Erich von Stroheim Hello Sister Hal Phyfe photo 1933 color added 2015
by David Lee Guss
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Erich von Stroheim Hello Sister Hal Phyfe photo 1933 color added 2015
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Erich von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 - May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.
Later, with America's entry into World War I, he played sneering German villains in such films as Sylvia of the Secret Service and The Hun Within. In The Heart of Humanity, he tears the buttons from a nurse's uniform with his teeth, and when disturbed by a crying baby, throws it out of a window."
"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl. " Erich von Stroheim, 1885-1957
"Great-grandson of Duncan Phyfe, the iconic furniture designer of the early republic, Herold Rodney Eaton 'Hal' Phyfe was born in Nice, France, to a New York society family. Trained as a sculptor in France and a painter in Italy, Hal Phyfe began pursuing photography an an enlistee in World War I documenting an aviation unit of the U.S. Army in Europe. He made a specialty of aerial photography. After the war he supported himself as an illustrator supplying magazines with covers rendered in pastels. He opened his photography studio in 1926.
During the 1920s he built a reputation for his theatrical portraiture (sketches and photographs) shot on commission for various magazines. He became the principal photographer for Florenz Ziegfeld during 1930-31. He became famous for his dictum that no smiles were allowed during sittings. During the late 1920s he owned a dog who became something of a Broadway celebrity. Legend holds that he turned down a remunerative long-term contract with a magazine in the wake of his dog's death, which disabled him from talking business.
During the early 1930s he habitually wore a black tie in mourning. His melancholy was somewhat tempered when bootlegger Owney Madden entrusted his red tabby cat to Phyfe's keeping when he was put away in Sing Sing. Phyfe's notorious eccentricity of dress extended to wearing moccasins instead of shoes and dressing down in denim at debutante balls during that period when he was official photographer to High Society."
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