Sorry, this movie sucks

How sad is this?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This is the story of Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Austrian who came to the USA and became one of the biggest film stars briefly. As was common back in the 1930s and 1940s she assumed what was considered a more suitable name for her career and she forever became known as Hedy Lamarr.She was unique in that although she had a pretty face, some consider her the most beautiful actress ever, she wanted people to know her and appreciate her for what she really was behind that face. She always seemed to attract the wrong kind of man and was married a number of times.Much of this documentary, supported with audio tapes from an interview that she did after her film career, focuses on her talent as an inventor. In the early parts of WW2 she observed that many torpedoes missed their mark and, along with musician George Antheil, was granted patent # 2,292,387 for a "Secret Communication System." A system that would allow the ship to guide the torpedo after it was launched. She used her then married name, Hedy Kiesler Markey. The patent was never used as intended and was buried by the military but much later it was discovered that another inventor used it for a communication system between ocean buoys and aircraft, and many attribute her ideas to technology that led to such applications as GPS and WiFi. Regardless she and her co-inventor never got any money from the invention.In later life her vanity did get the best of her, she had a number of cosmetic surgery procedures and her looks deteriorated. But listening to the tapes she comes across as a pretty much normal, bright person and not much like the glamorous star we saw in her movies.Good documentary.Edit: I went back and watched the DVD of the 1949 movie "Samson and Delilah" and Hedy was indeed both beautiful and talented, in fact her character is very smart but scheming and not very happy when she doesn't get her man.

I mentioned that the documentary was even-handed because all too often, I've seen biographies of various celebrities which either only focus on the bad or only the good about folks. Folks have positive and negative qualities...and Hedy Lamarr is no exception.The film is a biography of the actress that also focuses on her inventing the concept of rotating frequencies...enabling a sub, for example, to launch a radio-guided torpedo without worries about the enemy jamming the signal. It's a strange invention for an actress to have made...and the film helps to show that Lamarr was not just a pretty face. It also, sadly, talks about her personal life...which was filled with husband and husband and disappointment after disappointment. And, it talks about Lamarr's drug use (created by the studio) and her odd personality quirks. All put together, it makes for an intriguing look at a fascinating lady. Well worth seeing...and a nice film about a feminist in 1930s-40s Hollywood.

Many film lovers ONLY know Hedy Lamarr the actress whose face lite up the silver screen. Few knew of her contribution to our digital/wireless/blue-tooth enabled world through her inventive mind. Bombshell is that very story wrapped around her cinematic career. The director delivers a wonderful documentary of the great Hedy Lamarr.

Having never heard of Hedy Lamarr until discovering her by accident whilst researching some topics on the web, I was firstly in admiration of her beauty. My first reaction was "WOW". She is one perfectly, visual lady. There are many stunning women across the globe and Hollywood is a haven for them and we don't need to ask why. My initial vision of this lady immediately drew me in and I had a compulsion to find out more about who she was and what she did. The movie, which I found intriguing, brought a mixture of emotions at times both inspiring and saddening. There were comical parts (I won't spoil it by mentioning them) it was a sweet moment. It came at a point in the movie which (for me) was perfectly, sweet moment.In Hedy and her life, I see a lady who was obviously discontented due to so many marriages. Beauty - Albeit is known largely to be a blessing for some who have it but, sadly, it can be a curse for some when people fail to look beyond the physical appearances. This presentation proved this and it was no doubt the central theme.What I also noticed in Hedy, was a lady who spent her life aiming to please and to be somebody she wanted to be and at the same time, not realising just how good she was. We must remember that in the time of her life, women were expected to be 'ladies' and venturing into a man's line of work was unheard of. I think Hedy broke the ultimate taboo and pushed the boundaries of what she was 'expected' to be. Beauty comes naturally. Brains are something else.Hedy had both and it showed because she never let anybody set limits for her.