Stroheim
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Erich von Stroheim, playing Norma’s butler, ex-husband and emotional support beam, was once a giant among silent-era directors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Wilder had audiences with glittering celebs of the day: actor Adolphe Menjou, the Prince of Wales, even his future film collaborator Erich von Stroheim.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2021
With these films, the rigors of production aren’t essential to the film, even if they’re inseparable from it—because Stroheim and Coppola have a sense of style.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016
They respected directorial talent—that’s why they let Erich von Stroheim finish out his contract, even after he delivered a 10-hour cut of Greed that the studio deemed unreleasable.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2015
He looked a little like Erich von Stroheim, but nicer yet somehow nastier too.
From No Great Magic by Leiber, Fritz
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