BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017) is an award-winning documentary spotlighting Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr whose enduring impact stretches far beyond her cinema legacy and includes innovations that have revolutionized modern technology.

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A.L. Hern
Well, it’s less a matter of this being co-invented by Hedy Lamarr the actress than Hedwig Kiesler, a very smart woman who’d been married to one of Austria’s top arms manufacturers, from whom she absorbed a great deal before deciding that he and his Nazi affiliations — and domineering personality — were not the best match for a Jewish wife.