When Ecstasy debuted, it launched Lamarr into both stardom and infamy, and she retreated to the stage to get away from movies ...

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler ... After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ...

Mayer to sign her to MGM, on the condition that she change her name from Hedy Kiesler (which was associated with Ecstasy) to Hedy Lamarr. After she became a movie star, she was so well-known for ...