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Sunset Boulevard
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35 editions published between 1950 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 2,155 libraries worldwide Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance, setting tragedy into motion.
La grande illusion
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11 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in French and English and held by 1,349 libraries worldwide Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt.
The birth of a nation
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3 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and French and held by 571 libraries worldwide This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.
Greed
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22 editions published between 1924 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 549 libraries worldwide The story of three Californians whose friendship is destroyed by avarice after one wins a lottery jackpot.
Grand illusion
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55 editions published between 1936 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 479 libraries worldwide Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts.
The complete Greed of Erich von Stroheim : a reconstruction of the film in 348 still photos following the original screenplay, plus 52 production stills
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5 editions published between 1972 and 1973 in English and held by 473 libraries worldwide
Greed; a film
by Erich Von Stroheim
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9 editions published between 1972 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 445 libraries worldwide
Foolish wives
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40 editions published between 1921 and 2006 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 390 libraries worldwide A fake Russian count, with the aid of two female accomplices, attempts to seduce and swindle unsuspecting women and citizens of Monte Carlo.
The Complete Wedding march of Erich von Stroheim
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1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 324 libraries worldwide
Sunset Blvd
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2 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 273 libraries worldwide The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
La grande illusion
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5 editions published between 1984 and 1999 in French and English and held by 180 libraries worldwide Two French air corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in attempts to escape. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape.
Sunset Blvd
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7 editions published between 1950 and 2003 in English and German and held by 169 libraries worldwide A harsh look at Hollywood in which an aging silent-movie queen makes a tragic attempt to return to stardom.
Queen Kelly
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36 editions published between 1927 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 167 libraries worldwide A gothic romance in which a convent girl is seduced by a prince and inherits a brothel in Africa before he finds her again.
Queen Kelly
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2 editions published between 1986 and 2003 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 149 libraries worldwide A gothic romance in which a convent girl is seduced by a prince and inherits a brothel in Africa before he finds her again.
The wedding march
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5 editions published between 1927 and 2001 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 141 libraries worldwide This romantic tale is set against the unrest of pre-World War I Vienna. Von Stroheim vows to marry any woman of wealth his royal parents choose for him, but falls in love with a poor girl and realizes that the greatest wealth of a marriage is love.
Five graves to Cairo
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6 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in English and Spanish and held by 137 libraries worldwide World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant.
Mad love
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide Mad love: A famed surgeon adores an actress, but when she turns to him to repair her pianist husband's severed hands, he replaces them with the hands of a murderer.
Queen Kelly : the complete screenplay
by Erich Von Stroheim
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3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide
Greed
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8 editions published between 1968 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 99 libraries worldwide
Blind husbands The Great Gabbo
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 94 libraries worldwide The story of a love triangle between a self-absorbed husband, the neglected wife, and her opportunistic lover. The Great Gabbo is the story of Gabbo, a ventriloquist and a supreme egotist, Mary, his assistant, and Little Otto, Gabbo's dummy. Gabbo drives away Mary, then realizes too late how much he loves her. more
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Actors Actresses American Civil War (1861-1865) Anti-war films Biography Birth of a nation (Motion picture) California--Los Angeles--Hollywood Courtship Criticism, interpretation, etc. Documentary films Drama DVD-Video discs Escapes Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired France Germany Greed (Motion picture) History Horror films Interviews Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) Love Lubitsch, Ernst,--1892-1947 Man-woman relationships Motion picture industry Motion picture plays Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures Motion pictures, French Orphans Prisoners Prison films Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) Russia Silent films Silent films Soldiers Swindlers and swindling United States Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Von Stroheim, Erich,--1885-1957 War films War films Wilder, Billy,--1906-2002 World War (1914-1918) World War (1939-1945)
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Alternative Names
Stroheim, Eric von, 1885-1957
Stroheim, Erich Oswald, 1885-1957
Stroheim, Erich von, 1885-1957
Stroheim, Erich von 1885-1957 B 1986, M
Stroheim, Karl von 1885-1957
Stroheim von Nordenwald, Erich 1885-1957
Von Stroheim, Eric, 1885-1957
Von Stroheim, Erich.
Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957
Von Stroheim, Von Stroheim / Thomas Quinn Curtiss New York : Farrar,Straus & Giroux,, 1885-1957
VonStroheim, Erich 1885-1957 RAK alt
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English
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French (233) German (33) Undetermined (28) Spanish (21) Multiple languages (20) No Linguistic content (14) Italian (10) Russian (3) Danish (2) Turkish (1) Japanese (1) Dutch (1) Hungarian (1) Covers
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