Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) explores the multifaceted life of the Austrian-Jewish actress Hedy Lamarr, once known as the ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’. The star, who is said to have inspired the appearance of iconic characters such as Disney’s Snow White and Batwoman, described herself as an enfant terrible and was a woman of many talents.
Originating from a bourgeois German-speaking Jewish family in Vienna, she escaped both the Nazis and her existence as a trophy wife in the 1930s by joining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become a Hollywood star. Whilst her audience’s imagination was captivated by her ravishing beauty, her scandalous private life, and the provocative movies she had made in Europe prior to her escape, Hedy Lamarr’s involvement in the invention of the groundbreaking frequency hopping technology in the 1940s was largely overlooked.
This film rediscovers Hollywood wild-child, Hedy Lamarr, not only as an actress but as the brilliant mind who co-invented the 1940s wireless technology that is the basis for today’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies.
This American biographical documentary film was written and co-edited by Alexandra Dean and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. It has won several awards, including a New York Times Critic’s Pick and five audience awards. J Hoberman named it ‘one of the best films of 2017’. The song ‘She’ from the film by Alice Phoebe Lou was included on the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song.
Directed and written by: Alexandra Dean
Produced by: Adam Haggiag, Alexandra Dean and Katherine Drew
Co-produced by: Dan Brown and David Koh
Executive producer: Susan Sarandon, Regina K. Scully and Michael Kantor
Edited by: Alexandra Dean, Penelope Falk and Lindy Jankura
Documentary, 88 min, 2017
Language: English
The link below will be active for 200 free viewings for a limited number of days – from 15/12/22 to 31/12/22.
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