Word: stroheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim, Anne Baxter; TIME...
...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim, Anne Baxter; TIME...
...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim; TIME...
...Conrad Veidt Above Suspicion is also a milestone: his last picture for anybody. He died last spring (TIME, April 12), age 50, of a heart attack, on a Hollywood golf course. Often regarded as Eric von Stroheim's most formidable rival as a fondler of monocles, German-born Veidt first came to fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well...
...pulp magazine or Hollywood, but somehow it turns out to be good entertainment, so everybody's happy except Rommel. The picture is distinguished by two things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...