Hedy Lamarr

DeMille is said to have gathered the 1900 peacock feathers that Lamarr wore on her 18-foot-train dress in the 1949 movie Samson and Delilah himself, having chased molting peacocks on his ranch for the previous 10 years until he had collected enough feathers to have the garment made. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6685 Hollywood Blvd. According to accounts in film histories, Cecil B. After surviving breast cancer and a double mastectomy, Myrna Loy died during cancer surgery in New York City and was cremated; her ashes are buried at Forestvale Cemetery, in Helena, Montana. Lamarr later sued the publisher claiming that many of the anecdotes were fabricated by the ghost writer. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center in 1986. Although she was never nominated for an Academy Award for any single performance, she received an Academy Honorary Award in 1991 "for her career achievement". While her husband searched the brothel, a customer entered the room and she had sex with the man so she could remain hidden. She was finally successful in escaping when she hired a new maid that looked like herself, drugged her and used the maid's uniform as a disguise to escape. Her autobiography Being And Becoming Myrna Loy was published in 1987.

In one story presented in her autobiography, Ecstacy and Me, once while running from Mandl she slipped into a brothel and hid in an empty room. Her film career continued sporadically and she also returned to the stage making her Broadway debut in 1973. They were divorced after Lamarr claimed he had threatened her with a baseball bat. From 1949 until 1954 she also worked for UNESCO. Boies (1920-), a lawyer, married 1963-65. In later life she assumed a more influential role as Co-Chairman of the "Advisory Council of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing". (6) Lewis J. During her career she had championed the rights of black actors and characters to be depicted with dignity on film.

In 1960, he married film star Gene Tierney. It also allowed Loy to make a film that demonstrated her social conscience. Howard Lee (1909-1981), a Texas oilman, married 1953-60. In later years Loy would recall this film as her proudest acting achievement. (5) W. She returned to films with The Best Years Of Our Lives in 1946 and played the wife of returning serviceman Fredric March. He was married in 1955 to Anne Nekel Brown. She helped run a Naval Auxilary Canteen and toured frequently to raise funds.

(4) Ernest "Ted" Stauffer, nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader, married 1951-52. She was fiercely outspoken against Adolf Hitler and her name appeared on his "blacklist". NOTE 3: Anthony Loder is the owner of Phone USA, a cellular-phone store in Los Angeles. With the outbreak of World War II she all but abandoned her acting career to focus on the war effort and worked closely with the Red Cross. NOTE 2: A former Nordstrom employee, Denise Loder, now known as Denise Loder DeLuca, lives in Seattle. During this period she was one of Hollywood's busiest and highest paid actresses. Loder is married to the former Ona Minor and has four children, all of whom carry Lamarr as their middle name: Timothy, Ronald, Nadine, and Susan. In 1936, she was voted "Queen of Hollywood" (in a contest which also voted Clark Gable "King") and was considered to epitomise the height of glamour and sophistication.

He later dropped his suit against the estate in exchange for a lump-sum payment of $50,000. She and Powell proved to be a popular couple and appeared in 14 films together, the most prolific onscreen pairing in Hollywood history. Now a riverboat casino guard, James Lamarr Loder later challenged Hedy Lamarr's will in 2000, which did not mention him. Her performance in The Thin Man later the same year as William Powell's sophisticated, witty wife Nora made her a star. NOTE 1: Loder adopted James Lamarr Markey and gave him his surname. The first was Manhattan Melodrama with Clark Gable and William Powell. He also had a son and a daughter by his first two marriages to Sophie Kabel and Micheline Cheirel. Her breakthrough occurred in 1934 with two very successful films.

In 1949, Loder married Evelyn Auffmordt (née Carolan), and in 1958, he married Alba Julia Lagomarsino. During her nine year struggle to establish herself, she appeared in nearly 80 films. (3) John Loder (né John Muir Lowe, 1899-1989), actor, married 1943-47; two children: Anthony Loder (1947-) and Denise Loder (1945-). Her silent film roles were mainly those of vampish exotic women and for a few years she struggled to overcome this stereotype with many producers and directors believing that while she was perfect as these femme fatales, she was capable of little more. Previously married to the actress Joan Bennett (whose daughter, Diane Bennett Fox, he adopted and gave his surname) and father of their daughter Melinda, Markey later married Lucille Wright (née Parker), the owner of Calumet Farms, the thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky. Rudolph Valentino arranged a screen test for her which she failed, but she persevered, and in 1925 appeared in the movie What Price Beauty. When Lamarr and Markey divorced -- she claimed they had only spent four evenings alone together in their marriage -- the judge advised her to get to know any future husband more than the four weeks she had known Markey. At the age of fifteen she began appearing in local stage productions.

(2) Gene Markey (died 1980), screenwriter and producer, married 1939-41; son (adopted), James Lamarr Markey (1939-). Born Myrna Adele Williams in Raidersburg (near Helena, Montana), she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young. He also founded a new company, an airplane factory called Industria Metalurgica y Plastica Argentina and served a prison sentence. Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 - December 14, 1993) was a United States actress, well known for her motion picture work. He also become an advisor to Juan Peron and a film producer whose leading ladies included the future Eva Peron. Made for TV, and starring opposite Henry Fonda, this was Loy's final performance, save for a guest role in a 1982 episode of the television series Love, Sidney. In 1938, when his property was seized by the Austrian government, Mandl, a Nazi sympathizer who had become close to Prince Ernst Ruediger von Stahremberg, the deposed Fascist Austrian Vice-Chancellor, fled to Brazil and later Argentina, where he became a citizen and remarried. Summer Solstice (1981).

(1) Friedrich (Fritz) Mandl (1900-), married 1933-37; chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. Just Tell Me What You Want (1980). The actress was married to:. The End (1978). She once raised $7,000,000 at one event. Airport 1975 (1974). Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but was told she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell war bonds. Midnight Lace (1960).

Neither Lamarr nor Antheil made any money from the patent. From the Terrace (1960). The patent was little-known until recently because Lamarr applied for it under her then-married name of Hedy Kiesler Markey. Belles on Their Toes (1952). Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950). DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).

Her biggest success came in Cecil B. Mr. In Hollywood, she appeared in many films, usually cast as glamorous and seductive, including White Cargo and Tortilla Flat (both 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Song of the Thin Man (1947). Closeups of her face in passion, and long shots of her running naked through the woods, gave the film notoriety. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). She had already appeared in several European films, including Ecstasy, in which she played a love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).