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 ...
In January 1966. Hedy Lamarr, one-time movie icon but not seen on screen since 1957, was arrested in the parking lot of the ...
Hedy Lamarr was ridiculously lovely. Both Catwoman and Snow White were based on her look. As a teenager, Lamarr was cast in the controversial Czechoslovakian film Ecstasy, where she ran naked through ...
Hedy Lamarr lived the glamorous life of a Golden Age Hollywood actress, starring alongside legends like Clark Gable and Judy Garland in over 18 films during the 1940s. But the Austrian star — widely ...
Along with digital video and consumer drones — cf. this week’s Leaning into the Wind — one of the greatest boons to documentaries over the past decade has been previously unheard recordings of ...
As a star of the golden age of Hollywood, her story can be read as a lifelong laboratory experiment in the pros and cons of looking like a million dollars. But there was the other side of Lamarr. In ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As Heather cleverly brings Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) to life ...
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), ...
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