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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rifkind, Donna, author.     Subjects     Viertel, Salka.     Screenwriters -- 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, author.       by title:      The sun and her star...         MARC Display

The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood / Donna Rifkind. by Rifkind, Donna, author. New York : Other Press, [2020] Subjects Viertel, Salka.   Screenwriters -- 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 (hardcover) : 1590517210 (hardcover) : Description:  550 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction -- The Wishing Season -- Carried Across -- A Great House Full of Rooms -- The House of Metro -- Fatherland -- Motherland -- Lifeboat -- Ilium -- Un-Americans -- Home. Requests:  0 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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 812.52 Viertel Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 812.52 Viertel Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Biography B Viertel Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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