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The most beautiful woman in the world. Inventor of the basis for the technological revolution. An Austrian Jew and wife of an abusive Nazi arms dealer. Hollywood’s original bombshell. Hedy Kiesler was ...

Imagine being so beautiful that no one would let you be smart. That's the sad story of Hedy Lamarr, the subject of Alexandra Dean's debut feature documentary, Bombshell. After causing a splash in ...

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story profiles one of the most glamorous stars of Hollywood’s golden age, but it’s not your usual silver-screen documentary. Drawing on several books (most notably Hedy’s ...

Few would dispute that Hedy Lamarr belongs in the pantheon of screen goddesses from Hollywood’s golden age. But recognition has proven far more elusive for her work beyond the realm of movie ...

Hedy Lamarr’s early life was the stuff of movies: As a teenage starlet, she became the face of “Ecstasy,” one of the most controversial films of its day. By 18, she was the Jewish trophy wife of a ...

Born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, the late screen siren known as Hedy Lamarr was famous for two things: her glamorous good looks and a scandalous performance, while still a teenager, in “Ekstase” ...

Actress Hedy Lamarr is best remembered as the glamorous Viennese film star who parlayed her notorious nude screen debut in “Ecstasy” into a Hollywood career. But as the PBS “American Masters” ...

Director Alexandra Dean shares all of her Hedy Lamarr memorabilia. Director Alexandra Dean shares all the articles, photos and letters stashed away in her home that piece together the true story of ...

"Any girl can look glamorous; all she has to do is stand still and look stupid." That quote from Hedy Lamarr opens this long-overdue cinematic biographical documentary of the perennially ...

Credit: [Public Domain] via Wikicommons Called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” actor Hedy Lamarr was renowned for her looks. But she had a brilliant, inventive mind that she rarely got credit ...