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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

1: The 25 Million Dollar Kiss

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A kiss from her helped win the war. But her real assets changed the world as we know it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the way I heard it.

0:01.0

The End

0:07.0

Headwig was beautiful, and married to a man she didn't love.

0:11.4

Fritz was an arms merchant and deeply possessive of his trophy wife.

0:16.2

Consequently, Headwig was a fly on the wall at more than a few interesting dinner parties.

0:23.0

At their home in Vienna, Headwig listened quietly as important men discussed with her husband,

0:28.4

the evolving technologies that would change the complexion of modern warfare.

0:33.1

Fritz's guests were intelligent and influential, some were physicists, some were inventors,

0:39.2

many were Nazis.

0:42.0

Headwig didn't care for Nazis, she didn't like them in her house or at her table,

0:46.8

and she hated the fact that her husband was selling them weapons.

0:51.3

At the next fancy dinner party, Headwig selected from her vast wardrobe the most glamorous

0:56.8

evening gown she could find.

0:58.8

She adorned herself with every piece of expensive jewelry she owned.

1:03.0

She smiled sweetly during the appetizer, listened attentively during the main course,

1:09.1

and just before dessert went off to powder her nose.

1:12.7

She never returned.

1:15.0

The next morning a stunning woman arrived in Paris by train, and after that it was your

1:20.2

basic Hollywood fairy tale.

1:22.8

Headwig Kysler was discovered by Louis B. Mayer, the movie mogul.

1:28.0

A year later she was living in Hollywood and starring opposite Clark Gable.

1:32.9

By then she had a new name to go with her new address.

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