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- Following her divorce in 1947, Viertel lived in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 1953, shortly after the House Un-American Activities Committee identified her as a Communist sympathizer, she left the U.S. and settled in Klosters, Switzerland.
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Jan 2, 2020 · It was a personal financial crisis that had brought Salka Viertel to California in 1928, and it was another that forced her to leave, in the early 1960s, to begin a self-imposed exile in...
Jan 11, 2019 · Because for all her success, the life was exhausting, and as the war came to an end, her own began to fall apart: her marriage with Berthold was continuing to deteriorate, love affairs were ending badly, and the perversities of studio life were becoming less and less endurable.
Her father, Joseph Steuermann, was a lawyer and the first Jewish mayor of Sambor [2] before antisemitism forced him to renounce his office. Her mother, Auguste (née Amster) Steuermann, taught the importance of hospitality, which Salka adopted during her years in exile in Santa Monica, California. [3]
Apr 24, 2019 · The Kindness of Strangers ends with Salka seeking a new place of refuge, far from the Pacific Ocean. With her script work having dried up, she could no longer pay the mortgage on 165 Mabery and...
Mar 15, 2020 · Salka played opposite Greta Garbo in the German movie version of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie (1930) and Garbo, 16 years younger than Salka, was her closest friend in Los Angeles. The rise and fall of Salka’s screenwriting career, as a Garbo specialist from 1933 to 1943, was closely connected to MGM’s greatest star.
- Jeffrey Meyers
Aug 12, 2022 · Instead, this one sits behind a curtain of citrus trees, the fruits steadily releasing their fragrance as the Californian sun slinks towards its peak. This architectural oddity was once the home of Salka Viertel, an Austro-Hungarian emigree who co-wrote many of her close friend Great Garbo’s greatest films.
The book explores Viertel's life as a Polish Jewish woman who faced two world wars and exiles, becoming an actress, screenwriter, and salonnière in Hollywood. It delves into themes of bisexuality, homosexuality, political betrayals, and the challenges of exile.
