![]() ![]() DeMille’s Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Female Animal (1957). ![]() Some of her films include an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat (1942), White Cargo (1942), Cecil B. She continued to land parts opposite the most popular and talented actors of the day, including Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, and Jimmy Stewart. Once in Hollywood, she officially changed her name to Hedy Lamarr and starred in her first Hollywood film, Algiers (1938), opposite Charles Boyer. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. ![]() I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded-and imprisoned-having no mind, no life of its own." She fled the marriage finally in 1937, moving to Paris where she met MGM head Louis B. He was the absolute monarch in his marriage. Lamarr is quoted as saying about her marriage "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife. At 18 years old she married an ill match a wealthy but abusive man named Friedrich Mandl. ![]()
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