The Sun and Her Stars Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Donna Rifkind

eBook - 2020

National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe 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),...

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English
Main Author
Donna Rifkind
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Kindle Book
ASINB07R9TTHCL
Release Date1/28/2020
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ISBN9781590517222
Release Date1/28/2020