Delegated production / Set design / Poster by Cirque Le Roux
Born in Austria in 1914, Hedy Lamarr's image as an actress changed very quickly. In 1934, she played an orgasm in Extase for the first time in the history of cinema. This scene gave her a sulphurous reputation that would never leave her. She left Austria, became a naturalised American and signed with the biggest Hollywood studios. But Hedy Lamarr defied appearances. Although she was named "the most beautiful woman in the world", she was secretly a genius inventor, far from the film sets. In the middle of the war, she invented a multitude of things: rationing systems for soldiers, frequency hopping torpedo guidance to help European refugees cross the ocean, as well as the beginnings of Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth...
