William Roy

Sylvain Dorange

“Hollywood icon by day, unsung science genius by night.”

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

Sarah Escorsa

I wanted to write a full review for this one but then realized I had better more nefarious things to do with my life so let’s get this over with as painlessly quickly as possible, shall we?

This graphic novel? Hedy Lamarr’s life, ridiculously oversimplified. The author puts way too much a lot of focus on Lamarr’s childhood, unleashes all the clichés about a beautiful Hollywood actress you can think of and completely skims over her career as an inventor. All this without giving any solid information about Lamarr and basically portraying her as a babe with a brain but too many husbands 🙄🙄. The cherry on the cake shrimp on the paella? This graphic novel feels as if it was aimed at juvenile simpletons. 



My thoughts exactly.

There are tens of online articles that offer more in-depth information about Lamarr than this book (I recommend this one) and the 2017 documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story can be watched online for free, so waste your time and ill-gotten gains money on this graphic novel you should not. You’re welcome and stuff.



[Pre-review nonsense]

Well this was ever-so-slightly fascinating.



Pretty much, yes.

➽ Review to come and stuff.

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

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