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Rifkind, Donna.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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