VINTAGE PHOTO OF THE HOLLYWOOD LEGEND LAMARR (Hedy (1914-1000, Austro-Hungarian born American Actress and Hollywood Film Star and Inventor)

Fine Vintage Photograph Signed showing her head and shoulders looking down, 10” x 8”, no place, no date, circa

After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Travelling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.

Item Date:  1940

Stock No:  42210      £500

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