Arena Calling Hedy Lamarr

Calling Hedy Lamarr

Profile of actress Hedy Lamarr, once described as the most beautiful woman in films. She found fame and notoriety in her native Austria by performing a nude swimming scene, and was quickly snapped up by Hollywood moguls who made her an international star. Hedy's son John Loder searches for the truth behind his mother's public persona in a documentary which also reveals her lesser-known work as a top-flight physicist who spent most of World War Two helping to develop sophisticated anti-radar devices and technology which became the basis for billions of mobile phones