 Eugen Sandow (qv) is portrayed as a typically "dumb strongman". In  real life, however, Sandow was highly intelligent and a superb  businessman. Because he was among the first men to display his  muscular body as a "work of art", he was considered to be the  "Father of Bodybuilding" and this is what his gravestone reads  today. Among his friends were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (qv),  Thomas A. Edison (qv) (who filmed him at the Black Maria Studios)  and even King Edward VII (qv). Sandows career became bigger than  ever after his association with Ziegfeld. He became very wealthy and  famous because of his mail