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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

  • 20172017
  • 1h 28m
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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
IMDb RATING
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3.8K
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    • Alexandra Dean
    • Alexandra Dean
  • Stars
    • Hedy Lamarr(archive footage)
    • Mel Brooks
    • Jennifer Hom
    • Alexandra Dean
    • Alexandra Dean
  • Stars
    • Hedy Lamarr(archive footage)
    • Mel Brooks
    • Jennifer Hom
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    • 52User reviews
    • 79Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
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    Hedy Lamarr
    Hedy Lamarr
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Mel Brooks
    Mel Brooks
    • Self
    Jennifer Hom
    • Self
    Anthony Loder
    • Self
    Wendy Colton
    • Self
    Fleming Meeks
    • Self
    Richard Rhodes
    • Self
    Jan-Christopher Horak
    Jan-Christopher Horak
    • Self
    Jeanine Basinger
    Jeanine Basinger
    • Self
    Peter Bogdanovich
    Peter Bogdanovich
    • Self
    Anne Helen Petersen
    • Self
    Diane Kruger
    Diane Kruger
    • Self
    Stephen Michael Shearer
    Stephen Michael Shearer
    • Self
    Robert Osborne
    Robert Osborne
    • Self
    Denise Loder-DeLuca
    • Self
    Roy Windham
    • Self
    Manya Hartmayer Breuer
    • Self
    • (as Manya Breuer)
    Guy Livingston
    • Self
    • (as Guy P. Livingston)
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      • Alexandra Dean
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    • Trivia
      Diane Kruger appears as an interviewee in this documentary. Although it is not mentioned during the film, Kruger was at the time preparing to produce a TV miniseries biopic on the life of Hedy Lamarr, with Kruger herself starring as Lamarr. The biopic was to be an adaptation of the 2012 biography Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes. All three projects (the Rhodes book, the documentary "Bombshell," and the development of the screenplay for Kruger's miniseries) were awarded grants by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic organization that normally supports science and technology experiments and endeavors.
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      [last lines]

      Hedy Lamarr - Self: [voice over] I'll read you something pretty. "People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered - love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, alternative motives - do good anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds - think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight - build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll be kicked into the teeth - give the world the best you've got anyway."

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      Features Ballet mécanique (1924)
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      Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
      Performed by Aretha Franklin
      Written by Aretha Franklin and Ted White

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    7/10
    Well made documentary
    A well directed documentary on the life of Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr. Viewing her life in its entirety, the documentaries main focus is to shed light on who she was outside of the limelight. Most notably her contribution to science. The doc doesn't shy away from the bad times either, and goes through her decline after her Hollywood years were over. A truly beautiful but complicated woman. An interesting watch.
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      • March 8, 2018 (Ireland)
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      • Vienna, Austria
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      • Reframed Pictures
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