Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

"Icon. Immigrant. Inventor."

Mar 8 2018 N/A 1h 28m
Biography, Documentary, History

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Plot

Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. However, that was only the surface that tragically obscured her astounding true talents. Foremost of them was her inventive genius that a world blinded by her beauty could not recognize as far back as her youth in Austria with her homemade gadgets. This film explores Lamarr's life which included escaping a loveless marriage on the eve of Nazi Germany's conquest of her nation to a new career in Hollywood. However, her intellectual contributions were denied their due even when she offered them in the service of her new home during World War II. Only after years of career and personal decline in her troubled life would Lamarr learn that her staggering aptitude created brilliant engineering concepts that revolutionized telecommunications, which forced the world to realize the hidden abilities of a woman it had so unfairly underestimated.

Written by

Alexandra Dean

Directed by

Alexandra Dean

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Reframed Pictures

Languages

Deutsch, English

Awards

8 wins & 5 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
4,592
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
70
Popularity
NA