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Aug 10, 2020 · The heart of Núra Añó's book her research into the relationship between Salka Viertel and Greta Garbo. By the time the two of them met at one of Salka's parties in 1930 Greta Garbo was already an international film sensation - adored by millions of fans for her great beauty and acting talent.
Jan 11, 2019 · Excerpted from Lawrence Weschler’s introduction to The Kindness of Strangers, by Salka Viertel, reissued by New York Review Books. The screenwriter Salka Viertel hosted salon-like gatherings attended by Thomas Mann, Greta Garbo, and other expatriates.
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.
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Feb 9, 2020 · Donna Rifkind takes Closer Weekly inside Greta Garbo and Salka Viertel's 'inspiring' friendship and how they 'genuinely loved each other' — exclusive!
May 29, 2015 · Her famous refuge of a house, built in 1926 and now with "tastefully remodeled by Lewin Wertheimer," is up for sale for $4.595 million. Her memoir, The Kindness of Strangers, is out of print, but...
Snapshots of a topless Garbo taken by Mercedes de Acosta when the two had a tryst in Silverlake, Nevada. Many of those pictures are still unreleased
Jun 9, 2022 · Greta Garbo craved protection, and one such guardian was Salka Viertel, a nearly forgotten screenwriter who nurtured a community of fellow émigrés in postwar Hollywood.
