Article by Heather Perry

Though you may not have heard of her, actress Hedy Lamarr was the Paris Hilton of her day — a true international sex symbol.

But Hedy had much higher hopes than Hilton, covertly helping take down the Germans in World War II, and now her truth-is-stranger-than-fiction life story is making its way to the big screen.

"The script is called 'Face Value,'" Amy Redford -- the director of Sundance fave "Sunshine Cleaning" told us. "It concerns the life of Lamarr, who was a 1940s film actress, and her collaboration with an avant-garde composer named George Antheil. They came together during wartime and created an invention that pretty much changed the nature of arms as we know it." Read more...