Combining a rediscovered interview with reflections from her closest friends, family & admirers, Bombshell follows the bittersweet life & career of Hollywood star & technology genius, Hedy Lamarr.

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting looks and glamorous life stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication.

The special preview screening on Thursday 8th March will be followed by a live satellite Q&A with Susan Sarandon and director Alexandra Dean.

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Alexandra Dean: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story + Q&A at Curzon Bloomsbury at 18:20 on Thursday 8 March. To enter the competition, send an email to vienna@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.
Q: After Lamarr's emigration to the US, she developed a system which manipulated radio frequencies at irregular intervals to encode classified military messages. She and her co-designer received a patent in 1941 but the full impact of their invention wasn't realized until much later. The question is, who was her co-designer?
A: .1) Clark Gable .2) George Antheil .3) James Stewart .4) Humphrey Bogart