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...film includes among its large cast such once well known screen figures as Lillian Gish, Monte Blue, Lillian Langdon, Eric von Stroheim, and Constance Talmadge, while Douglas Fairbanks and Colleen Moore appear as extras...
...love with another man, cherishes his sorrow so blindly that he fails to see she has learned to love him, works himself up into such a state that he takes a pistol to her. All this comes out of an unpublished novel by Wallace Smith and Erich von Stroheim who used to go around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak...
PAPRIKA - Erich von Stroheim - Macaulay...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...