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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).
Jan 11, 2019 · Salka Viertel was a German actress, writer, and Hollywood hostess who helped many European cultural refugees escape from Hitler. Her memoir, The Kindness of Strangers, recounts her encounters with famous and ordinary people in the film industry and beyond.
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...
Salka Viertel (1889-1978) was a writer and actress who worked on several films with Greta Garbo. She was born in Austria-Hungary and died in Switzerland, and wrote an autobiography called "The Kindness of Strangers".
- Writer, Actress
- June 15, 1889
- Salka Viertel
- October 20, 1978
Salka Viertel was an actress, writer, and organizer of Jewish European immigrants in Hollywood. She co-wrote several Greta Garbo films, founded an Expressionist theater company, and helped rescue Jews in danger.
Mar 15, 2020 · Salka Viertel was an actress, screenwriter and hostess who helped many Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Europe and find work in Hollywood. She had a turbulent marriage, multiple affairs and a son who became a spy and a writer.
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)...
