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Year: 1950

Director:
Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard

Max Von Mayerling: There were three young directors who showed promise in those days: D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, and Max Von Mayerling.
Joe Gillis: And she made you her servant.
Max Von Mayerling: It was I who asked to come back. I could have continued my career, but I found it unbearable after she'd left me. You see, I was her first husband.

-- Erich von Stroheim (as Max Von Mayerling) in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Year: 1950

Director:
Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard

Max Von Mayerling: You see those offices up there? That was Madame's dressing room, the whole row.
Joe Gillis: Didn't leave much for Wallace Reid.
Max Von Mayerling: Oh, he had a big bungalow on wheels.

-- Erich von Stroheim (as Max Von Mayerling) in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Year: 1944

Director:
George Sherman

The Lady and the Monster

Prof. Franz Mueller: What do I know about the brain itself? Nothing. Can it think? Remember after its body is dead? Could it be made to feel, to hear perhaps, or to express itself in some way? To contact the living?

-- Erich von Stroheim in The Lady and the Monster (1944)

Year: 1944

Director:
George Sherman

The Lady and the Monster

Prof. Franz Mueller: Would it not be the achievement of all time to keep the brains of great thinkers, scientists, authors, statesmen, alive? To derive benefit from their wisdom and thinking power, even after their death - to make them literally immortal?

-- Erich von Stroheim in The Lady and the Monster (1944)

Year: 1929

Director:
James Cruze*Erich von Stroheim

The Great Gabbo

[first lines]
Mary: Oh, I see a move. Look - eight on the nine, and then your King comes up, and that plays a Queen.
Gabbo: Will you leave these cards alone? You think you can show me something?

-- Erich von Stroheim in The Great Gabbo (1929)

Film Quotes by Erich von Stroheim