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  • Salka Viertel in 'Anna Christie' (1931), directed by Jacques Feyder
    Salka Viertel in 'Anna Christie' (1931), directed by Jacques Feyder
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    The Kindest of Strangers

    A new biography revives the generous life of Salka Viertel, L.A. ‘salonnière,’ memoirist, ‘Garbo specialist,’ and Jewish mother to Hollywood stars

    byThomas Doherty
  • Theda Bara in the film Cleopatra, 1917.
    Theda Bara in the film Cleopatra, 1917.
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    Jewish Bad Girl Theda Bara Never Won an Oscar

    But ‘the Vamp’ of the silent screen may have spawned today’s Hollywood starlet

    byRachel Paige King
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