"The little-known story of Salka Viertel (June 15, – October 20, ) was an Austrian actress and Hollywood screenwriter. While under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from to , Viertel co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina () and Anna Karenina ().
A memoir about showbiz in the Central European actress and writer, now known chiefly for her screenplays for Greta Garbo, who hosted a brilliant salon in Hollywood and provided aid to European refugees in the years before and during World War II.
Review: The Sun and Her Before LinkedIn, before social networking, before the word “networking” was even coined, there was Salka Viertel. The German emigre who arrived in California in not only fashioned her “room of one’s own” to become a suc cessful screenwriter during Hollywood’s Golden Age, she famously made room in her life and home for an.
Screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose Born in in the garrison town of Sambor, Galicia, then at the Polish edge of the wheezing Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in western Ukraine, Salka Viertel (née Salomea Sara Steuermann).
18Peter Viertel, 343. 19Forbrief Salka Viertel’s autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman’s pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood.
Biographers are authors who “The unjustly forgotten Salka Viertel, premier memoirist of Hollywood’s Golden Age and so much more, gets a vital, comprehensive biography to call her own in Donna Rifkind’s lively and engaging The Sun and Her Stars.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic.
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