Nazis. Viertel also helped such emigrés "find their footing when they arrived." Ross goes so far as to write that "Weimar on the Pacific might never have existed without her." With the onset of the Cold War and the McCarthy era, Viertel was among the Hollywood writers suspected of being communists who were blacklisted. As a result of government hostility raised by unfounded allegations of communism, she was denied a passport. Eventually she was granted a temporary one, but it arrived too late for her to travel to Europe to see her dying ex-husband before his death. Later life After her divorce in 1947, Salka lived in Brentwood, Southern California. In 1953 she left the U.S. and settled in Klosters in Switzerland, where later her son Peter and his second wife, actress Deborah Kerr, lived. In 1969, her autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers, was published; it was reissued in 2019. Salka Viertel died in Klosters, Switzerland, on 20 October 1978, aged 89. Selected filmography Actress Seven Faces (1929) as Catherine the Great Anna Christie (1930, German-language version) as Marty Owens The Mask Falls (1931) The Sacred Flame (1931) Screenwriter Queen Christina (1933) The Painted Veil (1934) Anna Karenina (1935) Conquest (1937) Two-Faced Woman (1941) Deep Valley (1947) Loves of Three Queens (1954) Prisoner of the Volga (1958) Bibliography Carola Bebermeier. (2021) "Sundays at Salka’s" – Salka Viertel’s Los Angeles Salon as a Space of (Music-)Cultural Translation, in: Musicologia Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies, Juni 2021, https://musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/113. SateLIT 2: Salka Vietel. Berlin - Hollywood (2021). Exhibition Stiftung Brandenburger Tor im Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin. September 8 to November 21, 2021. Añó, Núria. (2020) The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism, , , Los Gatos: Smashwords. Prager, Katharina. (2007) "Ich bin nicht gone Hollywood!" Salka Viertel – Ein Leben in Theater und Film, , Wien: Braumüller Verlag. Nottelmann, Nicole. (2011) Ich liebe dich. Fur immer: Greta Garbo und Salka Viertel. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag. References External links A webpage about Salka Viertel with images Photographs of Viertel and her siblings; mainly of her brother Eduard Steuermann 1889 births 1978 deaths Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) American people of Austrian-Jewish descent People from Sambir Austrian screenwriters American women screenwriters American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Austrian emigrants to the United States American emigrants to Switzerland Jewish American screenwriters 20th-century