Von Stroheim was utterly indifferent over money and could have gone on and spent millions, with nobody to stop him .".

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

Additionally, Von Stroheim acted as one of the many assistant directors on Intolerance, a film remembered in part for its huge cast of extras.

Stowell and Phillips made The Heart of Humanity ( 1918 ), bringing in Erich von Stroheim for a part as the villain that could easily have been played by Chaney.

He reportedly kept the " von " name in homage to Erich von Stroheim and Josef von Sternberg, both of whom also added it later in life.

If they were customised then they could be worn securely with no effort, though periodic adjustment is a fact of life for monocle wearers to keep the monocle from popping, as can be seen in films featuring Erich von Stroheim.

Working in France on the eve of World War II, Stroheim was prepared to direct the film La dame blanche from his own story and screenplay.

The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband.

In 1924, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with such high-profile films as His Hour directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn ; He Who Gets Slapped ( both 1924 ), co-starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Norma Shearer, and directed by Victor Sjöström ; and The Merry Widow ( 1925 ) directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray.

The Internet Movie Database reports that famous silent film directors D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim contributed to the screenplay without screen credit.

Erich von Stroheim ( September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957 ) was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.

The Mayerling character states that he used to be one of the three great directors of the silent era, along with D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille ; many film critics agree that Stroheim was indeed one of the great early directors.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger ; he was known for being hard to work with.

At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.

Biographer Roland Flamini notes that the film was Universal's most expensive " jewel " ever in production, and its director and star, Erich von Stroheim, was taking the film way over budget.

( In the 1932 film The Lost Squadron Stroheim played a parody of himself as a fanatic German film director making a World War I movie who orders extras playing dead soldiers to " Stay dead!

Stroheim had long wanted to do a film version of the book.

However, Mathis had worked with Stroheim before and had long admired him, so it is not likely she would have indiscriminately butchered his film.

Stroheim followed with a commercial project, The Merry Widow ( his most commercially successful film ) and the more personal The Wedding March and the now-lost The Honeymoon.

In 1929, Stroheim was dismissed as the director of the film Queen Kelly after disagreements with star Gloria Swanson and producer and financier Joseph P. Kennedy over the mounting costs of the film and Stroheim's introduction of indecent subject matter into the film's scenario.

For the latter film, which co-starred Gloria Swanson, Stroheim was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In 1923, Stroheim began work on Merry-Go-Round.

David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

Von Stroheim glared at Thalberg, who was sitting behind his desk, and realized that he was no threat.

Thalberg, at five feet six inches in height and weighing less than a 120 pounds, and then only 21 years of age, was no match physically to von Stroheim.

His dismissal of von Stroheim was considered an " earthquake in movie circles ," notes Flamini.

Stroheim's most recent biographers, such as Richard Koszarski, say that he was born in Vienna, Austria in 1885 as Erich Oswald Stroheim, the son of Benno Stroheim, a middle-class hat-maker, and Johanna Bondy, both of whom were practicing Jews.

As a director, Stroheim was known to be dictatorial and demanding, often antagonizing his actors.

Knowing this version was far too long, Stroheim cut out almost half the footage, reducing it to a six-hour version to be shown over two nights.

It was still deemed too long, so Stroheim and director Rex Ingram edited it into a four-hour version that could be shown in two parts.

The shortened release version was a box-office failure, and was angrily disowned by Stroheim.

After Queen Kelly and Walking Down Broadway, a project from which Stroheim was also dismissed, Stroheim returned to working principally as an actor, in both American and French films.

Jean Renoir wrote the dialogue, Jacques Becker was to be assistant director and Stroheim himself, Louis Jouvet and Jean-Louis Barrault were to be the featured actors.

The production was prevented by the outbreak of the war on September 1, 1939, and Stroheim returned to the United States.

According to Renoir's memoirs, von Stroheim, despite being born in Vienna, Austria ( then the Austro-Hungarian Empire ) did not speak much German, and struggled with learning the language along with his lines in between filming scenes.

They are shot down by a German aviator and aristocrat, Rittmeister ( Cavalry Captain ) von Rauffenstein ( Erich von Stroheim ).

Mistaken for the undertaker to a recently deceased pet chimpanzee, he is ushered in by the mysterious butler, Max Von Mayerling ( Von Stroheim ).

Stroheim, surrounded by his assistants, then confronted Thalberg: " If you were not my superior, I would smash you in the face.

Thalberg again called von Stroheim to his office, handed him a long letter written and signed by himself, describing the problems, and summarily fired von Stroheim as of that moment.

Erich von Stroheim, an adversary who had been fired by Thalberg, likewise came to pay his respect.

Tired of being referred to as " Major Tintin " by his colleagues, Paul later shaved his hair and adopted a more Erich von Stroheim look.

The novel was filmed several times, most recently by Erich von Stroheim during 1952.

Talmadge ’ s first film for her studio, the now lost Panthea, ( 1917 ) was directed by Allan Dwan with assistants Erich von Stroheim and Arthur Rossen.

Outside of fiction, Lars von Trier, Diane von Fürstenberg, Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Dita Von Teese ( note non-standard capitalization ) and Denise van Outen added the von / van to their name by their own choice.

( 1933 ), co-written and co-directed by Erich von Stroheim.

The film was directed by Erich von Stroheim, starred Gloria Swanson in the title role, and also starred Walter Byron and Seena Owen.