Meaning, I guess, that she slept around.
So this is what used to happen when a female movie star turned 30 during Hollywood's golden age - her studio drops her, and she winds up with the serviceable Dennis O'Keefe as her leading man. Luckily for Lamarr, her career wasn't quite over because Cecil B. DeMille later cast her as Delilah in "Samson and Delilah."
Before that, and her time at MGM over, Lamarr made "Dishonored Lady" in 1947, starring the aforementioned O'Keefe as well as her husband, John Loder, Morris Carnovsky, William Lundigan, Natalie Schaefer, Paul Cavanaugh, and Margaret Hamilton.
Lamarr plays Madeleine, the beautiful, glamorous, editor of a Manhattan magazine who goes from man to man, which we gather from this carefully- worded script.
After sessions with a psychiatrist, she changes her name and moves away from her job, deciding instead to concentrate on painting while getting her life and herself back together. In her apartment building, she meets an attractive scientist (O'Keefe) and the two fall in love.
However, the past returns to haunt Madeleine in a particularly vicious way.
Decent film, and it's always a pleasure to see Lamarr. There were precious few who could even come close to her beauty, even here, when she's the grand old age of 32. Though she was often cast for her beauty and sexuality, Lamarr had a spark as well as a very pleasant voice and here turns in a fine performance. She's surrounded by some excellent actors as well.
Much has been written about Lamarr's work as an inventor, but her life was fascinating even without it. There are two stories about how she escaped her first husband, Fritz Mandl, who was connected to the Nazis, as well as getting out of Austria. One is that she drugged a maid who resembled her and changed into her uniform. Another is that she wore all of her jewelry to a party and left afterwards, never returning home.
Recommended for Lamarr fans.
So this is what used to happen when a female movie star turned 30 during Hollywood's golden age - her studio drops her, and she winds up with the serviceable Dennis O'Keefe as her leading man. Luckily for Lamarr, her career wasn't quite over because Cecil B. DeMille later cast her as Delilah in "Samson and Delilah."
Before that, and her time at MGM over, Lamarr made "Dishonored Lady" in 1947, starring the aforementioned O'Keefe as well as her husband, John Loder, Morris Carnovsky, William Lundigan, Natalie Schaefer, Paul Cavanaugh, and Margaret Hamilton.
Lamarr plays Madeleine, the beautiful, glamorous, editor of a Manhattan magazine who goes from man to man, which we gather from this carefully- worded script.
After sessions with a psychiatrist, she changes her name and moves away from her job, deciding instead to concentrate on painting while getting her life and herself back together. In her apartment building, she meets an attractive scientist (O'Keefe) and the two fall in love.
However, the past returns to haunt Madeleine in a particularly vicious way.
Decent film, and it's always a pleasure to see Lamarr. There were precious few who could even come close to her beauty, even here, when she's the grand old age of 32. Though she was often cast for her beauty and sexuality, Lamarr had a spark as well as a very pleasant voice and here turns in a fine performance. She's surrounded by some excellent actors as well.
Much has been written about Lamarr's work as an inventor, but her life was fascinating even without it. There are two stories about how she escaped her first husband, Fritz Mandl, who was connected to the Nazis, as well as getting out of Austria. One is that she drugged a maid who resembled her and changed into her uniform. Another is that she wore all of her jewelry to a party and left afterwards, never returning home.
Recommended for Lamarr fans.