Given his start by Fatty Arbuckle
    1920 One Week
    1925 Sherlock Jr.
    1927 The General
    1928 Brother in Law Joseph M. Schenck talks him into giving up his independence and joing MGM
         Factory can’t handle his improvisational style
    When his wife leaves him he retreats into alcohol and ends up writing gags, industrial films, commercials and bit parts
    1962 Cinémathèque Française revival sparks new interest
    1963 It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
    1964 Pajama Party
    1965 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
    1965 Beach Blanket Bingo
    1965 Venice Film Festival
    1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
    1 February 1966 He goes to the next level . . .




Erich Hans Carl Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall
    Son of Jewish straw hat manufacturer

    1915 Birth of a Nation
    1916 Intolerance
    1916 Old Heidelberg
        Military technical advisor

    World War I created a demand.
        He created a campaign if self promotion 
             “The man you love to hate”
    1919 Blind Husbands
        Based on his novel “The Pinnacle”
            Carl Laemmle “pinochle”

        Attention to detail

    1924 Greed
        “McTeague” Frank Norris
        42 reels - roughly 8 hours
        24 reels
        Rex Ingram 18 reels
        Irving Thalberg 30 reels

        Gibson Cowland
        Zasu Pitts (Niece of Eliza & Suzan)

    1926 The Merry Widow
         Most successful financial effort

    1929 Queen Kelly
        Gloria Swanson

    At this point he is relagated to acting in other people’s films

    1917 Jean Reanoir’s Grand Illusion
    1950 Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd.
    1957 Awarded the French Legion of Honor
Open

Small

Funeral

Queen Kelly

On the Set

Max von . . .

I’m Ready

Musical!

“If you live in France, for instance and you have written one good
book, or painted one good picture, or directed and outstanding
film, fifty years ago, and nothing ever since, you are still
recognized as an artist and honored accordingly. People take off
their hats and call you maitre. They do not forget. In Hollywood -
In Hollywood you’re as good as your last picture. If you didn’t
have one in production within the last three months you’re
forgotten, not matter what you have achieved ere this . . . “

        Part of a Eulogy delivered by von Stroheim about Griffith for
the BBC

12 May 1957 Maurepas, France

German Expressionism
    A style of art, music or writing, found particularly in the 1900s, which expresses people’s states of mind.

1920 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    Highlighted new relationships
        Film & Art
        Actor & Setting
        Image & Narrative

    Startled the intellectual public

    Success knows no orphans
        Werner Krauss’s script changed the game in the 1990s

    Hans Janowitz
        Writer and dramaturge
        Captain Austrian Army WWI
            Kid brother is killed on Italian front
        Holstenwall incident

    Carl Meyer
        Shown the door at 16
        Conflicting stories about his war service

    Hypnotized strongman at sideshow
     “Unknown Letters of Stendhal”    
    Schopenhauer

    Fritz Lang original director contributed the framing story

    Robert Wiene 

    Design
        Hermann Warm
            Walter Reimann
            Walter Röhrig
            Janowitz claims he inspired the design by calling for it to be after Kubin