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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Bonus Episode - Hedy Lamarr and Billie Jean King

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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True Crime

4.6180K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Georgia covers actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr and Karen tells the story of tennis champion Billie Jean King and the Battle of the Sexes.

 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome to my favorite murder.

0:25.6

That's Georgia Hard Start.

0:26.6

That's Karen Kilgariff.

0:27.9

And this is a very special episode.

0:30.4

That's right.

0:31.2

This is a bonus episode.

0:33.3

Surprise.

0:34.3

That's right.

0:35.0

It means you're getting more stories.

0:36.8

You didn't earn it, but you deserve it.

0:38.8

So this episode is presented by Hyundai. That's right. Thank you, Hyundai for making this

0:43.8

storytelling bonus happen. So for today's theme for this bonus episode, we thought it would be

0:48.2

fun to connect our stories through a shared thread. Both of them feature people who were

0:52.9

innovators, pioneers, and just generally

0:55.2

ahead of their time. Yes, people who saw things differently and acted on it. That's right.

1:00.3

And are women. So thank you, Hyundai, for this bonus episode. Thanks for listening and

1:06.0

let's get into it. Let's do it. All right. I'm excited about the theme of this because it's a story

1:10.5

I always wanted to cover. It is about a really incredible innovator and a woman who is by all, what's the word? Accounts. A badass. Thank you. So today's story is about an actress who is known as the most beautiful woman in the world. For decades, her name was synonymous with beauty, glamour, and sex appeal.

1:29.7

She was even said to be the inspiration for both catwoman, woman and women, cat woman everywhere,

1:34.7

and Snow White. Oh, wow. And over those same decades, while everyone knew her name, virtually no one

1:40.6

knew that she invented the necessary precursor to some of the most ubiquitous

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