Hedy Lamarr
Author
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio...
Author
Publisher
Bartholomew House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"They called her 'the most beautiful woman of the century', and in a decade when Hollywood still had superstars, she was a legend. These are Hedy Lamarr's uninhibited memoirs in which she conceals little about her six marriages and is outspoken about her hundreds of lovers" --
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, and the Nazis are closing in.
5) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII." --
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Journey through time to a gloriously extravagant Biblical setting of lust, violence, and betrayal in this meticulously restored Oscar-winning classic from legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille. Victor Mature flexes his muscles through such scenes as Samson's barehanded battle with a lion, a single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers and the spectacular climax where he pulls down the pagan temple.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr is Madeleine Damien, a gorgeous and sophisticated fashion editor living life in the fast lane in an age when "good girls didn't." Depressed by her tarnished reputation, she deliberately crashes her car into a tree and lands on a psychiatrist's couch. Encouraged to change her ways, she starts over with a new name and a new career. She falls in love with a young doctor (Dennis O'Keefe) but her past-life returns to haunt her. Dragged into...
Publisher
Dreamline
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Algiers: The romantic and mysterious Casbah is the perfect refuge for a celebrated thief--until he risks it all for the love of a beautiful woman.
Home town story: An ex-politician blames big business for his failure to get re-elected. To expose big business as an evil monster he joins his uncle's newspaper. When his little sister is caught in a cave-in, the town's largest company comes to her aid and he must reconsider.
The outlaw: Western legends...
10) Algiers
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Charles Boyer plays Pepe le Moko, a notorious thief hiding out in the Casbah, who falls in love with a wealthy tourist, played by Heddy Lamarr.
11) Comrade X
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter "Mac" Thompson is hunky and self-confident. Together, in pre-World War II Russia, the two share an adventure involving secret identities, a marriage of convenience, hairbreadth escapes and a thrilling tank-chase as Mac tries to help Theodore leave for the USA one step ahead of the corrupt secret police.
Series
Publisher
Acme DVD Works
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
The strange woman: A strong-willed young lady in 19th century Maine affects the lives of three very different men.
Dishonored lady: A glamorous but neurotic art director for a leading women's magazine finds herself under suspicion of murder.
13) Ziegfeld girl
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Success and heartbreak are awaiting three young women chosen for the Ziegfeld follies.
Series
fabulous forties ; 9
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the Army: a musical is put on for the servicemen fighting in World War I and a soldier who performed int he show heads off to war, he is wounded and forced to give up his career as a performer and become a producer. When World War II breaks out, the cast of the original musical decide to stage a new version for the servicemen heading off to fight.
That uncertain feeling: after developing a case of hiccups, a married woman visits a psychiatrist...
Series
Fabulous forties ; 3
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jungle book: adapted from Rudyard Kipling's story about Mowgli, a boy raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves after being lost there as an infant.
Dick Tracy's dilemma: Dick Tracy is called in to investigate a fur heist. Tracy thinks it may be a possible insurance swindle but soon finds out it is much more when his police informant turns up murdered.
The strange woman: a young woman who has lived with an abusive drunkard father decides that men...