 75-foot tracking shot in Warners' They Won't Forget (1937). Ronald Reagan first appeared in a feature film in 1937, in Warner Bros.' Love Is On the Air (1937). Hedy Lamarr made her American film debut in the late 1930s, co-starring with Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938), following her scandalous nude appearance in the Czech film Ecstasy (1933).

The Hays Production Code: The Hays Office Backed by the Catholic church and their Catholic Legion of Decency (founded in 1934 by a council of Catholic American Bishops), and the Wall Street financiers who supported the studios, former Postmaster General Will Hays headed up Hollywood's self-regulatory Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA) that was founded in 1922. It created the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) in 1927 (under the command of stringent Catholic Joseph Breen), issued a definitive Motion Picture Production Code in March, 1930, and created the Production Code Administration (PCA) (also headed by Breen) in 1934. The "Pre-Code" years refers to the five years before the Code took effect, between 1930 and mid 1934. When the code became official, Hollywood would operate under the constraint of a rigid set of mandates. Regulations of the code included censorship of language, references to sex, violence, and morality.

The conservative and repressive code required, among other things, no promiscuity, no venereal disease, no excessive violence or brutality, twin beds for married couples, no ridicule of ministers of religion, the prohibition of various words ("sex", "hell", and "damn"), and no clear depictions of rape, seduction, adultery or passionate, illicit sex. There was to be no "excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embracing, suggestive postures and gestures." Sinful activity (such as criminality or sex outside marriage) could often exist in a film IF it was punished or if it ended in misery. All films would be submitted for a "seal of approval" - and if a film was unacceptable and denied a seal, it was not to be exhibited in theaters, and the studio would be fined $25,000. Many films were either suppressed, or severely mutilated or censored to fit the seal's requirements, but until 1934, restrictions on content were mostly evaded and ignored.

In the early days of the Depression in the early 1930s, the desperate Hollywood studios used the open sexuality of platinum blonde Jean Harlow and the outrageous bawdiness of Mae West to increase their profits. The Hays Office and church leaders would soon interpret their screen behaviors as obscene and lacking in morals. The steamy Red Dust (1932) caused controversy for its heated-up love triangle between adulterous Mary Astor, Clark Gable, and prostitute Jean Harlow (and for her nude bathing scene in a rain-barrel). Beginning in mid-year 1934 (until challenges in the mid-1950s and the abolition of the code in 1968), films felt the cold effects of strict enforcement, vigilance and censorship of the (Hays) Production Code of the MPPDA. Film studios submitted their films for review before release in order to be awarded an MPPDA seal of approval - if they met strict standards of decency. Without a seal, films were threatened with negative publicity and potential box-office failure.

The era of separate beds and squeaky-clean morality was just beginning with the enforcement of the Code after mid-1934, and would remain for over 30 years. The Code Challenges Gangster Films: Especially after Warners' early cycle of gritty crime and gangster films, including Little Caesar (1930) , Public Enemy (1931) , and Scarface (1932) , this distinctive genre of films was required to be cleaned up, to display social consciousness, to combat the depiction of the criminal as a folk hero, and to include platitudes that crime-does-not-pay. They were also supposed to show no details of how crimes were committed, and criminals were not allowed to be seen killing lawmen (including bank guards or detectives).

The "classical" gangster film was forced to evolve into other genre variations including: "gangster-as-cop" films (typified by G-Men (1935)), and "Cain-and-Abel" sagas (such as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) in which swaggering gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney), who was the 'bad guy' product of his environment, was executed in the final chilling scene for his crimes). Film History of the 1930s Ecstasy DVD (Symphony of Love)(Ekstase)Hedy Lamarr [ Home > International Historic Films Complete Online Catalog > World Cinema on DVD > Czechoslovakian Films DVDs > Ecstasy DVD (Symphony of Love)(Ekstase)Hedy Lamarr ] Ecstasy DVD (Symphony of Love) (Ekstase) Hedy Lamarr Featuring the actress later known as Hedy Lamarr, this is the story of a young girl married to a wealthy man twice her age who has an affair with a surveyor. Lamarr's nude scene caused a worldwide sensation.

