Bombshell : the Hedy Lamarr story
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, closed-captioned.
Performers
Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Zeitgeist Films, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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 to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten--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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2017.
Special features: Interview with director Alexandra Dean ; outtakes with Gillian Jacobs, Mel Brooks, and Robert Osborne ; trailers.