| Profile | |
| Born | Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler November 9, 1913(1913-11-09) Vienna, Austria |
| Died | January 19, 2000 (aged 86) Orlando, Florida |
| Years active | 1930 - 1958 |
| Spouse(s) | Fritz Mandl (1933-1937) Gene Markey (1939-1941) John Loder (1943-1947) Teddy Stauffer (1951-1952) W. Howard Lee (1953-1960) Lewis J. Boies (1963-1965) |
More about Hedy Lamarr(From Wikipedia)
Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum encoding, a key to modern wireless communication.
Read more...Lamarr was born as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Jewish parents Gertrud (née Lichtwitz), a pianist and Budapest native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, a successful bank director. She studied ballet and piano. When working with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe". Soon, the Read more...
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 famously beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara LaMarr, who had died of tuberculosis and nephritis in 1926.
In Hollywood, she was usually cast as glamorous and seductive. Her American debut was in Algiers (1938). Read more...

Jessica Alba
Penelope Cruz
Kate Hudson
Julia Roberts
Paris Hilton
Jennifer Aniston
Cameron Diaz
Kate Beckinsale