Word: stroheims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preminger himself was really the show. Like an Erich von Stroheim Prussian officer he thundered, "Vy are you in de vay!" at a pair of news photographers, who scurried away clutching their eardrums. To a newshen who blurred his line of vision, he roared: "I dun't care eef you are from a noospaper! You are veasible!'' She quickly made herself inveasible...
...women about their children, with men about sports. He plays shamelessly on nationalities. If the customer is Irish, he puts on a brogue. If the customer is Jewish or Italian. Moran has a few phrases to match, and he can put on a German accent worthy of Erich von Stroheim...
Once, when Actor-Director Erich von Stroheim offended Mayer (by announcing flatly that "all women are whores"), the head of M-G-M clouted Von Stroheim right on his Teuton nose. At home, though, the studio slugger cut a different figure. Early one morning he fell on his knees in his daughter Edith's room and cried un controllably until she promised to let him take over the Hollywood Biltmore for the lavish wedding he wanted for her. "He grabbed her hands," says Crowther, "held them to his face, and started sobbing and weeping until her hands were soaked...
...movies (in his most notable villain's role, he won an Oscar as the caddish critic in All About Eve). The antipathy he evokes with his frigorific stare is all the more violent because he is an upper-class rotter, and the only actor since Erich von Stroheim and Charles Coburn who can wear a monocle without looking as if he is going to drop it in his soup...