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ERICH VON STROHEIM

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ERICH VON STROHEIM
A monocle, 1½ in. diam; a theatrical cartouche pouch and belt buckle both bearing a double-headed Imperial Russian eagle devise, the cartouche containing a printed visitor's card for Comte Sergius Karamzin, Capitaine, 3e Dragons Imper. Petrograd the leading character played by Von Stroheim in the 1921 Universal film Foolish Wives; a waist belt buckle of French military style; and a pair of imitation Czarist officer's shoulder straps (the Russian devise missing one crown) used in the 1928 film The Last Command on which Von Stroheim worked as technical advisor.

拍品专文

Erich Von Stroheim played a renegade Russian count living in Monte Carlo in Foolish Wives - it was during the production of this film that Stroheim put into practise the use of realism in film-making. He insisted on authenticity and on exact replicas being made of such places as the Casino and other famous Monte Carlo landmarks. Stroheim said of production costs ...R.H.Cochrane... in charge of publicity at Universal thought $735,000 was so close to a million that he decided to call it for publicity purposes 'the first million-dollar picture..They spelled my name in lights $troheim. A lot of good that did me!.. (See G.Weinberg A Pictorial Record of The films of Erich Von Stroheim)

The shoulder straps designed by Stroheim for The Last Command played a symbolic part in the film - representing emblems of Czarist Russia.