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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The famously beautiful actress Hedy Lamarr set movie screens ablaze in the 1940s and ’50s, but what few knew was that her true calling was as an inventor: Credit Lamarr with the Wi-Fi technology ...

It doesn’t seem fair that anyone as beautiful as legendary movie star Hedy Lamarr should be smart, too, but she was. Or that’s what the documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” would have you ...

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 ...

“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” rights a grievous wrong in the life, career, reputation and memory of a superstar. It fascinates both as film history and as a sobering reminder of how little credit ...

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 ...

The famously beautiful actress Hedy Lamarr set movie screens ablaze in the 1940s and ’50s, but what few knew was that her true calling was as an inventor: Credit Lamarr with the Wi-Fi technology ...