The remarkable life of the Hollywood siren who pioneered groundbreaking scientific inventions that paved the way for wifi and Bluetooth will be told in a new film.

Hedy Lamarr, considered by her show business peers to be the most beautiful woman in the world during the 1940s and 50s, starred alongside the likes of Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Clark Gable during her glittering acting career.

But she was also a brilliant scientist who helped devise a frequency-hopping system which eventually formed the foundation for modern technologies such as wifi, GPS and Bluetooth.

The remarkable life of Hollywood siren Hedy Lemarr who pioneered groundbreaking scientific inventions that paved the way for wifi and Bluetooth will be told in a new film

Lemarr was considered the most beautiful woman in the world during the 1940s and 50s by her Hollywood peers but was also a brilliant scientist and inventor

Her extraordinary life is the subject of a new Susan Sarandon-produced documentary titled Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, which will be premiered in London on Wednesday as part of the Jewish Film Festival, according to the Guardian.

The film contains interviews with Lamarr's children from six marriages and traces her remarkable career from Vienna to Los Angeles.

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria in 1914, Lamarr was the daughter of a banker and a pianist, and of Jewish descent.

Lamarr, who was the basis for the cartoon portrayal of Snow White, got her start as an actress in her teens, debuting in her first film at 17, before appearing in the Czech film Ecstasy.

The film and Lamarr's appearance in it were controversial due to the sex scene which showed the young actress portraying the first female orgasm ever to be depicted in a non-pornographic film.

She went on to star in several other successful films, culminating in her pairing alongside muscle-bound hunk Victor Mature in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah in 1949.

She also appeared in White Cargo in 1941 and co-starred with Judy Garland in the musical Ziegfield Girl that same year.

Lamarr is credited in a total of 35 films, but the actress was reportedly bored of the roles she was given that were often light on lines and focused on her looks.

Her life will is the subject of a new documentary titled Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, which will be premiered in London on Wednesday as part of the Jewish Film Festival

The film contains interviews with Lamarr's children from six marriages and traces her remarkable career from Vienna to Los Angeles

'Any girl can be glamorous,' she once famously said. 'All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.'

Led by her interest of military technology and science, which she acquired in part through her marriage to an Austrian munitions magnate, she devoted her time to developing a secret weapons communications system for the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Lamarr may have had a more personal reason to help defeat Hitler. In her autobiography she claimed that her former husband Mandl struck up close business ties with the Nazi government of Germany, despite having Jewish heritage.

She claimed that Hitler and the fascist Italian prime Mussolini attended parties at Mandl's home.

Susan Sarandon produced the documentary which will premier this week

The Nazi's practice of jamming the radios of the Allies prompted Lamarr to devise the invention she became most famous for.

Lamarr even had a room dedicated for inventing in her home and she, along with composer George Antheil, created a device that allowed 'frequency hopping' which made the Allies' radio harder to intercept.

She had realised that a constantly changing frequency is harder to jam.

This idea of changing frequencies served as the foundation for the torpedo guidance system she and Antheil devised together.

Using her 'frequency hopping' idea paired with Antheil's experience with 'Ballet Meanique', they came up with a way to synchronize quickly changing radio frequencies.

The pair created a system based on the 88 keys in a piano and submitted their patent for their idea on June 10, 1941.

A little more than a year later on August 11, 1942, they received a patent for it.

While their idea was not implemented until after World War II, history proved it to be both practical and years ahead of its time.

The US navy began using it in the 1960s and the same technology is still used today in our wireless phones, GPS and by the military.

Lamarr and Antheil were later showered with scientific testimonials for their work, and they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

In 1974, when she was honored on National Inventors Day, TIME wrote, 'Admirers of the 1930s movie Ecstasy liked the unadorned way Hedy Lamarr took to the water - but they might be surprised to learn that Hedy, now sixtyish, has genuine nautical skills.

Lamarr, pictured here in the 1949 film Samson and Delilah, died in 2000 in Florida

'She is co-inventor of a system for guiding torpedoes to their targets that was considered for use in World War II.'

Lamarr, who has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, said in response to the acclaim, 'Improving things comes naturally to me.'

The inventor had plans to also join the National Inventor's Council which told her she would be most useful by using her celebrity status to bring in donations, The Scientific American reported.

In one single event, Lamarr raised $7million by selling kisses for $50,000.

In 1957, she retired from film before moving to Altamonte Springs, Florida.

There, she lived a mostly quiet life and continued working on inventions such as a pocket on the side of Kleenex box for used tissues.

She married a total of six times and was the mother to three children, James, Anthony and Denise.

The actress died in 2000 in Florida due to heart failure and chronic vascular heart disease.