Actresses often long to turn director, but how many of them yearn to turn inventor? Given the success that the screen siren Hedy Lamarr achieved in that realm—revealed in Richard Rhodes's fascinating ...

EXCLUSIVE: It was 104 years ago today that screen legend Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna beginning a bittersweet, one-of-a-kind life odyssey. The legacy of that unique journey has made Lamarr a figure ...

The new biography from Humanoids' Life Drawn imprint, 'Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life,' is set for release Tuesday. By Graeme McMillan Of all the complex lives movie stars have lived, arguably none ...

Author Stephen Michael Shearer will be at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla to discuss his new book "Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr" on March 31. This is a coffee table companion book to his ...

Old Hollywood screen siren Hedy Lamarr is trending thanks to a new biography that reveals details about her lesser known role as an inventor of technology that paved the way for wireless communication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But even if Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler in 1914 Austria) is best known for her roles, she left behind a legacy that extends far ...

Film historian Stephen Michael Shearer will discuss his new book “Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr,” at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave. (858) 456-1800, Lamarr’s exotic beauty was ...

Hedy Lamarr had the kind of life that, at first glance, sounds too dramatic, terrifying and glamorous to be real. Her biography reads like the plot of an old-fashioned noir movie — born in Austria in ...

This has been a great year for funny women, as a new generation has crushed stereotypes about feminine unfunniness both onscreen and in print. Let’s call Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling exhibits A and B.

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Actress Hedy Lamarr is best remembered as the glamorous Viennese film star who parlayed her notorious nude screen debut in “Ecstasy” into a Hollywood career. But as the PBS “American Masters” ...