Lamarr forever

vandaag op BBC 2 om 12.00: Experiment Perilous (1944)
met Hedy Lamarr, George Brent en Paul Lukas
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr als ijskoude filmgodin.
Het hoogtepunt van haar filmcarriere ligt tussen 1938 (Algiers) en 1949 (Samson and Delilah).
Als model vind ik haar eigenlijk nog aansprekender: ze is voor mij hét gezicht
van art deco alsof ze voor eeuwig zo gegoten is, overgestyleerd en ongenaakbaar.
Experiment Perilous
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady in train. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. In New York Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick’s treatment of his wife. Nick keeps Allida, who he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house, cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly psychiatrist Baily takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
 
Bron: nl.wikipedia.org

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