Hedy Lamarr
Gal Gadot Will Star As Jewish Siren And Inventor Hedy Lamarr
Did you know tech by Lamarr was instrumental in the creation of cell phones?
Two Movies To See At The Washington Jewish Film Festival (And On The Fest Circuit)
Hedy Lamarr is much more than she appears to be, as the film Bombshell shows, and Elliot Gould is exactly who you think he should be in Humor Me.
10 Jewish Women Badder Than Taylor Swift
A viral tweet asked if people could name anyone “badder” than Taylor Swift. The internet responded.
How Hedy Lamarr, ‘The Most Beautiful Woman In The World,’ Helped Invent Wi-Fi
Much like Lamarr herself, plans to make a film about her work as an inventor came up against a degree of ingrained sexism.
Google Doodle Celebrates Hollywood Vamp Hedy Lamarr
Nazis, sex, groundbreaking inventions, escape in disguise — sounds like the plot for the next Hollywood hit. Or, you know, real events from Hedy Lamarr’s life.
Hedy Lamarr, Queen of Hollywood Chutzpah
During her lifetime, even personal friends were unaware that film star Hedy Lamarr was Jewish. Now two new biographies — “Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr” by Stephen Michael Shearer, due out in September from St Martin’s Press and “Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film” by Ruth Barton, just out from The University Press of Kentucky — both detail how Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna to a Jewish family, her mother originally from Budapest, and her father from Lvov.