Directed by Gustav Machaty; featuring Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Jaromir Rogoz, and Aribert Mog. Czechoslovakia, 1933, B&W, 90 minutes, German dialogue, English subtitles. NTSC Region 0 encoding (Entire World) Ecstasy DVD (Symphony of Love)(Ekstase)Hedy Lamarr 33190 Hedy Lamarr E-mail james@movietreasures.com for PRICES, AUTHENTICITY, HISTORY and SPECIAL DISCOUNTS HEDY LAMARR Vintage Image 8" x 10" Signed Hedy Lamarr & Clark Gable Image from Clarence Bull at MGM 1940 from "Boomtown" Vintage Photo 8" x 10" unsigned Original Vintage Magazine Ad 1944 Hedy Lamarr Orlando, Florida, USA. (natural causes) Mini biography Hedwig Eva Kiesler from Vienna in Austria was a student of the theatre Nickname The Most Beautiful Woman In Films -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini biography Hedwig Eva Kiesler from Vienna in Austria was a student of the theatre director 'Max Reinhardt' in Berlin.

Since 1930 she worked in Czechoslovakian and German cinema productions; her most famous movie was "Extase (1932)" which converted her to 'Modern Eva' in 1933 and also gave her the opportunity to go to Hollywood where she was contracted by 'MGM'. 'MGM' did not only change her artistic name to 'Hedy Lamarr' but also prepared a new image of an elegant but cool and adventurous woman for her like e.g. in "Algiers (1938)" or "White Cargo (1942)". But as Hollywood did not allow her more but decorative roles she left the business definitely in 1957. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini biography On November 9, 1913, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born in Vienna. Austria to a banker and his wife. Hedwig, who obviously became Hedy, had a rather calm childhood, but it was cinema that fascinated her. By the time she was a teenager, she decided to drop out of school and seek her fame as an actress.

Her first role was a bit part in the German film GELD AUF DER STRASE(aka MONEY ON THE STREET) in 1930. She was attractive and talented enough to be in three more German productions in 1931, but it would be her fifth film that would catapult her to worldwide fame. In 1932, Hedy appeared in a German film called EXTASY and had made the gutsy move to be nude. It's the story of a young girl who is married to a gentleman much younger than she, but she winds up falling in love with a young soldier. The movie's nude scenes created a sensation all over the world. The scenes, while very tame by today's standards, caused the film to be banned by the US government at the time. Hedy soon married Fritz Mandl, who was a munitions manufactuer and a Nazi sympathizer, He attempted to buy up all the prints of EXTASY he could lay his hands on. Even Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, had a copy and refused to sell it to Mandl. It turned out to be a complete waste of money because there are still several prints floating around the world today.

The gutsy move to be nude brought Hollywood to her door. Certain people brought her to the attention of Louis B. Mayer who signed her to a contract against his judgement due to her nude performance. But it was the dollar signs that made him do it due to her notoriety. However, he insisted she change her name and make good, wholesome films. Besides, nudity would never pass the Hays Office(the censorship agency). Hedy made her USA debut as Gaby in the 1938 film ALGIERS. This was followed a year later with LADY OF THE TROPICS. In 1942, she landed the plum role of Tondelayo in the classic, WHITE CARGO. After World War Two, her career began to decline and MGM decided it would be in the interst of all concerned if her contract were not renewed. Unfortunately, for Hedy, she turned down the leads in both GASLIGHT and CASABLANCA. What this would have done to cement her in the minds of the American public! In 1949, she appeared as Delilah opposite Victor Mature in SAMSON AND DELILAH.

