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Salka Viertel


Born
in Sambor
June 15, 1889

Died
October 20, 1978

Genre
Memoir


Salka Viertel (1889-1978) was born Salomea Sara Steuermann in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the late 1920s, Salka and her husband, Berthold Viertel, left Berlin for Hollywood, where Berthold wrote screenplays and directed films and Salka began acting in motion pictures. There, she befriended Greta Garbo on the set of Anna Christie and co-wrote screenplays for many films. During World War II, the Viertels started a salon in their home for other émigrés. In 1942, Salka was put on an FBI watch list and later her salon was dissolved under the inquisition of the Hollywood film industry. After the war, she returned to Europe where she lived until the end of her life.

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“Those days of despair, inflation, and worry about a sick child are irresistibly connected in my memory with the sight of Ketchup.”
― Salka Viertel, The Kindness of Strangers
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