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Salka Viertel (June 15, 1889 – October 20, 1978) was an Austrian actress and Hollywood screenwriter. While under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937, Viertel co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina (1933) and Anna Karenina (1935).
11 gen 2019 · Excerpted from Lawrence Weschler’s introduction to The Kindness of Strangers, by Salka Viertel, reissued by New York Review Books. The screenwriter Salka Viertel hosted salon-like gatherings attended by Thomas Mann, Greta Garbo, and other expatriates.
2 gen 2020 · 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...
15 mar 2020 · Salka Viertel (1889-1978) was an actress, screenwriter, influential hostess and effective humanitarian. She was born on the estate of her wealthy Jewish family in Sambor, western Ukraine, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Jeffrey Meyers
Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood. By Donna Rifkind. The Galician-born actress turned American screenwriter Salka Viertel was never famous, but she always made...
9 giu 2022 · Cathleen Schine. Greta Garbo craved protection, and one such guardian was Salka Viertel, a nearly forgotten screenwriter who nurtured a community of fellow émigrés in postwar Hollywood. June 9, 2022 issue. Reviewed: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
A new biography revives the generous life of Salka Viertel, L.A. ‘salonnière,’ memoirist, ‘Garbo specialist,’ and Jewish mother to Hollywood stars by Thomas Doherty