This film proved to be Paramount Studios biggest movie to date bringing in $12 million in rental from theaters. The success of the film led to more parts but it was not enough to ease her financial crunch. She was to make only six more films between 1949 and 1957, the last being THE FEMALE ANIMAL. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Lewis J. Boies' (4 March 1963 - 21 June 1965) (divorced; separated 15 October 1964) 'W. Howard Lee' (December 1953 - 1960) (divorced) 'Ted Stauffer' (1951 - 1952) (divorced) John Loder (1943 - 1947) (divorced) Gene Markey (5 March 1939 - 1940) (divorced) 'Fritz Mandl' (10 August 1933 - 1937) (divorced) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trivia Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII.

She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, A Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland. Children: Anthony (b. 1947), Denise (b. 1945), and James (b. 1939) Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court) (April 1998) Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. (11 August 1942) Hedy Lamarr, under her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey, was awarded patent #2,292,387, along with co-inventor George Antheil, for a "Secret Communication System". This seminal invention was the first instance of spread-spectrum communications based on frequency-hopping techniques. After a screen test, it was Louis B. Mayer who changed her last name to Lamarr in honor of silent film star Barbara La Marr. Arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. Found not guilty.

Arrested for shoplifting in 1991. One year probation. She had 2 children and 1 adopted son with John Loder. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal quotes "I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. I need a superior inferior man." My problem is, I'm a hell of a nice dame, The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money. Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, I hope to make you use your imagination "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Actress. (b. Nov.

9, 1913, Vienna, as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.) One of the most beautiful actresses ever to grace the screen, she entered the film business in her native Austria, initially working as a script girl before making her acting debut in 1930's Geld auf der Strasse billed as Hedy Kiesler. She created an international sensation with her role in Gustav Machaty's Extase (1933, released in the U.S. as Ecstasy), which called for her to appear completely nude and simulate orgasm. The resulting furor drove her from the screen, and her Austrian husband made a feeble attempt to buy the film and withdraw it from circulation. She came to America in 1938, and was immediately signed by producer Walter Wanger, who cast her opposite Charles Boyer in his exotic melodrama Algiers later that year. Billed as Hedy Lamarr, the dark, radiant beauty displayed a figure much streamlined from that on view in Ecstasy and while her acting ability was plainly more limited than her command of the English language, she made an impressive Hollywood debut.

MGM signed the glamorous beauty in 1939, occasionally giving her suitably exotic roles-as in Lady of the Tropics (1939) and White Cargo (1942, which saw her steaming up movie screens everywhere as the seductive, sarong-clad Tondelayo)-but frequently putting her in mainstream films, opposite the studio's biggest stars, that often strained her meager talents to the utmost. Her MGM films include I Take This Woman, Boom Town, Comrade X (all 1940), Come Live With Me, Ziegfeld Girl(all 1941),H.M. Pulham, Esq (also 1941, and probably her best performance, as an independentthinking career woman), Tortilla Flat, Crossroads (both 1942), The Heavenly Body (1943), Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945, one of her more charming efforts), and, after she'd been freelancing for several years, A Lady Without Passport (1950).

Her other films, which most often cast her as an enigmatic femme fatale, include The Conspirators, Experiment Perilous (both 1944), The Strange Woman (1946), Dishonored Lady (1947), Let's Live a Little (1948), Samson and Delilah (1949, as the notorious Old Testament temptress, one of her best roles), Copper Canyon (1950), My Favorite Spy (1951), The Love of Three Queens (1953), The Story of Mankind and The Female Animal (both 1957). Lamarr, who made headlines in 1965 when arrested for shoplifting (she was later exonerated), was married six times; her husbands included screenwriter Gene Markey and actor John Loder. Her "autobiography," "Ecstasy and Me," was published in 1966; she later sued her ghostwriters for allegedly misrepresenting her story.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filmography as: Actress, Notable TV guest appearances -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s) Entertaining the Troops (1989) That's Action (1977) .... Hedy Lamarr "World at War, The" (1974) (mini) TV Series (archive footage) (uncredited) .... Herself (raises money for the war effort) Love Goddesses, The (1965) .... Herself ... aka Love Goddesses: A History of Sex in the Cinema, The (1965) Female Animal, The (1957) .... Vanessa Windsor Story of Mankind, The (1957) .... Joan of Arc Amante di Paride, L' (1953) .... Hedy Windsor/Helen of Troy/Empress Josephine/Geneviï¿½ve de Brabant ... aka Cavalieri dell'illusione, I (1953) (Italy) ...

