April 23, 2024
*Director Erich von Stroheim's Original Bookplate GREED, FOOLISH WIVES
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This is a vintage original 3 x 3.5 in. bookplate from the personal library of motion picture actor and director, ERICH VON STROHEIM . The image features the classic theatrical masks depicting comedy and tragedy hanging from a peg on a wall with the director's name beneath them. Printed on a thin off-white stock, this vintage original bookplate is in very fine+ condition without any flaws.Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant garde, visionary director of the silent era. His masterpiece adaptation of Frank Norris’s “McTeague,” titled Greed (1924), is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights issues, Stroheim was banned for life as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died in 1957 in France of prostate cancer at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists known as Letterists, he was honored
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