The background to the life of Salka Viertel and her circle of friends encompasses the great events of the 20th century. Later, the Cold War and the witch-hunt against communism. Then, the rise of Hitler and what it meant for the Jewish condition the exile of those intellectuals who could not return to their respective countries because of the Second World War. Other themes she covers are the Berlin of the 1920s the transition from silent to spoken film, as seen from the Mecca of Hollywood. Also, like Gertrude Stein and other notorious women, she had her literary salon through which writers like Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal and many other writers passed. Murnau, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schönberg, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift. The book deals with topics such as Salka Viertel's alleged bisexuality and the number of friends she had, to name but a few: Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, F. Besides, she had a salon in Santa Monica, which was attended by a large part of the European intelligentsia in exile. Salka Viertel was a Jewish actress who emigrated to Hollywood and was popularly known as the screenwriter of the Swedish actress Greta Garbo.
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