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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When Hedwig Kiesler was a child, she took a music box apart and then put it ...

Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, enjoyed an early if not particularly auspicious start in Max Reinhardt’s theater, and a few bit parts in movies before the Czech director Gustav ...

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, she grew up to marry a very wealthy man, who turned into a Nazi sympathizer, whom she grew to hate. One night she took a suitcase with her jewelry and ...