The sun and her stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood
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"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."--
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Biographies
History
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Screenwriters
Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography
Social life and customs
Viertel, Salka
History
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Screenwriters
Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography
Social life and customs
Viertel, Salka
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"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."--
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography
Viertel, Salka
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography
Viertel, Salka
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The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood
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The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood / Donna Rifkind
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The sun and her stars
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Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood
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History
Screenwriters
Social life and customs
Viertel, Salka
Screenwriters
Social life and customs
Viertel, Salka
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