aka Face That Launched a Thousand Ships, The (1953) (UK) ... aka Loves of Three Queens (1953) (USA) My Favorite Spy (1951) .... Lily Dalbray Copper Canyon (1950) .... Lisa Roselle Lady Without Passport, A (1950) .... Marianne Lorress Samson and Delilah (1949) .... Delilah Let's Live a Little (1948) .... Dr. J.O. Loring Dishonored Lady (1947) .... Madeleine Damien Strange Woman, The (1946) .... Jenny Hager Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) .... Princess Veronica Experiment Perilous (1944) .... Alida Bederaux Conspirators, The (1944) .... Irene Heavenly Body, The (1943) .... Vicky Whitley Show Business at War (1943) .... Herself ... aka March of Time Volume IX, Issue 10, The (1943) Crossroads (1942) ....

Lucienne Talbot Tortilla Flat (1942) .... Dolores "Sweets" Ramirez H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) .... Marvin Myles aka Mrs. John Ransom Come Live with Me (1941) .... Johanna Janns (Johnny Jones) Ziegfeld Girl (1941) .... Sandra Kolter Miracle of Sound, The (1940) .... Herself Comrade X (1940) .... Theodora (Golubka) Boom Town (1940) .... Karen Vanmeer Lady of the Tropics (1939) .... Manon deVargnes I Take This Woman (1939) .... Georgi Gragore Algiers (1938) .... Gaby (Gabrielle) Extase (1932) (as Hedy Kiesler) .... Eva ... aka Ecstasy (1932) (USA) ... aka Symphonie der Liebe (1932) ... aka Symphony of Love (1932) Blumenfrau von Lindenau, Die (1931) .... Secretary ...

aka Flower Woman of Lindenau, The (1931) ... aka Sturm im Wasserglas (1931) Man braucht kein Geld (1931) (as Hedy Kiesler) .... Kï¿½the Brandt ... aka His Majesty King Ballyhoo (1931) ... aka We Need No Money (1931) (UK: literal English title) Koffer des Herrn O.F., Die (1931) .... Helene ... aka Build and Marry (1931) ... aka Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F., The (1931) ... aka Trunks of Mr. O.F., The (1931) Geld auf der Straï¿½e (1930) (as Hedwig Kiesler) .... Young Girl at Night Club Table ...

aka Money On the Street (1930) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filmography as: Actress, Notable TV guest appearances -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Zane Grey Theater" (1956) playing "Consuela Bowers" in episode: "Proud Woman" (episode # 2.4) 10/25/1957 "Toast of the Town" (1948) playing "Herself" 9/17/1950 These Items are FOR SALE to knowledgeable Collectors. Please ask all questions of provenance before purchase. Items are only exchangeable if autographs are not authentic. E-mail james@movietreasures.com for INFORMATION Hedy Lamarr - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lviv. Her parents were both from Jewish families. Hedwig had a calm childhood, but it was cinema that ...

See full bio » Born: Bombshells - Page 1 - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk ADVERTISEMENT Bombshells In the beginning, there was Theda Bara . The first movie bombshell seduced the male moviegoers as an exotic femme fatale in 1915’s “A Fool There Was.” She became known as “The Vamp” — short for vampire — for excelling as scantily clad sirens who turned macho men into whimpering fools for love. Ever since Bara nearly bared all, Hollywood has scurried to find the next great bombshell. In the 1930s, there was platinum blond Jean Harlow ; German-born Marlene Dietrich and Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr who had caused quite a stir appearing au naturel in the 1933 Czech film, ‘Ecstasy.” During World War II, the bombshell also became the pin-up favorite of the armed forces, especially singer-dancer Betty Grable whose shapely legs were insured by Lloyds of London.

