Sun And Her Stars
Sun And Her Stars 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…
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Sun And Her Stars
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. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more.
Meanwhile, at her house in Santa Monica she opened her door on Sunday afternoons to scores of European migr s 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. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years, Viertel was the highest-paid writer on the MGM lot. In Viertel's living room (the only one in town with comfortable armchairs, said one