Despite her success on German and Austrian stages, Salka Viertel was only modestly successful as an actor in movies. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.

Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. is especially noteworthy, as is her examination of Viennese modernism, Berthold Viertel: Eine Biografie der Wiener Moderne.The émigrés from Germany and Austria included Thomas Mann, Billy Wilder, Max Reinhardt, Bruno Walter, Berthold Brecht, S. Queen Christina” (1933) ranks with “Camille” (1936) and “Ninotchka” (1939) as one of Garbo’s three greatest sound films. As a result of government hostility raised by unfounded allegations of communism, she was denied a passport.

Salka then moved to Klosters, Switzerland to be near Christina and Peter, who helped support his mother as she wrote her memoirs, published in 1969. Salka and Berthold became naturalized citizens, and their European-born sons, especially, Peter, eagerly sought to “become fully American. Before long, she brought her sons to California, setting up household in a Tudor-style cottage on Mabery near the ocean in Santa Monica.I knew she was an immigrant from Germany or Austria or somewhere like that, and I thought of her as a wannabe, a hanger-on. When I first arrived at the DLAM and introduced myself to the archivists, one of them said to me, “We’re so glad you are here for Salka. Their home in Santa Monica Canyon was the site of salons and meetings of the Hollywood intelligentsia and the émigré community of European intellectuals, particularly at their Sunday night tea parties. James Rudin is the former head of the American Jewish Committee’s Department of Interreligious Affairs and author of seven books, most recently , Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Stephen S.