Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan
Author Patrick Agan, among whose books are Clint Eastwood: The Man Behind the Myth and The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses, has been working on a biography of MGM star Hedy Lamarr, at one point considered one of the most beautiful women this side of Orion.
The Austrian-born "exotic" import was brought to the studio in the late 1930s, and would remain at MGM well into the following decade. Though hardly one of the greatest actresses to come out of either Europe or Hollywood, Lamarr possessed an undeniable charisma that made her thoroughly watchable in both biblical and modern tales, whether well cast or totally miscast, whether fully clothed or fully naked (as in Gustav Machatý’s scandalous [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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CALLING HEDY LAMARR Notes
Mischief Films
Georg Misch’s entertaining documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr takes a look at the woman behind the fabulous face.
Below are a few notes on Hedy Lamarr’s life and career:
Hedy Lamarr’s six husbands were:
munitions dealer Fritz Mandl (1933-1937),
writer-producer Gene Markey (1939-1940),
actor John Loder (1943-1947),
bandleader and part-time actor Ernest "Teddy" Stauffer (1951-1952),
oilman W. Howard Lee (1953-1959); he later married another dark-haired beauty, actress Gene Tierney,
and attorney Lewis J. Bowles (1963-1965), Lamarr’s lawyer in the divorce case against Lee.
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Husband #1, Fritz Mandl, unsuccessfully tried to buy all copies of the notorious 1933 Czech melodrama Ecstasy (1933), in which Hedy Lamarr (then known as Hedy Kiesler) appears nude. (In its review of the film, Variety [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2004
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CALLING HEDY LAMARR d: Georg Misch
Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004)
Direction: Georg Misch
MY PHONE LADY
Shot in digital format, Georg Misch’s entertaining documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr has the look of a well-crafted low-budget movie and the feel of a quirky independent film. That is hardly the sort of approach one would expect to find in a documentary about one of the most beautiful, most glamorous, and most synthetic film stars of the 20th century. Yet, Misch mostly gets away with it. What Calling Hedy Lamarr lacks in terms of style and depth of analysis is compensated for by a sly, offbeat look at the cult of celebrity in American culture.
In Calling Hedy Lamarr, several friends and family members of Austrian-born actress and phone addict Hedy Lamarr (1911 or [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2004
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Tags: Algiers, Calling Hedy Lamarr, Classic Movies, Documentaries, Ecstasy, Films on Filmmaking, Georg Misch, Hedy Lamarr, John Loder, Three-Star Movies
