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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (12A)

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Alexandra Dean’s documentary charts the fascinating life of Hedy Lamarr, glamorous Hollywood star and genius inventor.

When Nazi U-Boats torpedo a ship carrying 83 school children during World War II, Hollywood movie star, Hedy Lamarr, decides to exact revenge. At night, after shooting her scenes on set, she works on a secret radio system that will allow the Allies to torpedo Nazi U-Boats with deadly accuracy. Her sketches remain ideas until a chance encounter with an eccentric composer enables her to transform them into useful technology.

It would make a terrific fictional film, but this story happens to be true.

 

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Hedy Lamarr, the screen siren who was called 'the most beautiful woman in the world' and starred alongside Hollywood giants like Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, invented a wireless form of communication called 'frequency hopping' that revolutionised mobile communications all over the world, a feat that would directly lead to the creation of secure communications for wireless phones, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi technology itself.

 

US 2018 Dir Alexandra Dean 88 min

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