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Lamarr enjoyed her biggest success playing Delilah against Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1950. The film won two Oscars.
Documentary. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (ZIEGFELD GIRL, SAMSON AND DELILAH) was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look.
Samson and Delilah: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury. When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
7 gru 2021 · The movie includes a scene in which Lamarr (who was unaccompanied by her parents during shooting) swimming nude and simulating an orgasm—a first in film history.
2 kwi 2014 · She starred in such films as Tortilla Flat, Lady of the Tropics, Boom Town and Samson and Delilah, with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. Lamarr was also a scientist, co-inventing an...
19 sty 2000 · Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949).
★★☆☆☆Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born actress and star of the 1949 Samson and Delilah, is given the straight-faced treatment in a documentary that gambles everything on the former poster girl’s famous sideline — she was also an inventor.
