THE SUN AND HER STARS: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

The remarkable story of unjustly overlooked screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of WWII. She was a true bohemian with a complicated erotic life, and at the same time a universal mother figure. Well illus.