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Comrade X
In Comrade X, you were allowed to express your intellect, but under an assumed male name: Thompson: You don’t look like Theodore to me Hedy: I was named at the Workers’ Council Thompson: Somebody didn’t have his glasses on. Hedy: It is not glasses. It is the law. ...![III. Warhol’s Hedy: Trial and Error (Mostly Error)](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WMontez2-1080x675.png)
III. Warhol’s Hedy: Trial and Error (Mostly Error)
SCENE 2 Scene 2: “The Arrest Indeterminable Mary, as a store dick (!) busts Hedy [for shoplifting]; but I had to intrude onto the set, crawling all the way, to tap the dumb Ingrid on the leg and remind her what to do. This crawl beneath camera-level intrigued...![Image Capture–and Release!](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CorelVectorSide003.png)
Image Capture–and Release!
Grand Theft Identity:Hedy Lamarr Sues Corel Misnamed and often miscast, you would come to lament: “My face has been my misfortune. It has attracted six unsuccessful marriage partners. It has attracted all the wrong people into my boudoir for five...![Indefensible](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/defend1-1080x675.png)
Indefensible
In Dishonored Lady, you get to play the maiden-in-psychological-distress role, too bound up in knots even to defend yourself. Like Ophelia, “as one incapable of her own distress.” Tavel and Warhol put your Montez stand-in in the same predicament:...![Career Counseling](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FilmsDishonored-1080x675.png)
Career Counseling
In Dishonored Lady, after a failed suicide attempt, you end up on a psychiatrist’s couch. He advises you to leave your unsatisfying role as a high-powered fashion editor and to pursue your love of painting. Not terribly bad advice, but you still end up playing second...![PITCHING THE PITUITARY](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Anteils-Dolls-1080x675.png)
PITCHING THE PITUITARY
Antheil, a self-proclaimed expert on glandular “science,” brags about his acumen: “If the lady offers you some of her history, she will be telling you with every breath to exactly what glandular type she belongs.” “Hedy Wants You to Pitch Her...![FUNCTION#10. TRAPS: Mandl / Hollywood](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PeepShowMachine-350x675.png)
FUNCTION#10. TRAPS: Mandl / Hollywood
Once, ducking from Mandl’s surveillance momentarily, you hid in one of the rooms of a peepshow brothel—only to have to choose between being a participant in the show or facing Mandl’s wrath. What followed was “the strangest love-making any girl ever had” (23). A...![Still Lifes](http://hedy.rhizomes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PaperDolls-Cover.png)