Here is the one-act play “Dr. Fritz or: The Forces of Light”, directed by Peter Andres and starring Maura Nolan and Joe Buhecker.  Written by David Ives (“Words, Words, Words”, “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread”), this comedic 20-minute play concerns an ill American tourist named Tom Sanders (Joe Buhecker), who enters a butcher shop in an anonymous Latin American country, looking for a “Dr. Fritz” to cure his stomachache. The shop is run by an eccentric Hispanic woman named Maria (Maura Nolan), who turns out to be utterly insane …

Here’s a fun Hedy tribute! Avid Hedy Lamarr fan Peter Andres has created a fictional alias of Hedy for a series of novels he hopes to complete someday, set in a fictional European country called Vasaria. The character’s name is Maria Eppenstein and for over a year she has had a MySpace page, co-created by Peter and an online friend of his! Maria is just like our Hedy: brilliant, beautiful, elegant, and born on November 9th in Vienna, Austria before the end of the Hapsburg Monarchy. Instead of being an …

Visitor Peter Andres was kind enough to write an article for hedy-lamarr.org blog about his experience in NYC attending “Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr” book signing on October 1st. He also interviewed the author and Hedy’s friends who were present at the event all the questions that visitors of hedy-lamarr.org had sent in to me. Thanks very much, Peter. This is definitely an interesting experience for all Hedy fans. And I hope for anyone who could not attend the event will enjoy the interviews.
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New York! This figurative capital city …

Tortilla Flat is one of Hedy Lamarr’s better materials. Even though it’s not among the best films ever made, it surely at least gives Hedy a chance to act. She was lively, fierce, gorgeous as the Latino girl “Sweet”. Anyway, it is one of the films that you really should see as both Robert Osborne and Doctor Noriega both agreed on.
 

Here is the story of her marriage to John Loder taken from his autobiography, “Hollywood Hussar”
 
 
I married Hedy in May 1942 (he stated this wrong, they married in 1943). We spent our honeymoon in a log cabin at Big Bear. When we arrived we discovered that we had been allocated a cabin containing a very primitive stove. Hedy asked the old caretaker who showed is in  how she was to cool the chicken she had brought with her.
“Here John, there’s someone who wants to …

As one visitor had suggested, I am blogging about Hedy Lamarr and Errol Flynn and the project they should have made together, if other things (whatever they were) hadn’t happened. Around 1943/1944, Errol Flynn spotted his eyes on Hedy as his leading lady for his upcoming technicolor movie William Tell. The movie never came into production due to financial problems. I mourn that fact. Think of the gorgeousness of both in a technicolor! Hedy liked Errol very much in real life and had thought of him as a talented writer …

This is taken from Jean Pierre Aumont’s autobiography “Sun and Shadow.”  Hedy met Jean Pierre Aumont after she attained a divorce from John Loder and was looking for her fourth husband. I don’t know much about their relationship except for the fact that there was one. And I’m not a huge fan of Mr. Aumont but I am very well aware that Hedy Lamarr is not the easiest person on earth to live with, especially if you’re just normal people. Plus, she was then already a mother of two children, …

The Hedy Lamarr Lectures, which is hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Telekom Austria Group and the Publishing House of Vienna, is the series of 8 lectures starting on February, 22 nd, 2010, and focusing on the developments of knowledge and information in the modern society. The event was named after Hedy Lamarr to remember her significant invention of frequency hopping during WWII, without which, today’s mobile/wireless technology would have been impossible

For Valentine day, I’ll blog about one of Hedy’s love interests during the early 40s: George Montgomery.
He was one of the two very handsome Hollywood actors who came from Montana (the other was Gary Cooper!). He was engaged to Hedy Lamarr in 1942, yet for some reason they didn’t make it to the altar. Hedy, instead married to John Loder and George to Dinah Shore. However, they remained good friends and George admitted, “Hedy is the only girl I’ve ever asked to marry me.” He called Hedy, “Penny” because she …

Do you know that Hedy Lamarr had a fierily temperamental character that was completely opposite of her heavenly look? Somehow many men got intimidated of her because she was both extremely intelligent and too moody to handle. Let’s look at how many of the men in her life talked about this aspect of Hedy. The first part of today I’ll focus on actor John Fraser’s personal experience with Hedy when they filmed The Loves of Three Queens together in 1953.
In his autobiography Close up:an actor telling tales, John Fraser dedicated …