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On Oct. 4, 1937, a 24-year-old Hedwig Kiesler disembarked at Los Angeles’ Union railroad station. The once naked Ecstasy heroine (there’s our gal above) was conservatively dressed — wearing a light-colored, three-quarter length skirt and matching jacket. She was carrying a corsage of flowers. The newly christened Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood movie career was about to begin. Hello, […]
Studio boss Louis B. Mayer had trouble figuring out Hedy Lamarr. Why, you ask? Read on. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys here again with another look at the fascinating life and career of “Ms. Ecstasy,” the Austrian-born actress […]
Anyone who is even casually familiar with Hedy Lamarr’s movie career is probably familiar with dark references to “that weird movie” she made as a teenager that sparked a scandal across pre-World War II Europe — and almost cost the actress her Hollywood career. How times change. Today that “weird movie” is shown uncut at […]
When Bob Hope arranged for Hedy Lamarr to co-star with him in 1951’s “My Favorite Spy,” Hedy was fresh off a huge hit, “Samson and Delilah,” but not in the good graces of her bosses at Paramount. (She had refused for familiar reason$ to do a promotional tour on behalf of the Biblical epic.) […]
In thinking about Bob Hope’s film career it occurred to us that the comedian, unlike almost all film comics, starred opposite some of the most alluring women of his day. Hello Everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again beginning of new week of classic movie chat. Today we were discussing Joe’s book on Bob […]