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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

  • 2017
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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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.

  • Director
    • Alexandra Dean
  • Writer
    • Alexandra Dean
  • Stars
    • Hedy Lamarr
    • Mel Brooks
    • Jennifer Hom
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  • IMDb RATING
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    3.9K
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    • Director
      • Alexandra Dean
    • Writer
      • Alexandra Dean
    • Stars
      • Hedy Lamarr
      • Mel Brooks
      • Jennifer Hom
    • 52User reviews
    • 79Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 6 nominations

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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)
    • Director
      • Alexandra Dean
    • Writer
      • 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.
    • Quotes

      [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."

    • Connections
      Features Ballet mécanique (1924)
    • Soundtracks
      Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
      Performed by Aretha Franklin

      Written by Aretha Franklin and Ted White

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    Exceptionally Good Documentary
    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

    *** 1/2 (out of 4)

    Exceptionally entertaining documentary that takes a look at the life and career of Hedy Lamarr, the actress who many consider to be the greatest looking woman to ever appear in movies. The documentary covers her early childhood, the notoriety that came with her nude scenes in ECSTASY as well as her time in Hollywood and a controversial dealing with the U.S. government.

    If you're a fan of Lamarr then you'll certainly want to check this documentary out. It starts off talking about the actress in her later years as well as a book she was to write about herself but that never materialized. The film's main draw is the fact that Lamarr did give an interview later in her life and those audio tapes were recently discovered and on display here.

    I really enjoyed this documentary because it did a very good job at covering various aspects of Lamarr's life and it didn't shy away from some of the bad stuff. I respect the documentary for being open and honest on these subjects and a lot of credit goes to her children who are interviewed here and shine a light on what was going on in their mother's life at the time all of this was going on.

    The documentary certainly pays close attention to her movies including the controversial nudity that she did and her reasoning's for it once she came to Hollywood. The good portion of the running time is devoted to how smart Lamarr actually was and how she designed a very important item during WWII and one that should have brought her riches but didn't.

    BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY is well-researched and contains a lot of great information on the actress. The interviews with her family as well as fans (like Mel Brooks) makes this a must-see.
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    • Release date
      • March 8, 2018 (Ireland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Webpage
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Bella e inteligente: La historia de Hedy Lamarr
    • Filming locations
      • Vienna, Austria(archive footage)
    • Production company
      • Reframed Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $1,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $820,300
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,000
      • Dec 3, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,092,941
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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