Hedy Lamarr Articles

Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945), in which Bennett is a heartless tramp who abuses poor Edward G. Robinson. Now, Bennett can be seen in Tay Garnett's Trade Winds (1938), remarkable in that it may well be the only Hollywood movie in which a [...]

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 [...]

Alla Nazimova, Salome (top); Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Mata Hari (bottom) Alla Nazimova's Salome, Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra, Hedy Lamarr's Delilah, and Greta Garbo's Mata Hari are the four temptresses featured in the "Ornament and the Enchantress" film series presented by Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum. Charles Bryant's Salome (1923); Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934), co-starring Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon; DeMille's Samson and Delilah [...]

Hedy Lamarr – Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part III Did you know Hedy Lamarr personally? If so, what was your impression of her? Of those you've spoken with about Lamarr, what did they have to say about her as a person? Yes, I did know Hedy and she was delightful, a bit demanding at times but also very charming and always ready to laugh. [...]