Biography
If you put a photo of Hedi Lamarr and Vivien Lee, to distinguish the actresses will not be easy - their similarity is so great.
Creative fates were similar: both women were recognized, but were forced to constantly fight for the right to play significant roles, and not to appear in the images of seductive beauties. However, Lamarr has also gained popularity as an inventor, and today's cellular communication exists in many ways thanks to Hedi.
Childhood and youth
Hedget Eva Maria (real name Actress), the only child of Gertruda and Emil's oxygen, was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna.
Father Girls, Galicia Jew come from Lviv, was the director of the bank. The mother, also a Jewish, was born in Budapest and in adulthood deliberately adopted Christianity, barely in the Catholic faith. The daughter of Gertrud also brought up a Christian.
In childhood, Hedi was interested in acting skills, and also fond of theater and cinema. A bright appearance of the actress has highlighted in childhood - in 12 years old girl won a beauty contest in Vienna.
Films
The biography of the future actress in the world of the movie began with deception. To get in the Sascha-Film film company, 16-year-old Hedi faked the mother's note and eventually received the position of assistant director on the script. In 1930, the girl managed to get into the mass of the film "Money on the Street", and a year later, to achieve roles with words in the painting "Storm in a glass". In 1932, Lamarr received a major role in the comedy "not in money happiness" - a film that made the actress famous.
The next job was the main role in the scandalous film "Ecstasy" Gustav Mahati. The 18-year-old Hedi became the first actress in cinema, removed for a large screen in an erotic scene. She embodied on the screen the image of a young wife of a rich and indifferent old man. However, the popularity of Ribe brought not an acting game, but a scene of swimming in the lake, which demonstrated nude Hedi.
For cinema of those times, this has become a serious shock and challenge to public stands. Hedi herself was outraged by the result of the filming - the directors were deceived by using powerful lenses, although initially speeches about the nude girls did not go.
As a result, the film turned out to be resonant: the society perceived the revelations negatively, and then the picture condemned the Pope PIM XII. Nevertheless, at the 2nd Venetian Film Festival of 1934, Ecstasy celebrated the Cup of the city of Venice for the best director.
In 1937, Heddy moved to London, where he met Louis Mayer, the head of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Hedi Lamarr, she became exactly then - to take her alias convinced Luis so that the girl was not associated with the "ecstasy".
In 1938, the actress was in Hollywood, and Meyer began to promote her as the "most beautiful woman in the world," hoping that the Hedi would become a Hollywood analogue of Grea Grebo or Marlene Dietrich. The girl had all the prerequisites for this: in addition to a beautiful face, Lamarr had an excellent figure: when height 170 cm, the weight of the actress was 58 kg.
At first, Lamarr starred in the tape "Algeria", then received a role in the picture "I'll take this woman." However, the release of this film was postponed due to the dismissal of the director, so the second picture of the Hedi in Hollywood became "Lady from the tropics", where the girl appeared in the image of the charming metholi manon, thirsting to leave the French Indochina and live in the world of white people.
Gone in the 1940s "I will take this woman" in the box office failed, which you will not say about the next project with the participation of Hedi, the film "Noisy City". There, the actress starred together with Star Clark Gablom, which in itself guaranteed the picture of success. The actors looked so organically together on the movie screen, as the next project Lamarr appeared along with Gabl. The spy comedy "Comrade X" became one of the first pre-war ribbons of the United States, openly criticized the policies of fascist Germany.
In 1942, in the film "White Cargo", Hedi again tried on the role of a seducer, playing null-tudelone. This image characterizes the focus of Lamarr characters in youth: directors made a bet on the beauty and sensuality of a woman, leaving her little opportunities to show acting professionalism.
As a result, in 1945, Hedi broke up with MGM and, together with Jack, he founded his own manufacturing company. The first product was the nairny thriller "Strange Woman". There Lamarr was able to express himself outside the image of sexual beauty: the image of Jenny Hager was multifaceted and folded, and the role is imbued with psychologism. From the point of view of the acting game "Strange Woman", many critics are considered to be the best work in Hedi filmography.
