Manawatu Theatre Society - LAMARR!
$27.00 – $35.00
Upcoming Performances
- Thursday 20 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Friday 21 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Saturday 22 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Sunday 23 August 2026, 2:30 PM @ Globe One
- Wednesday 26 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Thursday 27 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Friday 28 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
- Saturday 29 August 2026, 7:30 PM @ Globe One
What do you do in your downtime when your day job is Screen Goddess?
A refugee from the Nazis, Hedy Lamarr found notoriety – at age 17 – for appearing nude in a film called Ecstasy, for six marriages, for being the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, for starring in a string of Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s, for setting up her own movie studio, for inspiring Disney’s Snow White and CatWoman.
But for forty years, her claim to enduring fame was a secret; in her downtime, she invented Spread Spectrum radio. Today, this piece of technical brilliance underpins WiFi, cellphones, GPS, and other technologies, it's worth billions. Annually. And it never made her a penny.
LAMARR! traces various highs and lows in Hedy’s life as engineering genius, industrial spy, and prisoner in her husband’s fairytale castle. But beware. Not all fairytales have happy endings.
A refugee from the Nazis, Hedy Lamarr found notoriety – at age 17 – for appearing nude in a film called Ecstasy, for six marriages, for being the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, for starring in a string of Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s, for setting up her own movie studio, for inspiring Disney’s Snow White and CatWoman.
But for forty years, her claim to enduring fame was a secret; in her downtime, she invented Spread Spectrum radio. Today, this piece of technical brilliance underpins WiFi, cellphones, GPS, and other technologies, it's worth billions. Annually. And it never made her a penny.
LAMARR! traces various highs and lows in Hedy’s life as engineering genius, industrial spy, and prisoner in her husband’s fairytale castle. But beware. Not all fairytales have happy endings.