Calling Hedy Lamarr: Inventor, Glamour Goddess, and Hollywood Icon – Part 2
Review of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), the 3rd and likely final chronicle of the actress / inventor, now screening at Toronto’s Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
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Film: Bombshell – The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
With a third documentary on the famous Hollywood icon now in release, the question is What new information could there be, since Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004) and Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) both presented a wealth of information using very different approaches…
Calling Hedy Lamarr: Inventor, Glamour Goddess, and Hollywood Icon – Part 1
Reviews of two docs on legendary Hollywood beauty Hedy Lamarr and her discrete activities as an influential inventor: Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004) + Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006).
Film: Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004)
Georg Misch’s 2004 documentary is built around the revelation of the famous actress’ co-creation of spread spectrum frequency hopping, an alternating frequency system designed & patented during WWII to ensure radio-controlled torpedoes couldn’t be jammed by the Nazis…
DVD: Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006)
Produced 5 years after her death in 2000, this expose of Hollywood glamour goddess Hedy Lamarr draws primarily from a 1970 interview with a German TV crew and interviews with surviving friends and colleagues to peel back the myth of the actress being nothing more than a silver screen beauty…
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