Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr

She was called ＂the most beauti­ful girl in the world,＂ and during Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, she set standards of beauty and sophistication copied through­out the world during the three decades of her film career. When she made her American cinema debut opposite Charles Boyer in Walter Wanger’s moody 1938 romance-drama, Algiers, her character’s first appearance in that film literally took audiences’ breaths away. Her exotic beauty was heralded in picture after picture.

Glamour and Style is a photographic trib­ute to this extraordinary woman. Focusing on her spectacular beauty, it contains hundreds of photographs, many never before published, and gowns by designers from Adrian and Robert Kalloch to Elois Jenssen and Edith Head. It features run­ning commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer, author of the definitive book on the star, Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. This book gives film fans and avid readers an ample opportunity to view and understand this most remark­able, beautiful woman--and introduces her work and glamour to a new generation of filmgoers.

Stephen Michael Shearer is an actor, a former model, and the author of three highly regarded film biographies: Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life (University Press of Kentucky, 2006), Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr (St. Martin’s Press, 2010), and Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). His book on Patricia Neal is currently in post film production and stars Hugh Bonneville as Roald Dahl. His second book on Hedy Lamarr has recently been used for the basis for the PBS/American Masters feature documentary ＂Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,＂ produced by Susan Sarandon in which he and Mr. Loder appear. Anthony Loder is the son of Hedy Lamarr and actor John Loder. A businessman and founder of PhonesUSA, he lives with his wife in Los Angeles.