Word: kiesler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Hedy Lamarr (real name: Hedy Kiesler Mandl), 24, sultry Viennese cinemactress (Extase, Algiers'); and Gene Markey, 43, cinema producer; both for the second time; in Mexicali, Lower Calif...
...Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses...
...that in which an informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry cinema of Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema...
Year after she made Extase, Actress Kiesler, daughter of a Viennese banker, married Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl. He made her quit acting and by last summer, after their marriage was dis solved by the French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
...screen drama "Ecstasy" suffers in American eyes from a slowness of pace and a naivete which make it heavy at times. It has considerable photographic beauty and a very satisfying musical score. The chief merit of the picture, however, must be attributed to the compellingly intense performance of Hedy Kiesler in the central role of the young girl. There is a roughness and occasional incoherency which are probably the result of virtuous scissors...