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1913 – She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on the 9th day of November this year in Vienna, Austria.
1933 - She had already appeared in several European films, including Ecstasy, in which she played a love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband. She married Fritz Mandl and divorced him in 1937.
1938 - In Hollywood, she appeared in many films, usually cast as glamorous and seductive, including Algiers , White Cargo, and Tortilla Flat both in 1942.
1939 – She married gene Markey and the relationship lasted for just two years.
1941 – She was cast alongside two other Hollywood beauties Lana Turner and Judy Garland in a musical extravaganza Ziegfeld Girl.
1942 – She was briefly engaged to the actor George Montgomery.
1949 – She starred in the movie “Samson and Delilah”, which became her biggest success.
1953 – She became a naturalized citizen of the United States on the 10th of April this year.
1963 – She married her sixth husband named Lewis J. Boies and got separated with him in 1964.
1965 – She made headlines for being arrested for shoplifting; charges were eventually dropped. This situation played out again in 1991.
2000 – She died on the 19th day of January this year in Orlando, Florida.
2003 – The Boeing Corporation ran a series of recruitment ads featuring her as a woman of science. No reference to her film career was made in the ads.
2005 – The first Inventor's Day in German-speaking countries was held in her honor on the the 9th of November, on what would have been her 92nd birthday.
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