The Venice Film Festival has set its pre-opening night event with the screening of Ecstasy, the Gustav Machaty-directed erotic romance drama that caused a scandal on the Lido when it was originally ...

Hedy LaMarr, the Austrian-born actress who scandalized Depression America with her skinny-dip in the Czech movie “Ecstasy” and spent the rest of her life insisting she was not just another dumb ...

“Ecstasy” is the film that liberated us all or the film that sent us on the road to hell, depending on your attitude toward erotic matters. It was so hot that the master of hot, Henry Miller, even ...

She was Delilah, Tondelayo and one of Hollywood’s greatest beauties. But eight years after she died, Hedy Lamarr is gaining renewed attention as a performer and a thinker. She is Turner Classic Movies ...

KAREN GRIGSBY BATES: Here's something you might not have known about World War II. One of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the era was also developing weapons systems for the U.S. Navy. Today ...

PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Film Series and the Petoskey District Library will show the film “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, at the library’s Carnegie Building, 451 E ...

On the Lido, Ecstasy nevertheless shared the Coppa Città di Venezia for Best Director. The audience named it Best Foreign Film and gave Machatý Best Director. The story revolves around Eva (Kiesler), ...