Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

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

Director:

Alexandra Dean

Writer:

Alexandra Dean

Stars:

Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom

8 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Hedy Lamarr	...	Herself (archive footage)
Mel Brooks	...	Himself
Jennifer Hom	...	Herself
Anthony Loder	...	Himself
Wendy Colton	...	Herself
Fleming Meeks	...	Himself
Richard Rhodes	...	Himself
Jan-Christopher Horak	...	Himself
Jeanine Basinger	...	Herself
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself
Anne Helen Petersen	...	Herself
Diane Kruger	...	Herself
Stephen Michael Shearer	...	Himself
Robert Osborne	...	Himself
Denise Loder-DeLuca	...	Herself

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

movie star | inventor | electrical engineering | telecommunications | sex symbol | 

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Taglines:

Icon. Immigrant. Inventor.

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | History | War

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Details

Official Sites:

Webpage

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 March 2018 (UK)

Also Known As:

Bombshell

Filming Locations:

Vienna, Austria

Box Office

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$820,300, 7 June 2018

Company Credits

Production Co:

Reframed Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Picture Mommy Dead (1966)

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Soundtracks

The Touch of You
Composed by Andrea Fodor Litkei, Ervin Litkei and Bear Phillips

User Reviews

A Straight forward biography we should all see and learn from

No trick photography, no special gimmicks. Nothing out of the ordinary is needed when the life story we're presented with is so unique. The Hedy Lamarr story is way more than a biography of an old timer who used to be a Hollywood star. It's more than the story of "the most beautiful woman in the world" whose talents well exceeded her beauty.

It's a story of our failings as a society when faced with whatever defied the conventions we live by. And the tragedy of those that wouldn't fit under the labels we like to stick on whoever crosses our path. To put it in a single sentence it's a story most of us know nothing about but all of us should. If you do get the chance just go see it.