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
Mr. Kehr points out that where Thalberg made his reputation reining in the imperious and profligate Erich von Stroheim, Laemmle began his career by hiring Fejos, another art-minded, free-spending European.
From New York Times • May 10, 2016
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
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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