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Von Sternberg

John Baxter

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780813126012

Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5810/kentucky/9780813126012.001.0001

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Out There

Out There

Chapter:
(p.35) Out There
Source:
Von Sternberg
Author(s):

John Baxter

Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813126012.003.0008

French director Robert Florey served as an unofficial consul to Europeans visiting Hollywood for more than 40 years. He and von Sternberg became friendly when the latter, close to his 30th birthday, made a second stab at California. Von Sternberg served as his assistant. He ferreted out little weaknesses and commented on them. He opened himself to the accusation that he attempted to pay back old scores, and that he nursed grievances born of early hardships. By aggrandizing himself, von Sternberg may have hoped to end rumors that he was not named Sternberg at all, nor was he Viennese. Successive secretaries would inform callers that there was no “Mr. Sternberg” and that his family name began not with an “S” but with a “v.”

Keywords:   Hollywood, accusation, grievances, hardships, Viennese

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