e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rifkind, Donna.     Subjects     Viertel, Salka.     Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.     Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rifkind, Donna.       by title:      The sun and her star...       by call number:      791.430233 V665r     Search the Web     Rifkind, Donna.     Viertel, Salka.     Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.     Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.       MARC Display

The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood / Donna Rifkind. by Rifkind, Donna. Other Press, 2020. Call #: 791.430233 V665r Subjects Viertel, Salka.   Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.   Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.   Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.   Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.   Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.   Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.   Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs. ISBN:  9781590517215 (hc.) Alternate title:  Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood Description:  550 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years, Viertel was the highest-paid writer on the MGM lot. Meanwhile, at her house in Santa Monica she opened her door on Sunday afternoons to scores of European émigrés who had fled from Hitler--such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Arnold Schoenberg--along with every kind of Hollywood star, from Charlie Chaplin to Shelley Winters. In Viertel's living room (the only one in town with comfortable armchairs, said one Hollywood insider), countless cinematic, theatrical, and musical partnerships were born. Viertel combined a modern-before-her-time sensibility with the Old-World advantages of a classical European education and fluency in eight languages. She combined great worldliness with great warmth. She was a true bohemian with a complicated erotic life, and at the same time a universal mother figure. A vital presence in the golden age of Hollywood, Salka Viertel is long overdue for her own moment in the spotlight."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 791.430233 V665r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.