255 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2012 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
5 stars
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Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave.
Subjects
- Fiction
- History
- Americans
- World War, 1939-1945
- Motion picture producers and directors
Places
- United States
- Paris
- Paris (France)
- France
- Europe