Ecstasy Articles

Hedy Lamarr, Ecstasy It's Hedy Lamarr evening on Turner Classic Movies tonight, beginning at 5 p.m. PT. TCM will be showing five Lamarr vehicles, including the scandalous Ecstasy — nudity, sex, orgasm! — made by Gustav Machatý in Czechoslovakia in 1933, five years before Lamarr's Hollywood debut in Algiers. There's no nudity, sex, or orgasms in Algiers, but there's lots of cigarette smoking — much [...]

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 [...]

Hedy Lamarr Georg Misch's documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr takes a look at the woman behind the fabulous face. Considering how often Hedy Lamarr was married, it might be a little difficult to keep track of all her husbands. Just in case, Lamarr's six husbands were: Munitions dealer Fritz Mandl (1933-1937). The possessive Fritz Mandl held the young Kiesler prisoner in their mansion until the mid-1930s, [...]

CALLING HEDY LAMARR (2004) Review Direction and Screenplay: Georg Misch Recommended with Reservations Hedy Lamarr 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, [...]