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West-German postcard by Starfoto Hasemann, no. 225. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Glamorous and seductive film star Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was born in Austria. The notorious Czechoslovak film Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933) made her an international sensation, and Louis Mayer invited her to Hollywood where she became ‘the most beautiful woman in films’.
Hedy Lamarr was born as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), the daughter of Jewish parents. Her mother was a pianist and her father 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’. Her first film role was a bit part in the German film Das Geld liegt auf der Straße/Money on the Street (Georg Jacoby, 1930). Soon, the attractive and talented teenage girl played major roles in the German films Die Frau von Lindenau/Storm in a Water Glass (Georg Jacoby, 1931), Die Abenteuer des Herrn O. F./The Trunks of Mr. O. F. (Alexis Granowsky, 1931), and Man braucht kein Geld/We Need No Money (Carl Boese, 1932) alongside stars like Heinz Rühmann and Hans Moser. But it would be her fifth film that catapulted her to worldwide fame. In early 1933, she starred in Gustav Machatý's Ekstase/Symphonie der Liebe/Ecstasy (1933), a Czechoslovak film made in Prague. It's the story of a young girl who has an indifferent old husband and falls in love with a young soldier. Closeups of her face in orgasm, and long shots of her running nude through the woods, 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, 13 years her senior. The Austrian fascist bought up as many copies of the film as he could possibly find, as he objected to her nudity and ‘the expression on her face’. (She later claimed the looks of passion were the result of the director poking her in the bottom with a safety pin.) He prevented her from pursuing her acting career, and instead took her to meetings with technicians and business partners. In these meetings, the mathematically talented Lamarr learned about military technology. Otherwise, she had to stay at the castle Schwarzenau. She later related that even though Mandl was part-Jewish, he was consorting with Nazi industrialists which infuriated her. In 1937, she convinced Mandl to allow her to attend a party wearing all her expensive jewelry, later drugged him with the help of her maid, and made her escape out of the country with the jewelry.
First Hedwig Kiesler 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 beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara LaMarr, who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis and nefritis. In Hollywood, she was usually cast as glamorous and seductive. Her American debut was in Algiers (John Cromwell, 1938). Hedy Lamarr made 18 films between 1940 and 1949 including Boom Town (Jack Conway, 1940), White Cargo (Richard Thorpe, 1942), and Tortilla Flat (Victor Fleming, 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her most famous film quote, "I am Tondelayo". She left MGM in 1945. For Paramount she as Delilah opposite Victor Mature's Samson in Cecil B. DeMille's epic Samson and Delilah (1949). This proved to be Paramount's most profitable movie to date, bringing in $12 million in rental from theaters. However, following her comedic turn opposite Bob Hope in My Favorite Spy (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1951), her career went into decline. She was to make only six more films between 1949 and 1957, the last being The Female Animal (Harry Keller, 1958). She became a naturalised US citizen in 1953. The publication of her autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me' (1967) took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after Andy Warhol's short film Hedy/The Shoplifter (1966). The controversy surrounding the shoplifting charges coincided with an aborted return to the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (Bert I. Gordon, 1966). The role was ultimately filled by Zsa Zsa Gabor. In the ensuing years, she retreated from public life and settled in Florida. She returned to the headlines in 1991 when the 78-year-old former actress was again accused of shoplifting, although charges were eventually dropped. Hedy Lamarr died in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 2000. She had been married six times, including to actor John Loder. Their son Anthony Loder took her ashes to Vienna and spread them in the Wienerwald, according to her wishes. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd.
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This is probably the shot I should have used. But I like the other one better. Its more fun and I feel like everyone is taking the more serious approach :)
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Sweets Seductive Dress Philadelphia Studio Photo Shoot Kodak TMY 5053 Tmax 400 ISO 35 mm B&W Contact Sheet Proof Print December 1995
Take a picture of any doll of yours with a seductive side glance. If you are seeing this consider yourself tagged.
Vintage No. 4 Barbie