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

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Rifkind notes that in 2017 when she was writing this section of the book, she was shocked by the live news coverage in the streets of Charlottesville, VA, carrying torches and shouting anti-Semitic racist slogans “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us. This book suc­ceeds as both a com­pelling piece of long-for­got­ten his­to­ry and a rel­e­vant com­men­tary on the strength of immi­grant com­mu­ni­ties. As the Swedish actress negotiated a new contract giving her the choice of directors and scripts, she challenged the older actress to come up with dramatic ideas. Steuermann, Gimpel, Baller – Between the Vienna Dream and Hollywood Reality: World-Famous Jewish Pianists and Their Routes From Galicia to Vienna and the USA".

His book reviews and author interviews have appeared in The Advocate, EdgeMedia, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Because her generosity extended to those sympathetic to socialist and Communist causes, after the second world war her passport was seized and she was deemed “a premature anti-Fascist,” not blacklisted but “greylisted” For awhile she was able to keep the Santa Monica salon because Charlie Chaplin gave her funds, but ultimately had to sell. The émigrés from Germany and Austria included Thomas Mann, Billy Wilder, Max Reinhardt, Bruno Walter, Berthold Brecht, S.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.

Salka Viertel was a recently naturalized American when Hitler’s war began, having arrived from Berlin on a visitor visa in Hollywood with her husband during one of the earlier waves of emigrating filmmakers, in 1928. As Salka noted in her 1969 memoir, “ The Kindness of Strangers,” (recently reissued by NYRB Classics), Mann always retained “the reserved politeness of a diplomat on official duty. Z. Sakall, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Klemperer, Peter Lorre, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Franz Werfel. In 1953 she was unable to travel to Europe and see (by then, her ex-husband) Berthold before he died. Martin Sauter’s Liesl Frank, Charlotte Dieterle, and the European Film Fund not only provides the first comprehensive study of the EFF but also properly credits Frank and Dieterle as the chief administrators of the fund—credit that has previously been granted to its more high-profile male directors, Paul Kohner and Ernst Lubitsch.

Salka then moved to Klosters, Switzerland to be near Christina and Peter, who helped support his mother as she wrote her memoirs, published in 1969.

Shortly after he arrived in Hollywood Waxman (you know his scores from A Place in the Sun and Sunset Boulevard) met director James Whale in Salka’s living room and composed the first of over his 100 Hollywood soundtracks for Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Their Weimar-on-the-Pacific, where they congregated on Sundays to celebrate their collective escape, mourn their loss of homeland and identity, and enjoy — in German and English — the pleasure of each others’ company (not to mention the strudel and chocolate torte), was 165 North Mabery in Santa Monica. Agreeing with Max Reinhardt, whom the Viertels ran into in New York on their way to Los Angeles, [2] Viertel herself said she was "neither pretty nor young enough" for a career in film. W. Murnau and Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, who were being disrespected by the industry that acknowledged them as cinematic masters. Members of Salka Viertel’s own family were among those refugees, as were hundreds of her friends and many more strangers.While she was able to save her mother, a brother, and a sister, other members of her family, including another brother, were murdered during the Shoah . One of her most successful roles was Marthy in the German version of Anna Christie, which she took over at the request of Garbo [2] (it was originally intended for Marie Dressler). These include Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom (2003), Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (2009), and a memoir based on his German-Jewish refugee parents’ experiences, All About Eva: A Memoir of Holocaust Survivors, with a Hollywood Twist (forthcoming, 2021). We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. In her old age, when her fortune was gone, only a few family members and friends remained to feed and comfort her, and to remember her after her death.