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...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
Greed. Eric Von Stroheim is the boy that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
...Eric von Stroheim, famed cinema director: "While testifying in an effort to obtain a reduction in alimony payments to May von Stroheim (once my wife), I was interrupted by counsel. Said I: I'll smash your face.' Said his honor: 'That statement takes a $50 fine...
...Foolish Wives--the most wonderful picture in America--by and with Von Stroheim, 'the man you will love to hate'. The most costly, gigantic, superb and artistic screen spectacle ever devised and presented either in America or anywhere else in the civilized world. Reproducing in all its glory Monte Carlo the capital of the world of chance. Where Even Saints Are Sinners...