New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1971).
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Rene Clair. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Important biography of Von Stroheim by a close friend. Inscribed by Curtiss to film actor Ricardo Cortez. Thomas Quinn Curtiss, who studied with Sergei Eisenstein, was a film critic, biographer of Erich Von Stroheim, screenwriter, and companion of Klaus Mann. During WWII he was awarded the Legion of Honor by Charles DeGaulle for saving the Luftwaffe's secret film library. The recipient, Ricardo Cortez, also appeared in many movies, and seemed to gravitate towards hardboiled mysteries. Among many other roles, he was the first actor to portray Detective Sam Spade in the 1931 film of *The Maltese Falcon* and the only actor to have top billing over Greta Garbo.
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