Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

Directors

Alexandra Dean

Cast

Diane Kruger, Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Rhodes

The story

The film follows the life story of Lamarr from her youth as the daughter of assimilated Austrian Jews through her rise to fame, the Nazi onslaught, her departure for the United States, six marriages, her acting career, her landmark invention, decline, and finally her death at the age of 85 in the year 2000. The focus of the film is on her co-creation with George Antheil of the technology of frequency hopping. The film delves into Lamarr's different, seemingly unhealthy relationships with Louis B.

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