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The excerpt reads: Hollywood was interested, of course. Lise was shown a script for a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Beginning of the End, which she dismissed as "nonsense from the first word to the last. It is based on the stupid newspaper story that I left Germany with the bomb in my purse, that Himmler's people came to the Dahlem institute to inform me of my dismissal and more along the same lines. I answered that it was against my innermost convictions to be shown in a film, and pointed out the errors in their story." When MGM countered with a much higher offer, Lise threatened to sue. "I would rather walk naked down Broadway!"

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The excerpt reads: Hollywood was interested, of course. Lise was shown a script for a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Beginning of the End, which she dismissed as "nonsense from the first word to the last. It is based on the stupid newspaper story that I left Germany with the bomb in my purse, that Himmler's people came to the Dahlem institute to inform me of my dismissal and more along the same lines. I answered that it was against my innermost convictions to be shown in a film, and pointed out the errors in their story." When MGM countered with a much higher offer, Lise threatened to sue. "I would rather walk naked down Broadway!"
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 17:07:58 UTC Robert McNees
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Nevertheless, when she toured the US in 1946 she was given the Einstein celebrity treatment.
The media tried to portray her as escaping Germany with the "bomb in her purse," but Meitner was not having it.
MGM wanted to make a film, but Meitner was aghast at all the errors in their script. She threatened to sue them for misrepresenting her story, and said “I would rather walk naked down Broadway!” than take part in the production. (Sime, p. 332)

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