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1) Ecstasy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Simple yet symbolic story of an adulterous love triangle in a pastoral setting.
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey through time to a gloriously extravagant Biblical setting of lust, violence, and betrayal in this meticulously restored Oscar-winning classic from legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille. Victor Mature flexes his muscles through such scenes as Samson's barehanded battle with a lion, a single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers and the spectacular climax where he pulls down the pagan temple.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr is Madeleine Damien, a gorgeous and sophisticated fashion editor living life in the fast lane in an age when "good girls didn't." Depressed by her tarnished reputation, she deliberately crashes her car into a tree and lands on a psychiatrist's couch. Encouraged to change her ways, she starts over with a new name and a new career. She falls in love with a young doctor (Dennis O'Keefe) but her past-life returns to haunt her. Dragged into...
5) Bombshell
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
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Series
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr became a movie legend, but her true loves were always science and engineering. During World War II, Hedy collaborated with another inventor on an innovative technology called frequency hopping. It was designed to prevent the enemy from jamming torpedo radio signals and commanding weapons to go off course. Frequency hopping is still used today to keep our cell phone messages private and defend our computers from hackers. In this biography,...
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 464 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Providing probing and detailed coverage of Hedy Lamarr's five marriages, children, various lawsuits, radio roles and shoplifting headlines, Shearer has combined extensive archival research with insightful interview quotes. The result is a fascinating biography that recreates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
Author
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ix, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
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328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A photographic tribute to Hedy Lamarr containing hundreds of personal and professional photographs, many never before published, along with private letters, memorabilia, ephemera, estate jewelry, and gowns. Features commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer."--
Author
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291 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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