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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