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Subject: Re: Vessel of Wrath


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Date Posted: 14:37:46 01/08/06 Sun
In reply to: Susan 's message, "Re: Vessel of Wrath" on 15:04:44 01/06/06 Fri

QUOTE: FYI, for anybody who doesn't speak German, which Williams did fluently, "Von" is a nobility title. So his "accidental" slip and the way he corrected himself gives you a pretty clear summary of what he thought of Mr. *Von* Sternberg. Ouch!) Yes, there definitely seems to be a bit of repressed anger there! UNQUOTE

Another bit of trivia: Of course Josef von Sternberg added the von - he was not of noble blood - he did it because Erich von Stroheim did! Of course by the 1930s the von was academic as all titles were abolished. It was used as an affectation - Paul Heinreid who did have noble blood chose not to use it!

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