About this biography
Beautiful : the life of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer, Robert Osborne is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
<p>Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie <i>Ecstasy</i>. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish heritage to become an "honorary Aryan" at the onset of World War II, Lamarr fled Europe for Hollywood, where she was transformed into one of film's most glamorous celebrities, appearing opposite such actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Trac
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- Author
- Stephen Michael Shearer, Robert Osborne
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250041838
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (162 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13