Stroheim

Selected Bibliography

~clfctfd :Bibliography I am listing only the works that directly pertain to this biography. My own collection of well over a thousand books, which I began to acquire in the late 1940s, has been, ofcourse, useful in learning the medium and its methods, but I see no reason to waste the reader's time or mine by compiling an impressive bibliography. Needless to say, I have consulted hundreds of books by stars, directors, gossip columnists, press agentsmost of which are unindexed-and in those works now blessed with indexes I have had to do the double duty oflooking under S for Stroheim as well as V for von Stroheim! Furthermore, I have done extensive reading into the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, its social and military history as well as biographies and letters ofsome ofits principal artists such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss,Artur Schnitzler (including his plays), and others to acquaint myself with the zeitgeist. Such background material has been useful for me but not necessarily pertinent for the reader. Except for books that I make a direct reference to, they remain unlisted. As I said in the preface, the most essential information can be drawn primarily from the films and scripts and from the most accurate information provided by contemporary sources. UNPUBLISHED SOURCES Manuscript Collections Academy ofMotion Picture Sciences, Los Angeles Aitken Collection, State Historical Society, Madison,Wisconsin Austrian Library,Vienna Herman G. Weinberg Collection, NewYork Public Library, NewYork Jewish History Museum,Vienna Kriegsarchiv,Vienna 493 494 Bibliography Letters from Erich von Stroheim toValerie and to Josefvon Stroheim, personal collection of Kevin Brownlow (Brownlow Collection) Letters from Stroheim to Peter Noble, Film Library, Museum of Modern Art, NewYork Billy Rose Theatre Collection, NewYork Public Library, NewYork Motion Picture Collection, Univ. of California, Los Angeles Motion Picture Copyright Section, Library ofCongress,Washington, D.C. Osterreiches Staatsarchiv,Vienna Press books, photos, and Robinson Locke Collection, NewYork Public Library, NewYork Script Collection of the NewYork Censorship Board, NewYork State Archives, NewYork. Vienna City Directories (1880-1920),Vienna Public Library Unpublished Scripts Most of the following scripts (dialogue only and footage length) can be found at the New York State Archives, NYS Motion Picture Division, License Application case files. What I choose to call the NewYork Censorship Board can be found here also. L'Alibi Alraune Between Two Women (in author's possession) Blind Husbands (in author's possession) The Crime ofDr. Crespi Crimson Romance Derriere laJafade The Devil Doll The Devil's Pass Key L'EnJer du jeu Five Graves to Cairo Foolish Wives (in author's possession) Friends and Lovers The Fugitive Road The Great Flamarion The Great Gabbo Bibliography 495 The Honeymoon (in author's possession) The Lady and the Monster The Lost Squadron Marthe Richard The Mask ofDiijon Menaces Merry-Co-Round (The author provided a treatment and the scenario to the Special Collections section of the Library of NewYork University at Albany, Albany, NewYork.) Merry Widow (in author's possession) The North Star Les Pirates du Rail Scotland Yard Investigator So Ends Our Night Sunset Boulevard Ultimatum Walkin~ down Broadway (in author's possession) Mkddin~ March (in author's possession) BOOKS American Film Institute. Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1911-1920. Ed. Patricia King Hanson. Berkeley: U niv. ofCalifornia Press, 1997. American Film Institute. Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. Ed. Kenneth W Munden. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1988. Ardmore,Jane. TIle Self-Enchanted: Mae Murray, Ima~e ifan Era. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Balshofer, Fred, and Arthur Miller. One Reel a Mkek. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1967. Bazin,Andre. What Is Cinema? Ed. Hugh Gray. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1974. Bennet,Joan, and Lois Kibbee. TIle Bennett Playbill. NewYork: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. Berg,A. Scott. Coldwyn:A Biography. NewYork: Knopf, 1989. Bessy, Maurice, and Raymond Chirat, eds. L'Histoire du Cinema 496 Bibliography Franfaise: Encyclopedie des Films, 1929-1934. Paris: Pygmalion, 1995. ---. L'Histoire dll Cillema FrLII/(Llise: Ellcyclopedie des Films, 19351939 . Paris: Pygmalion, 1995. ---. L'Histoire du Cillellla FrLlIl(aise: Encyclopedie des Films, 19401950 . Paris: Pygmalion, 1994. Bessy, Maurice, Raymond Chirat, and Andre Bernard, eds. L'Histoire du Cinema Franraise: Encyclopedie des Films, 1951-1955. Paris: Pygmalion, 1995. ----. L'Histoire dll CinemLl Fran(Llise: Encyclopedie des Films, 19561960 . 1996. Bitzer, G.W Billy Bitzer: His Story. NewYork: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1973. Bogdanovitch, Peter. Allan DlI'an...