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And with his next film, The Merry Widow, Von Stroheim scored a massive hit.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2015
A chintzy lamp dangling above us melts the food until the toppings start creeping off the bread; a signed portrait of Erich Von Stroheim looks on magisterially from the wall.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2013
Von Stroheim plays a controlling novelist and Garbo an amnesiac.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2012
People loved hating Von Stroheim, which is what the studio wanted.
From Forbes ● Jul. 1, 2011
The Great Flamarion, with Erich Von Stroheim as a jilted, jealous lover, begins with a 1 min.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Still, Weber wasn’t the only great director of the silent era who had trouble with producers and whose careers were truncated—D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim were also pushed aside around the same time.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2019
Griffith would himself oversee the production of a feature-length Macbeth in 1916, with a crew full of figures destined to become titans in the burgeoning industry: Erich von Stroheim, John Emerson, Victor Fleming.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 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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