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Filmmaker Angela Robinson explores the love story that led to Wonder Woman

Timing is a funny thing. If noted psychologist William Moulton Marston and his wife, Elizabeth Marston, had not both fallen in love with the woman Olive Byrne, would he have gone on to create the character of Wonder Woman?

And if writer-director Angela Robinson had not worked for years researching their story so that her film arrived a few months after the Wonder Woman character's blockbuster solo big-screen debut, would audience interest be as high?

These are questions that cannot be answered, of course. But with Robinson's "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women," which premiered as part of the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in October, what will be revealed are details of the three lives that would become intertwined around each other and a fictional

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