Author Stephen Michael Shearer will be at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla to discuss his new book "Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr" on March 31. This is a coffee table companion book to his ...

KAREN GRIGSBY BATES: Here's something you might not have known about World War II. One of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the era was also developing weapons systems for the U.S. Navy. Today ...

The most beautiful woman in the world. Inventor of the basis for the technological revolution. An Austrian Jew and wife of an abusive Nazi arms dealer. Hollywood’s original bombshell. Hedy Kiesler was ...