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Eric von Stroheim. Erich von Stroheim. When Erich von Stroheim told a story, people listened. That's because he was a master story-teller with an uncanny ear for the what he called the "ring of truth." Born on September 22, 1885, in Vienna, Austria, this American immigrant who was destined to become the toast of two coasts loved nothing better ...
Josef Erich von Stroheim was born in Los Angeles on September 18, 1922 and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. [1] His parents were actress Valerie Germonprez; and actor and film director, Erich von Stroheim. [2] He had a step-brother, Erich von Stroheim Jr., from his father's second marriage to Mae Jones (or May Jones).
The older of two sons of director/actor Erich Von Stroheim (1885-1957), Erich Von Stroheim Jr. was born in 1916; his mother was Mae Jones, who was briefly the second wife of the filmmaker. Erich Von Stroheim Jr. showed up as a baby in Charles Chaplin's Easy Street (1917), and made a few acting appearances in the late '20s and early '30s, but ...
Erich von Stroheim Jr. is known as an Assistant Director and Actor. Some of his work includes Easy Street, Two Weeks in Another Town, Party Girl, Old Man Rhythm, and Hot Water.
The lights and darks in his cynical view of humanity were always shaded tones, highlighted with symbolic artistry and black humor. Offsetting a richly textured elegance with banality, filth and deviance, von Stroheim exposed aristocrats in their pajamas and mustache bands. He focused on aberrations, idiosyncrasies, and deformities, inserting ...
1. Greed (1924) “Greed” is a silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim and released in 1924. It is based on the novel “McTeague” by Frank Norris and tells the story of McTeague, a dentist who marries his best friend’s fiancée and becomes obsessed with money.
Sep 26, 2022 · Erich von Stroheim didn’t live to see John Ford’s classic western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), but it’s easy to imagine that if he had, he’d have offered up a wry smile at the local newspaperman’s immortal exit line: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
