Word: kiesler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fritz & Hedy. Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria's pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920's he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and kept fancy apartments. His grande affaire was Second Wife Hedy Kiesler (Lamarr) of Ecstasy fame...
Married. Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), 28; and John Loder, 45, British-born actor; each for the third time; same day he divorced his second wife; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Vienna-born cinemactress' first two ecstasies were Austrian Munitions-Maker Fritz Mandl and American Scenarist Gene Markey...
This installation is the creation of diminutive, Austrian-born Scenic Designer Frederick J. Kiesler, director of the laboratory of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. Says he, making everything plain: "We, the inheritors of chaos, must be the architects of a new unity...
...Moko (French Production; Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn release) arrived in the U. S. following its tail. Produced during the heyday of the French cinema four years ago, it sired a Hollywood duplicate, Algiers, which finally wakened cinemaddicts to further charms of Hedy Lamarr, who, as Hedy Kiesler, had audiences gulping at her nude prancing and purple passion in the foreign-made Ecstasy...
...accepted a five-year contract to make three pictures at a salary of $1,000 a week. This was automatically broken after the Nazi coup d'etat. His last film, titled "Thirteen Valises of Mr. O. F.," was made with Hedy Lamarr, then a comparatively unknown actress called Hedy Kiesler. Although he was only nine years old at the time, Marc says he thought Hedy was a "very beautiful woman, though a trifle too exotic...