| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 90 min.)) : sound, color |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Alexandra Dean. |
| Cast |
Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Hedy Lamarr. |
| 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 secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life-from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten-BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.
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Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Dean, Alexandra, 1979- film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor of moving image work.
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Haggiag, Adam, 1983- film producer.
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Drew, Katherine, 1960- film producer.
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Jankura, Lindy, editor of moving image work.
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Falk, Penelope, editor of moving image work.
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Squires, Buddy, director of photography.
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Bullock, Jeremy, composer.
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DeWitt, Keegan, 1982- composer.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| Music No. |
MWT15390213 |
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