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Title:

Bombshell : the Hedy Lamarr story / Zeitgeist Films ; Kino Lorber ; Reframed Pictures presents ; American Masters ; written and directed by Alexandra Dean.

Publisher:

Kino LorberInc.,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Lamarr, Hedy,--1913-2000.
Inventors--United States--Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Dean, Alexandra, editor. writer, editor.
Brooks, Mel, 1926- interviewee.
Meeks, Fleming, interviewee.
Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939- interviewee.
Reframed Pictures, production company.
Zeitgeist Films, presenter.
Kino Lorber, Inc., presenter.
Kino Lorber Edu (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Interviewees: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Fleming Meeks, Peter Bogdanovich, [and others]. Originally produced as a documentary in 2017.

Summary:

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1030441784

UPC:

738329231644

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)