So I started to update the gallery, guys! The first update has some more stills from "Ecstasy" and rare candids from the 30s of Hedy attending a Hollywood party. Check them out! More photos will be coming along as soon as I actually have time to scan and upload them.

I was so bored of the plain gallery look so I worked on it a bit today. The result is you have this new layout. More pictures will be added soon to celebrate it. Don't you like it better? ;)

As you all may know, the new Hedy Lamarr biography by Stephen Michael Shearer "Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr" will be released on September 28th this year by St. Martin's Press. The book signing event will be on October 1st at Barnes and Noble Book Store at Lincoln Triangle in NYC from 7:30 pm- 9:30 pm. I think this would be a nice event for Hedy fans to get together and meet the author in person and of course, get themselves autographed copies of the new book. This book is the second one on Hedy Lamarr released this year (the first one is "Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film" by Ruth Barton by University of Kentucky Press - which I have yet the time to read carefully but I will soon to write a review about it). It's really amazing that after so many years being almost forgotten, without one well-researched biography (besides "The Films of Hedy Lamarr" by Christopher Young), now Hedy has 2 new bios coming out in the same year. Isn't it time?

We (some visitors and I, are discussing about a meet-up after the book signing but we'll talk about it later). Also, there's a new post in the blog about TCM festival about Latinos in films in which Robert Osborne talked about "Tortilla Flat." Check it out!

The late 60s seems to be a harder time in Hedy's life. Her career was declining nonstop, and so was her personal and emotional life. Disenchanted by the way she was being treated by Hollywood when her beauty started to fade, and disappointed with her marriage as well as love life, Hedy caught in some emotional imbalance, though not that obvious enough to prescribed as one kind of mental disease. In the beginning of the year 1966, she was arrested the first time for shoplifting and everything started to go downhill from there. There's a new article up in the article archive written about this time of her life. Click on the photo below to read

As many people have wished to see the entire documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004), I had uploaded it to the site's Audio/Video page. I have found the documentary quite touching and creative with the focus on the impact of the telephone on the life of Hedy (she spent half of her life on the phone, she helped make the cell phone possible, and she died with the phone on her.) This is the most reliable and informative documentary up to date about Hedy so give it a try. Please click on the picture below to start watching!

More than 250 screencaps from Hedy's early comedy movie "Man braucht kein Geld" (1932) are up in the gallery. She just turned 18 when the movie was realeased and she looked so young, it's very strange to me. But she turned in a lovely performance as Kaethe Brandt, along with an actor who had made his reputation in Germany - Heinz Ruehmann. The film over all is pretty light and enjoyable.

If you want to request movie screencaps, please email Denish. Else, I only screepcap rare and/or color movies at the moment. I'll try to do screencaps of other Hedy's early movies so keep checking back! Click on the picture below to view the screencaps: