{"id":50264,"date":"2019-08-02T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=50264"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T23:32:08","slug":"gal-gadot-to-play-jewish-actress-and-inventor-hedy-lamarr-in-showtime-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/gal-gadot-to-play-jewish-actress-and-inventor-hedy-lamarr-in-showtime-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Gadot to play Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in Showtime series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 It\u2019s official: Gal Gadot will portray Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in a Showtime limited series.<\/p>\n<p>The cable network made the announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot had been rumored as the leading candidate for the role for about a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli actress and her husband, Yaron Varsano, will also serve as executive producers of the still-untitled series alongside a team including Sarah Treem, Warren Littlefield and Katie Robbins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe life of Hedy Lamarr was a truly fascinating one. She stood at the forefront of many issues that challenge women and our society today,\u201d Showtime\u2019s president of entertainment, Jana Winograde, said in a statement. \u201cIn Gal Gadot, we have found the transcendent actress to portray the deeply complex Lamarr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamarr is best known as a beautiful Hollywood star, having acted 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).<\/p>\n<p>But she was also credited with creating a prototype for a frequency-hopping signal during World War II that could help the Allies disrupt radio-controlled torpedoes. Later versions of the system were used in the creation of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria, the daughter of a Ukrainian Jewish father and a mother from an upper-class Jewish family in Budapest, though her mother converted to Catholicism.<\/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%20to%20play%20Jewish%20actress%20and%20inventor%20Hedy%20Lamarr%20in%20Showtime%20series\";<\/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\/50264"}],"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=50264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50265,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50264\/revisions\/50265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}