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von Stroheim
Erich , real name Hans Erich Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall. 1885--1957, US film director and actor, born in Austria, whose films include Foolish Wives (1921) and Greed (1923)


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In Rene Magritte, 1971, the one recognizable face is also the one "misnamed": Montgomery Clift substitutes for Magritte while in the background are an array of Johnson's signature fetuslike figures, each bearing different names - Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Gunther, Erich von Stroheim, Charles Boyer, etc.
I went rummaging through my files just before we left Washington to find the old passport, and carried it with me all the time we were in Vienna, expecting, I suppose, that I might want to show it to someone--someone, perhaps, who would bellow in an Erich von Stroheim accent, "Vere are your papers?
If Erich von Stroheim was the Man You Love to Hate, Bill Murray is the man we love to love while he's being hateful.
 
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