{"id":44329,"date":"2018-08-13T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44329"},"modified":"2018-08-13T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:42:28","slug":"gal-gadot-nears-deal-to-portray-actress-and-inventor-hedy-lamarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/gal-gadot-nears-deal-to-portray-actress-and-inventor-hedy-lamarr\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Gadot nears deal to portray actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Gal Gadot is close to a deal to star in a limited series about Hedy Lamarr, the film actress who also was an inventor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44330\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44330\" class=\"wp-image-44330 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44330\" class=\"wp-image-44330 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GettyImages-908158886.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-44330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gal Gadot with her husband, Yaron Versano, at the Producers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Jan. 20, 2018. (Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Israeli star of the 2017 megahit \u201cWonder Woman\u201d also will executive produce the limited series, reportedly for Showtime, with her husband and producing partner Yaron Varsano,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/gal-gadot-hedy-lamarr-showtime-1202896766\/\">according to Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lamarr, a Jewish native of Austria, was credited with creating a prototype for a frequency-hopping signal during World War II that could help the Allies disrupt radio-controlled torpedoes.<\/p>\n<p>She&nbsp;is better known for her acting in films such as \u201cAlgiers\u201d (1938), \u201cBoom Town\u201d (1940), \u201cI Take This Woman\u201d (1940), \u201cCome Live With Me\u201d (1941) and \u201cSamson and Delilah\u201d (1949). A documentary film about the actress, \u201cBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,\u201d ran on PBS in May.<\/p>\n<p>Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, is the daughter of a Ukrainian Jewish father and a mother from an upper-class Jewish family in Budapest, though her mother said she converted to Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>She had a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia starring in the controversial \u201cEcstasy,\u201d in which she appeared nude. The film was banned in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Treem and Warren Littlefield also would executive produce the Lamarr series.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot is filming \u201cWonder Woman 1984,\u201d which is scheduled for release in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She will star opposite Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson in a new action-comedy heist thriller called \u201cRed Notice\u201d about an Interpol agent who sets out to find the most wanted art thief in the world, scheduled to be in theaters in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot also has been linked as star and producer to a film based on a recent Politico article by Peter Kornbluh titled \u201cMy Dearest Fidel: A Journalist\u2019s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro,\u201d which details how ABC journalist Lisa Howard helped establish a secret channel between Cuba and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Gal%20Gadot%20nears%20deal%20to%20portray%20actress%20and%20inventor%20Hedy%20Lamarr\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[4493,9525,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44331,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44329\/revisions\/44331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}