
November 9, 1914 · 111 years old
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her…

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman.

In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.

Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

An amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.

An aging film star and her alcoholic daughter compete for a handsome extra.

The history of sexual mores in America and as shown in Hollywood films is examined, from early cinema through the Hays Code. The 1960s and the sexual revolution were a turning point in society, as reflected on screen.