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This Peggy Lee biopic will explore the professional and personal life of one of America's most iconic recording artists and performers. A singer, songwriter, composer and actress, Lee's career spanned nearly seven decades.

The story centers on the formative years of theoretical physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein's life. The story will span from 1902 to 1939, which is six years after Einstein emigrated to the U.S. to escape rising Nazism.

In the early 1960s, Helen Gurley writes the blockbuster book "Sex and the Single Girl" and then takes the top job at floundering magazine Cosmo. She remakes the magazine and turns it into a cultural powerhouse.

Follows Pam Grier, the iconic African American female sex symbol and action star from the 1970Œs.

Follows the 1980s rise of the Grammy-winning German-French R&B duo, as well as their fall after it emerges that they lip-synch all of their songs.

A former J. Walter Thompson executive finds himself down and out when he is downsized out of a job. In his 60s and in a personal dilema because of an affair that ended his marriage, he sees his luck change when he enters a Starbucks and walks out with a job offer from the store's manager, giving his life new purpose.

Boxer Joe Louis becomes a symbolic figure in boxing during early global tensions leading to World War II.

The life of of Stylianos Kyriakides, who won the 1946 Boston Marathon after escaping execution during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

Set in post-WWI England, George Mallory, an English mountaineer, attempts to scale Everest. He and his climbing partner disappear in 1924 -- only 800 feet from the summit before clouds close in on them both.

The story of songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert ("Baby Come Back," "Rhinestone Cowboy"). A songwriter/producer achieves rock star status late in life when he goes on a singing tour of the Philippines, and discovers he is to Filipinos what Jerry Lewis is to the French.

The biopic of Mildred Burke, the first ever million dollar female athlete and champion pro-wrestler who pioneered the sport.

L. Frank Baum is prolific writer who becomes known for the children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." He writes 13 sequels to the hit book.

Chronicles the last six years of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's life before his death in 1983.

Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.

Between 1959 and 1963, Dr. Gilbert Mason, a Biloxi physician, leads nonviolent "wade-ins" against segregation on Gulf Coast beaches. The protests spark violence from whites and results in the first successful anti-discrimination suit against the state of Mississippi.

A biopic of a young activist Rosa Parks seeking justice for 24-year-old wife and mother Recy Taylor, who was brutally gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944.

A biopic of actress Audrey Hepburn who appeared in such films as .Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady.

Ruth Handler turns the toy industry upside down by creating a grown-up doll for girls after watching her daughter at play.

In the 1920's, Bill Tilden dominates tennis and wins six straight US Open singles titles, including becoming the first American to win Wimbledon. As much as he is celebrated, he is also extremely self destructive, goes to jail twice for sexual misbehavior with teenage boys and ultimately dies penniless.