Word: stroheims
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...like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous detail. It is inhabited by two living relics: Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a great star of the silent movies, still wealthy, with an arrogant grandeur once rooted in fame and now propped by delusion; Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), once a great director (which Von Stroheim was), now her devoted servant and the dedicated guardian of her self-centered daydream...
Actor Holden plays the picture's most difficult role to perfection. Von Stroheim is equally right as the onetime brilliant director, conveying as much by swallowing hard or tilting his head as he does with any of his lines. Actress Olson is an engagingly unaffected ingenue...
...uneven mixture of effective thriller, bathos, and the kind of melodramatics that calls on an audience to hiss the villain. In Broadway Actor Lyle Bettger, a vain-looking blond with a built-in sneer, the movie also offers a likely candidate for the most hissable heavy since Erich von Stroheim...
Cinema Director Billy Wilder reported a bit of dialogue between himself and veteran cinemactor Erich ("The Man You Love to Hate") von Stroheim. Said Wilder: "It is an honor to direct you. You were ten years ahead of your time." Responded Von Stroheim: "No, 20 years...
...proceeds from tonight's showing of "Grand illusion," the pre-war French film with Eric Von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, will be donated to the College DP student fund by the Liberal Union. Showings of the film, which has English sub-titles, will be at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Fogg Museum...