Salka Viertel - Turner Classic Movies

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Salka Viertel was known for Viertel's creative screenwriting skills. Early in Viertel's screenwriting career, Viertel penned scripts for the Greta Garbo period drama "Queen Christina" (1933) and the Greta Garbo dramatic adaptation "Anna Karenina" (1935). Viertel proceeded with Viertel's career by moving on to write movie scripts for the biopic "Conquest" (1937) with Greta Garbo, "T...

Filmography

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My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exile in U.S.A. (1988)

The Loves of Three Queens (1954)

Deep Valley (1947)

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

Original Screenplay

Conquest (1937)

Anna Karénina (1935)

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Queen Christina (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Have No Time To Soothe You

Queen Christina (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Give Her Up Gladly

Biography

Salka Viertel was known for Viertel's creative screenwriting skills. Early in Viertel's screenwriting career, Viertel penned scripts for the Greta Garbo period drama "Queen Christina" (1933) and the Greta Garbo dramatic adaptation "Anna Karenina" (1935). Viertel proceeded with Viertel's career by moving on to write movie scripts for the biopic "Conquest" (1937) with Greta Garbo, "Two-Faced Woman" (1941) with Greta Garbo and the drama "Deep Valley" (1947) with Ida Lupino. Viertel also appeared in "The Loves of Three Queens" (1954) starring Hedy Lamarr. Later in Viertel's career, Viertel appeared on the Bertolt Brecht documentary "My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exile in U.S.A." (1988).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exile in U.S.A. (1988)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Loves of Three Queens (1954)

Deep Valley (1947)

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

Original Screenplay

Conquest (1937)

Anna Karénina (1935)

The Painted Veil (1934)

Queen Christina (1933)

Queen Christina (1933)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exile in U.S.A. (1988)

Life Events

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Queen Christina (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Have No Time To Soothe You First appearance by Greta Garbo, now grown up, as the Swedish queen, a historical figure, consulting with her chancellor (Lewis Stone) and her (turns out to be...) amorous treasurer (Ian Keith), early in MGM's Queen Christina, also starring John Gilbert.

Queen Christina (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Give Her Up Gladly Chat about the chambermaid (Barbara Barondess), as Greta Garbo (title character) prepares to share lodgings at a Swedish inn with fellow traveler and gentleman, Spanish ambassador Don Antonio (John Gilbert), who doesn't know she's a girl, or royal, in Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina, 1933.

Painted Veil, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Admiring Your Garden Left at home during a Hong Kong festival, doctor's wife Katrin (Greta Garbo) is intercepted by her unwelcome suitor Jack (George Brent), then attending together, in The Painted Veil, 1934, from the Somerset Maugham novel.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Choose To Misunderstand Me Director Clarence Brown with a scene perhaps as Tolstoy imagined it, title character (Greta Garbo) confronted by her analytical husband Karenin (Basil Rathbone) in MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) To Be Near You Greta Garbo (title character) has left Moscow in a hurry to get home to her son and, a little less-so, her husband (Basil Rathbone) in Petersburg, not realizing that smitten Count Vronsky (Fredric March) will give chase, in the David Selznick/MGM 1935 treatment of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) An Evil Omen Hollywood Tolstoy, as Vronsky (Fredric March) meets his mother (May Robson) and Greta Garbo (title character) makes her first appearance, at the train station, her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) attending and much foreboding, in producer David O. Selznick and MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935.

Anna Karenina (1935) -- (Movie Clip) General Officers! From Tolstoy, Vronsky (Fredric March) leads military colleagues in a demanding Russian drinking game, an early scene from MGM's Anna Karenina, 1935, directed by Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo in the title role.

Queen Christina (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Great Protestant Stronghold Many events as her highness (Greta Garbo) argues with her chancellor (Lewis Stone) about marriage, waves to her subjects, then splits with her favored servant (C. Aubrey Smith) ingocnito, by chance encountering the Spanish ambassador (John Gilbert), come to meet her, in Queen Christina, 1933.

Two-Faced Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Really Civilized New York editor Larry (Melvyn Douglas) and his Idaho ski instructor and new wife Karin (Greta Garbo) explaining things to his baffled colleagues (Roland Young, Ruth Gordon), when his forgotten girlfriend Griselda (Constance Bennett) rings, early in Two-Faced Woman, 1941.

Two-Faced Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Go To The Top Director George Cukor introduces his principals, Melvyn Douglas as editor Larry Blake, Greta Garbo, in what no one knew would be her last movie, as ski instructor Karin Borg, in the notoriously unsuccessful Two-Faced Woman, 1941.

Two-Faced Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Poetic Young Man (Greta) Garbo (as "Karin") swims, still at the Idaho ski lodge, disagreeing with her ski student, magazine editor and new husband Larry (Melvyn Douglas) about who will return to New York, his partner (Roland Young) and secretary (Ruth Gordon) standing back, in George Cukor's Two-Faced Woman, 1941.

Conquest (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Not The Age Of Gods Now in Warsaw, and MGM's reproduction of the Poniatowski palace, the French emperor Napoleon (Charles Boyer) eschews protocol to renew his pursuit of the Countess Waleska (Greta Garbo), in Conquest, 1937, directed by Clarence Brown.

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