Word: stroheim
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...work. His satire is sometimes crude, but it has bigness and generous anger, and his too physical sense of reality is a limitation that helps to concentrate his force and sharpen his impact. At his best he has an earthy weight and vigor that suggest a more amenable Von Stroheim, a pocket Zola...
Died. Erich von Stroheim, 71, oldtime bullet-headed movie menace (Grand Illusion, Five Graves to Cairo) and pioneer writer-director of realistic films (Blind Husbands, 1919; Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925); of cancer; in his villa at Maurepas, outside Paris. After seven years as an officer in the Austrian cavalry, Vienna-born Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall came to the U.S. in 1909, drifted to Hollywood (1912) and, with his Prussian strut, cropped head and monocle, lodged firmly in the public mind (viz. D. W. Griffith's Hearts of the World) during World...
...monocles, they were the exception . . . Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old clichés . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created by those smart gentlemen in Hollywood...
Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson's comeback as a half-mad oldtime movie star; with William Holden and Erich von Stroheim (TIME...
Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson's comeback as a half-mad oldtime movie star; with William Holden and Erich von Stroheim (TIME...