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

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Publisher
Other Press, LLC
ISBN-10
163542092X
ISBN-13
9781635420920
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050386288

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sun and Her Stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Donna Rifkind
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
11.7 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220520
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Reviews
"Rifkind sees the worldly yet unassuming Viertel as at once an extraordinary character and a telling representative of something larger than herself. She's right to...A labor of love and careful research...startling and powerful...[Rifkind's] generosity of spirit and attention to detail suit a book about this 'mother of exiles,' who was always welcoming outsiders in." -- New York Times Book Review "Moving...brilliant...[Rifkind] performs an act of spiritual as well as cultural resurrection...Like the multitudes who came to 165 Mabery Road, you'll be glad you met [Salka Viertel]." -- Wall Street Journal "Rifkind regularly takes issue with previous cultural historians who have denigrated Salka's importance as a screenwriter...Rifkind writes engagingly and often passionately...[Salka's] had been a remarkable life and she had been blessed with extraordinary friends, as Donna Rifkind again shows us." -- Washington Post "Rifkind makes a passionate case for rescuing her subject from anonymity...[She] has done an enormous service in spotlighting the life of Salka Viertel: not only by telling a story that deserves to be better known, but also by implicitly making the case for more such books." -- Harper's "Among mid-twentieth-century America's most influential women, Salka Viertel finally gets her due in Donna Rifkind's marvelous, knowledgeable The Sun and Her Stars ." -- Boston Herald "An immersive biography...Chock-full of scandalous affairs and wartime atmosphere, this sparkling account brings overdue attention to a woman who helped make Hollywood's golden age possible." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive...Rifkind chronicles in meticulous detail Salka's substantial career in a hostile Hollywood studio system that regularly ignored the contributions of women...An impassioned and revelatory biography." -- Kirkus Reviews "A study of a complex, openhearted woman who had a key role in saving the displaced while shaping mid-20th-century Hollywood. Rifkind has penned a perceptive, exhaustively researched contribution to social and film history." -- Library Journal "[Rifkind is] a superlative chronicler of Old Hollywood...This tour de force of a biography tells the story of an overlooked hero who helped make Hollywood's golden age gleam." -- Shelf Awareness "In The Sun and Her Stars , Donna Rifkind delves into the fascinating, complex life and work of one of Hollywood's unsung screenwriting legends and emerges with a rich and illuminating biography, one that Salka Viertel herself would have undoubtedly adored." --Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece "This book elegantly captures a splendid life and career worth remembering, its moving central portrait set like a brave feminist jewel amidst treacherous crosscurrents of history, in Europe and Hollywood, which echo eerily today." --Patrick McGilligan, coauthor of Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist "The best biographies tell the story not only of the individual but of the entire milieu in which they lived. Donna Rifkind does exactly this in her examination of Salka Viertel, a figure mostly unknown to the general public but whose life is a winding line from prewar Vienna to the coast of California at the dawn of Hollywood. This book is smart, questioning, insightful, and ultimately impossible to put down." --Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms: A Novel "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
Dewey Decimal
892.8
Synopsis
National Jewish Book Award Finalist 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., National Jewish Book Award Finalist 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 emigres 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., The remarkable story of unjustly overlooked 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 II. 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 ever 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 united great worldliness and 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 Holly-wood, Salka Viertel is long overdue for her own moment in the spotlight. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
PN2287.V47R54 2021

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