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  1. Salka Viertel (June 15, 1889 – October 20, 1978) was an Austrian actress and Hollywood screenwriter. While under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937, Viertel co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo , including Queen Christina (1933) and Anna Karenina (1935).

  2. Jan 2, 2020 · Salka Viertel was a recently naturalized American when Hitler’s war began, having arrived from Berlin on a visitor visa in Hollywood with her husband during one of the earlier waves of ...

  3. Jan 11, 2019 · The screenwriter Salka Viertel hosted salon-like gatherings attended by Thomas Mann, Greta Garbo, and other expatriates.

  4. Salka Viertel 1889 - 1978. Photo from Salka Viertel memoir, The Kindness of Strangers, 1969. Peter Viertel's Mother - Salka Viertel. (Also credited as Salka Steuermann, maiden name.) Born 1889, in Sambor, Poland, one of four children. Died October 20, 1978 in Klosters, Switzerland..

  5. Born in 1889 in the garrison town of Sambor, Galicia, then at the Polish edge of the wheezing Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in western Ukraine, Salka Viertel (née Salomea Sara Steuermann)...

  6. Jan 28, 2020 · Donna Rifkind’s “The Sun and Her Stars” recounts the story of Salka Viertel, little remembered today but a major presence in Golden Age Hollywood.

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  8. Mar 15, 2020 · Salka Viertel (1889-1978) was an actress, screenwriter, influential hostess and effective humanitarian. She was born on the estate of her wealthy Jewish family in Sambor, western Ukraine, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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