The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Direction
Alexandra Dean unearths Lamarr's own voice through rare interviews.
Editing
Seamlessly weaves 1930s glamour reels with classified war documents.
Writing
Reclaims a narrative Hollywood spent decades burying.
Director
Alexandra Dean
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lamarr's frequency-hopping patent became the basis for Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS—she's in the National Inventors Hall of Fame now, but wasn't inducted until 2014, fourteen years after her death.
The documentary sparked a minor reckoning in tech; in 2022, the European Inventor Award created a new prize named after her, finally validating the 'pretty face' who outsmarted the Nazis.
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