4 years later, Lamarr played another successful role - Dalil in Samson and Dalila tape based on the biblical plot. The picture was the most cash film of 1949 and received 2 Oscars, as well as favorable critics reviews.
In the early 1950s, Hedi went to the decline. In 1954, Lamarr went to Italy to work on the epic drama "In Love Paris". In it, the actress not only performed 3 main roles, but also performed as a producer. Unfortunately, Hedi had no experience that would help her correctly calculate the forces to set so much epic picture. As a result, "Paris in love" failed at the box office and became extremely unprofitable for Lamarr.
After that, Hedi starred quite a little. The last film with her participation was the picture of the "female", where Lamarr ironically appeared in front of the audience in the image of the failed and aging kinitiva.
Scientific activity
Those who perceived Hedi only as a beautiful woman were deeply mistaken - besides excellent appearance, she also had a sharp mind.
By 1942, Hedi, fascinated by the idea of developing a method for remote control of torpedoes, developed the technology of "jumping frequencies", to which, together with George Antele, descended a patent.
However, the US Armed Forces were not interested in the invention and remembered it only in 1962. After that, Lamarr's technology began to be used, although limited. Recognition to the work of Hedi came closer to the end of the 20th century, when it became the basis for communication technology with an extended spectrum. Today, thanks to Lamarr, people can use mobile communications, and Wi-Fi.
Personal life
Lifely life of Lamarr was stormy and very confusing. The actress replaced six husbands, and no marriage lasted longer than 7 years. The first union of Hedi was the most difficult. At 18, she married an Austrian arms merchant Friedrich Mandla. Parents categorically did not approve of this union: a man, despite the Jewish roots, had connections with Benito Mussolini and Hitler.
The spouse did not want Lamarr to continue the acting career, and treated his wife, rather, like things, rather than personality. After 4 years of marriage, Hedi could not stand this appeal and ran away. After that, in the period from 1939 to 1965, Lamarr was married to the screenwriter Gin Magna, actor John Laoulo, Restaurator Ernest Stauffer, Oilman Howard Lee and lawyer Lewis Boys.
Hedi relationships with children were not easy. The actress urged everyone that only Deniz and Anthony Larats are relatives for her. Also, the woman had an allegedly adopted son James Lamarr Brand. The celebrity claimed that the father of the boy was Jean Mark, and she just adopted the child, like her next husband John Larator.
Hedi did not love James, a difficult and unmanaged child. When a boy studied in the 5th grade, the actress sent him to the boarding school. She didn't see anyone with James and did not even include him in the plea.
After the death of Lamarr, a man found documents confirming suspicions: according to them, James is the extramarital son of Hedi and John Laiter, born back during the marriage of Lamarr and Mark. After that, as an inheritance, he was awarded $ 50 thousand - less than the actress showed some people with whom she was not related to related bonds.
Death
In old age, Hedi led a secluded life and practically did not communicate directly, preferring telephone conversations.
The actress died in Kasselberry, Florida, January 19, 2000. The cause of the death of Lamarr was the heart disease. Anthony Larator, according to the will of the mother dispelled her ash in the Viennese forest.
Filmography
- 1930 - "Money on the street"
- 1933 - "Ecstasy"
- 1938 - "Algeria"
- 1939 - "Lady from the tropics"
- 1940 - "I'll take this woman"
- 1940 - "Noisy City"
- 1940 - "Comrade X"
- 1942 - "White Cargo"
- 1944 - "Paradise Body"
- 1946 - "Strange Woman"
- 1949 - "Samson and Dalila"
- 1950 - "Copper Canyon"
- 1951 - "My favorite spy"
- 1954 - "Paris in love"
- 1958 - "Female"