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Erich von Stroheim. Actor: Sunset Boulevard. Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish. After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America around 1909.
29 de may. de 2019 · Josef von Sternberg played a central role in Hollywood’s self-mythologisation.Gary Cooper, in his foreword to the director’s autobiography Fun in a Chinese Laundry (1965), wrote of how, “He always wore the rather military gear affected by some directors – breeches, leather boots and a scarf around the neck – so that they could be considered superior to the actors, I suppose.”
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Erich von Stroheim as an early influence on von Sternberg. After the film landed in Charlie Chaplin’s home theater, von Sternberg was quickly recognized as a genius by a number of Hollywood luminaries. The following period was a mixed bag with unfinished projects and his subsequent demotion to assistant director.
Stroheim's genius lay in making his fantasy seem real rather than in reproducing actual happenings. But intermixed with his nostalgia was a clear and unswerving vision of life as it really was. In 1968, Josef von Sternberg stated that it was Stroheim's
So when Erich von Stroheim paid a call on Laemmle at his home early in 1919 (the story goes) and came away with an agreement to direct and play the lead in The Pinnacle, it was perhaps frustrating to some in the New York office, but a fairly routine occurrence nonetheless — yet another instance where Caesar’s minions failed to save him from his own screwball beneficence.
LIGNON Fanny « L'oeuvre écrit d'Erich von Stroheim (1) », 1895, n°32, avril 2001, p. 125 à 148. L'OEUVRE ECRIT D'ERICH VON STROHEIM ... Finalement, ce sera Josef von Sternberg qui en 1931 réalisera An American Tragedy. Stroheim : Les historiens du cinéma Herman G. Weinberg et Freddy Buache sont les seuls à évoquer ce
