An Austrian Jew and wife of an abusive Nazi arms dealer. Hollywood’s original bombshell. Hedy Kiesler was so much more than the image of “Hedy Lamarr” the world thrust onto her.

The new documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,” from first-time director Alexandra Dean, is too sympathetic toward its subject to serve as a satisfying biography of the actress-inventor.

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Even by the standards of the 1930s and ’40s, Lamarr’s life was dramatic. Born in Vienna to a science-minded Jewish family, she started nude modelling in her teens and then married an arms ...

It was 10 years ago that Karina Longworth of the You Must Remember This podcast documented Hedy Lamarr’s dual role of Hollywood star and early ‘inventor’ of wifi, while it took Netflix until ...

BOMBSHELL: The Hedy Lamarr Story is an American documentary about the life of the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. But what is her story and what does Susan Sarandon have to do with it? Here’s ...

While Hedy Lamarr's patented "Secret Communication System" concept was used during the Cuban missile crisis, it is still in wide use today by the U.S. Army.

Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, is the daughter of a Ukrainian Jewish father and a mother from an upper-class Jewish family in Budapest, though her mother said she converted to Catholicism.