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050			_aPN 2287 .R54 2020
100			_aRifkind, Donna _eauthor
245		4	_aThe sun and her stars : _bsalka viertel and hitler's exiles in the golden age of hollywood / _cDonna Rifkind
260			_aNew York : _bOther Press, _cc2020.
300			_a550 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
365			_bPhp285.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction -- I. The Wishing Season -- II. Carried Across -- III. A Great House Full of Rooms -- IV. The House of Metro -- V. Fatherland -- VI. Motherland -- VII. Lifeboat -- VIII. Ilium -- IX. Un-Americans -- X. Home -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index.
520			_a"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."
650			_aSOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
650			_aLOS ANGELES (CALIFORNIA)--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
650			_aSCREENWRITERS--UNITED STATES--BIOGRAPHY
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