Imagine being so beautiful that no one would let you be smart. That's the sad story of Hedy Lamarr, the subject of Alexandra Dean's debut feature documentary, Bombshell. After causing a splash in ...

Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful and glamorous woman in Hollywood’s studio heyday had a REMARKABLE life. Robert and Cristina Farruggia’s new musical “Beyond Beautiful,” which enjoyed a superb concert ...

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story profiles one of the most glamorous stars of Hollywood’s golden age, but it’s not your usual silver-screen documentary. Drawing on several books (most notably Hedy’s ...

"Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World" (Doubleday), by Richard Rhodes: It's always sounded like a joke in search of a punch line: ...

Gal Gadot may be best known for her work as Wonder Woman in the DC Cinematic Universe (such as it is), but she's dropping the shield and lasso to play a different kind of hero for a big TV project.

Upon hearing the name Hedy Lamarr, whom do you see? A smoldering, bejeweled temptress, perched on velour cushions, in the 1949 Hollywood classic "Samson and Delilah?" Or, a demure and professionally ...

Author Stephen Michael Shearer will be at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla to discuss his new book "Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr" on March 31. This is a coffee table companion book to his ...

Looking at them, you wouldn't think Mileva Maric and actress Hedy Lamarr had much in common. Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife, was a reserved and brilliant mathematician. Lamarr was, at one time, ...

In 1940s Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr was dubbed “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” yet the Austrian immigrant, as tomorrow’s new documentary “Bombshell” reveals, was so much more. “Any girl can look ...

What cosmic shift has brought about not one but two biographies of the 1940s movie star Hedy Lamarr? Mel Brooks fans may know her as the source of Harvey Korman's hilarious "Hedley Lamarr" sheriff in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hedy Lamarr, blessed with beauty, was cursed with the inescapable label “the most beautiful woman in the world.” The Austrian-born star never got the roles ...

In Rhodes’ newest book, the prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) once again interweaves moving biographical portraits with dramatic depictions of scientific discovery ...