Photo“Any girl can be glamorous,” the actress Hedy Lamarr once said. By 1938, Hedy Kiesler had been renamed Hedy Lamarr, and she was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring alongside Charles Boyer in the romantic thriller “Algiers.” It was Boyer’s show; Lamarr was a side dish. Directed by Alexandra Dean, “Bombshell” is a very enjoyable addition to what has become a minor Hedy Lamarr industry that includes documentaries, books and stage productions. Some of the period coverage of Lamarr’s invention attests to this. Back in 1942, in that breathless story about her invention, Lamarr insisted that she hadn’t changed.

Source: New York Times November 23, 2017 19:52 UTC