Von Stroheim [Erich]

xxii, 357 pp. These pages contain the true details of Erich Von Stroheim's years of poverty in New York, following his flight from Vienna at age twenty-four; his first marriage in San Francisco, before he got a job in the movies as a stunt man in The Birth of a Nation, and the crucial roles that D.W. Griffith, John Emerson, Douglas Fairbanks, Carl Laemmle, Thalberg, Mayer and others played in his career.