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Best Documentary by or About Women | 2017
Audience Award Feature | 2017 | Alexandra
Clio Visualizing History Award | 2017 | Alexandra
Best Documentary | 2017
2017 | Alexandra
Documentary of the Year | 2018
Best Documentary Feature | 2018
Audience Favorite Documentary | 2017 | Alexandra
2017 | Alexandra
Best Documentary | 2017
Best Documentary | 2017
Diane Kruger appears as an interviewee in this documentary. Although it is not mentioned during the film, Kruger was at the time preparing to produce a TV miniseries biopic on the life of Hedy Lamarr, with Kruger herself starring as Lamarr. The biopic was to be an adaptation of the 2012 biography Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes. All three projects (the Rhodes book, the documentary "Bombshell," and the development of the screenplay for Kruger's miniseries) were awarded grants by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic organization that normally supports science and technology experiments and endeavors.
One of the interviewees - Mel Brooks - was sued by Hedy Lamarr for calling one of his characters Hedley Lamarr in his Western, Blazing Saddles (1974).
This film was partially supported by the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, a nonprofit organization that awards grants to female actors, writers, and/or directors of short films, feature films, and documentaries. The foundation was created by Andy Ostroy, the widower of actress, writer, and director Adrienne Shelly, after Shelly was murdered in 2006 at the age of 40.
Director Alexandra Dean spent six months researching the material for her film.
During the segment on Samson and Delilah (1949), one of the interviewees says (in voice-over), "Samson and Delilah was the second-highest-grossing film of the decade. Only Gone with the Wind surpassed it." However, Gone with the Wind (1939) was a 1939 release, and therefore didn't share a decade with Samson and Delilah (1949), a 1940s movie.
"[last lines] Hedy Lamarr - Self: [voice over] I'll read you something pretty. "People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered - love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, alternative motives - do good anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds - think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight - build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll be kicked into the teeth - give the world the best you've got anyway.""