She was such a favorite of the G.I.’s she even starred in a 1944 musical comedy called “Pin-Up Girl.” The ultimate bombshell was Marilyn Monroe , who shot to stardom in the early 1950s especially after Hugh Hefner published the nude photo of her in Playboy. But there’s more to a bombshell than a pretty face and shapely body. Harlow was a skilled farceur; Dietrich was an Oscar-nominated actress whose film career endured into her 60s; and Monroe not only had that “it” quality but demonstrated solid dramatic acting chops in such films as “Bus Stop” and “The Misfits.” In fact, several bombshells have won Academy Awards including , Halle Berry , Gloria Grahame , Sophia Loren , Ginger Rogers and Shelley Winters . Some bombshells had considerable brain power as well. During World War II, Lamarr co-invented an early form of spread spectrum communications technology, and Jayne Mansfield’s IQ was 163. But she often lamented that the only numbers her fans cared about were her measurements: 40-21-35.

— Susan King, who has covered Hollywood for The Times for more than 25 years. Here's a look at some of the best-known bombshells with stars on the Walk of Fame. If you do not see the person you are looking for below please search our complete list of the stars on the Walk of Fame . And, if you haven’t yet, check out The Times virtual tour of the stars . ” — Patrick Henderson, March 4, 2010 at 7:54 p.m. “ You forgot Rita Hayworth, definitely a classic beauty. Best representatives are Ava Gardner, Monroe & Hayworth Take off Shelly Winters & Carole Landis, not worthy of bombshell description ” — Ayn Montgomery, March 4, 2010 at 7:55 p.m. “ Dorothy Dandrige should be an honorable mention. ” — emhtee, March 5, 2010 at 12:20 p.m. “ ” — Bob Hillegas, March 5, 2010 at 1:25 p.m. “ Where is the incomparable Maureen O'Hara?

” — Richard Clark, March 5, 2010 at 9:58 p.m. “ ” — Dale, March 6, 2010 at 12:02 p.m. “ Dale: Julie Newmar does not have a star on the Walk of Fame. To read more about the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce process and notable omissions visit our "About This Project" page: ” — Megan Garvey/Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2010 at 12:42 p.m. “ Boo! I think the term "Bombshell" is antiquated, derogatory and demeaning. Shame on you! ” — SW, March 6, 2010 at 7:07 p.m. “ She's never been considered a "bombshell", but Lauren Bacall in 'To Have And To Have Not' should qualify for this list. ” — Figgins, March 7, 2010 at 2:39 p.m. “ How about the french sex symbol Brigitte Bardot ” — patrick, March 8, 2010 at 9:33 a.m.

“ Brigitte Bardot does not have a star on the Walk of Fame. Read more about the process for getting a star and some of the notable omissions on our "About This Project" page: ” — matthew conner, June 23, 2010 at 9:38 a.m. “ Agree about Rita Hayworth missing from list, she could easily be the reigning queen. To a reader's comment, Bombshell may be a term from bygone days, but most of the actresses to which it is ascribed are from those days. None of those actresses would have agreed with you about it being demeaning; who knows, a couple of them may have blushed about it, but all would have considered it a crowning achievement. If you think it's derogatory, then you give the term a meaning now that it didn't have in its time. ” — Dean Pennington, July 5, 2010 at 6:34 p.m. “ His feminine side makes him a true bommbshell!! ” — Bill , January 13, 2011 at 10:10 a.m. “ Jane Seymour!

The most beautiful, talented, gracious and sexiest actress of all time. She tops any bombshell list in my book! ” — Kenny, April 9, 2011 at 10:16 p.m. “ Mae West will always be a timeless bombshell! There is noone who will ever be able to walk in Mae's shoes, not even Marilyn Monroe ” — Shushuz, June 17, 2011 at 6:57 p.m. “ 1) If you put Theda BARA, why not Clara BOW, Louise BROOKS, Pauline STARKE and her wonderful smile...

