Look beyond the lips
Bee Wilson
- Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton
Kentucky, 281 pp, £25.95, May 2011, ISBN 978 0 8131 2604 3
Compared with most actresses, Hedy Lamarr wasn’t very interested in acting. She was an intelligent woman, capable of great things, but, beauty aside, the greatness didn’t show up on screen. If you only knew her through her performances in Algiers, Ecstasy or Samson and Delilah, you would never have thought it possible that she was jointly responsible for one of the great inventions of the 20th century.
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Vol. 33 No. 15 · 28 July 2011 » Bee Wilson » Look beyond the lips
pages 35-36 | 3378 words