American Masters
Season 32 Episode 2 - Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
7.4 ?
1986
Documentary
A profile of Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), who was known as the world's most beautiful woman. Behind the pretty face, however, was the mind of an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication. An Austrian Jewish emigrant, she invented a covert communication system to try to help defeat the Nazis; and it was her concept that is now used as the basis for secure WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth technologies.
Episodes in Season 32
1
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
90 min
2
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
90 min
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3
Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived”
90 min
4
Artists Flight: Eva Hesse
90 min
5
Artists Flight: Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray
90 min
6
Andrew Wyeth
90 min
7
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
90 min
8
Itzhak Perlman
90 min
