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<em>Professor Marston and the Wonder Women</em> Is a Lively, Feminist Biopic

Angela Robinson’s film follows the man who created the beloved comic-book hero and the fascinating partners he shared his life with.
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The life stories being told in are truly radical. William Marston (Luke Evans) was a psychologist and university professor who helped invent the lie detector in the 1920s and created the character of Wonder Woman for DC Comics in 1941. His wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) was a brilliant psychologist in her own right; together, they had a long and unconventional romantic partnership with their research assistant Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), who was credited as the visual inspiration for Wonder Woman (among other things, she sported a pair of

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