Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

Genre
Documentary, Biography
Release Date
November 24, 2017
Studio
Kino Lorber
Official Site
http://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/bombshellthehedylamarrstory
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Release Date
November 24, 2017
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
86 minute(s)
Production Budget
1.5
Studio
Kino Lorber
Official Site
http://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/bombshellthehedylamarrstory
Director
Alexandra Dean
Producer
Alexandra Dean, Katherine Drew, Adam Haggiag
Screenwriter
Alexandra Dean
Starring
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Mel Brooks
  • Robert Osborne

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.

Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life-from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions - "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day.