Key part for Dave Hughes in PBS documentary telling little-known side of Hedy Lamarr - as WWII inve

Key part for Dave Hughes in PBS documentary telling little-known side of Hedy Lamarr - as WWII inventor

(I have posted about hedy's achievements before, but had no idea that it was a friend of mine who got her some of the acknowledgement she deserved)


A 1½-hour documentary, planned to air on PBS in fall 2016, will tell how 1930s-'40s movie star Hedy Lamarr, acclaimed as the “most beautiful woman in the world,” wound up co-inventing a wireless break-through that's still in use today.
One of the film's featured historians will be Westside resident Dave Hughes, whose rediscovery of the actress' accomplishment - more than 50 years later - led to her receiving a national award in 1997, three years before her death.
Hughes does not know how much screen time he will have in the flick. A crew from Reframed Pictures - a new company partly founded by actress Susan Sarandon - was in town July 21 and spent three hours interviewing him for the camera at the Black Box Theatre on Pecan Street.
Hughes said he would be surprised if more than 10 minutes is actually used, but director Alexandra Dean, interviewed beforehand by the Westside Pioneer, emphasized that “Dave is a key figure” in the documentary, which Reframed is making for PBS' “American Masters” series of documentary/biographies.
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http://www.westsidepioneer.com/Articles/081015/HedyHughes.html