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:

Nino Amareno, Charles Amirkhanian, Jeanine Basinger

8 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Nino Amareno	...	Himself
Charles Amirkhanian	...	Himself
Jeanine Basinger	...	Herself
William J. Birnes	...	Himself (as Bill Birnes)
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself
Manya Hartmayer Breuer	...	Herself
Mel Brooks	...	Himself
Danijela Cabric	...	Herself
Lisa Cassileth	...	Herself
Wendy Colton	...	Herself
Darrell Grob	...	Himself
Jennifer Hom	...	Herself
Jan-Christopher Horak	...	Himself
David Hughes	...	Himself
Diane Kruger	...	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:

actor | movie star | inventor | electrical engineering | telecommunications | 

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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

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

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User Reviews

excellent biographical film

I highly recommend this film. It's very well done, with lots of interesting film clips, interviews, and insight into Hedy Lamarr's life and times. A major theme is how beauty can make it difficult for people to see a woman's other skills and talents and abilities. She may be almost forgotten as a Hollywood beauty, and the value of her contribution to modern technology isn't too well known - which is a terrible shame.