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

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

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National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe littleknown 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 highestpaid writer on the MGM lot. Meanwhile, at her house in Santa Monica she opened her door on Sunday afternoons to scores of European migrs who had fled from Hitlersuch as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Arnold Schoenbergalong 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 modernbeforehertime sensibility with the OldWorld 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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