2)In the "classical" Star list, I don't know if they have a Star on the Walk of Fame or not, but here are my suggestions of missing ones : Lauren BACALL, May BRITT, Claudia CARDINALE, Cyd CHARISSE, Linda DARNELL, Yvonne DE CARLO, Dolores DEL RIO, Anita EKBERG, Rita HAYWORTH, Vivien LEIGH, Gina LOLLOBRIGIDA, Carole LOMBARD, Gloria SWANSON, Gene TIERNEY, Esther WILLIAMS, Natalie WOOD, Loretta YOUNG. Bombshell doesn't mean only Blondeshell or Americanshell, does it ? 3)If there is Farrah FAWCETT and Raquel WELCH, there should be Bo DEREK and Olivia NEWTON JOHN, otherwise you've never seen "Grease". And Ursula ANDRESS and Jacqueline BISSET !!! 4)In the "young" ones : Jennifer CONNELLY, Hilary SWANK, Uma THURMAN.

5)I would remove Hillary BROOKE, Gloria GRAHAME, Adele JERGENS, Carole LANDIS, Joi LANSING, Irish McCALLA, Shelley WINTERS. (some of them I never heard of...) 6)Thank you Patrick (March 8, 2010) for mentioning 1 french : Brigitte BARDOT. In this case I would add : Francoise ARNOUL, Martine CAROL, Michele MORGAN. Thanks, ” — Frederic Mahler, August 15, 2011 at 5:08 p.m. “ ” — Frederic Mahler, August 15, 2011 at 5:14 p.m. “ Where is Thelma Todd. She was gorgeous and built. ” — bob, October 4, 2011 at 10:40 a.m. “ Elizabeth Taylor should be first on this list. She was the most beautiful actress ever!! ” — Anonymous, January 19, 2012 at 1:18 a.m. “ You list Sophia Loren but omit Silvana Mangano!

Lizabeth Scott is certainly as worthy as some of the blonds listed. And where is Salma Hayek and Mira Sorvino? ” — Dave, February 26, 2012 at 1:21 p.m. “ There was an important omision. Debra Paget. Although she was petitte she was also a formidable bomshell ” — ricky, January 6, 2013 at 7:54 p.m. “ Great list. Like to see Mamie Van Doren , Monique Van Vooren, Nikki Six, the great Angie Dickinson, May Britt, Britt Ekland, Anita Eckberg , Brigitte Bardot, Gina Lollabrigida, Ursula Andress, Diana Rigg, Lola Falana, Carol Wayne, Yvette Mimieux, Virna Lisi, Claudia Cardinelli, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Arlene Dahl, the gorgeous Sharon Tate, Cher, Suzanne Somers, Loni Anderson, Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Jill St.

John, Linda Ronstadt, Olivia Newton/John, Donna Mills, Michelle Phillips, Debbie Reynolds, Connie Stevens, Joey Heatherton, Dorothy Malone, Lauren Bacall, Dolly Parton, Janet Leigh, Joanna Pettit, Lynda Day George, Leslie Ann Warren, Syd Charisse, Juliet Prowse, Barbara Eden, Barbara Felfon, Suzanne Pleshette, Phyliis George... ” — Ian, June 30, 2014 at 6:59 p.m. “ Please add the fabulously glamorous and gorgeous Arlene Dahl. ” — Victoria, August 10, 2014 at 2:33 p.m. “ Please add Elizabeth Taylor and Rita Hayworth. ” — Victoria, August 10, 2014 at 2:35 p.m. “ First actress I ever fell in love with "Paulette Goddard". A stunner & later Ann Margaret ” — Dezzy , December 1, 2014 at 5:50 a.m. “ What about Catherine Zeta Jones? She epitomizes the old Hollywood glamour that many actress choose to downplay .

” — Genevieve Lee, January 31, 2015 at 7:09 p.m. “ Don't ever remove Gloria Grahame. She was certainly a bombshell of the highest order. ” — john morris, November 17, 2015 at 1:25 p.m. Share a thought about The Times’ “Bombshells” category Which star best represents the group? Does everyone here deserve to be on the list? Who has been overlooked?

Question: Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film "Ecstasy"?
Answer: Hedy Lamarr