Stroheim
Americannoun
noun
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Erich von Stroheim, playing Norma’s butler, ex-husband and emotional support beam, was once a giant among silent-era directors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Paramount did not see eye to eye with Stroheim on the ownership of time.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2019
Stroheim was as detailed and observant a director working in front of the pasteboard castles of “Foolish Wives” as the desert of “Greed.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016
Griffith would himself oversee the production of a feature-length Macbeth in 1916, with a crew full of figures destined to become titans in the burgeoning industry: Erich von Stroheim, John Emerson, Victor Fleming.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015
He looked a little like Erich von Stroheim, but nicer yet somehow nastier too.
From No Great Magic by Leiber, Fritz
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