Have you discovered our Notables database yet? If not, why not start with the latest additions. Max Kreitmayer was a larger-than-life fellow known for his famous Waxworks in Bourke Street. What is perhaps less well known is the fact that each of his three wives, Edith, Eliza, and Harriett, played a significant role in his enterprises. Harriett took over the Waxworks on Max’s death and became a pioneering entrepreneur in Melbourne cinema, and has her own Notable entry.