Classic Hollywood Marriages the Studios Fought to Keep Secret

Before she ever set foot in Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr had a dark past. She had been married to Friedrich Mandl, a wealthy Austrian arms manufacturer with deep ties to the Nazi regime. When she escaped him and arrived in America, MGM publicists scrubbed this disturbing marital history from her biography. They rebranded her overnight, giving her a new life story and the famous tag “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.”