It takes a little knowledge of film history to appreciate fully the richness of Billy Wilder's decision to cast Erich Von Stroheim as the ex-husband and former director turned butler to Gloria Swanson ...

The Venice Film Festival has set as its pre-opening event the launch of a freshly restored — and re-imagined — version of Erich von Stroheim’s controversial 1929 silent movie “Queen Kelly.” The ...

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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur Pat Powers for funding for his 1927 epic The Wedding March. Set during the ...

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"Greed," released 100 years ago this month, might have been the greatest movie ever made. Instead, it became something even more mythic: the greatest movie ever unmade. The original version of the ...

Queen Kelly, which Erich von Stroheim originally wrote as The Swamp, was the director's eighth silent picture and was undertaken at the behest of Gloria Swanson. Best guess is that Stroheim's full ...

Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a multifaceted Austrian-American actor, director, and writer known for his contributions to cinema during the silent film era. He was ...

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