Through her father, her second husband Ledebur, and her own acting and touring in the US, IT
met and formed friendships with various Hollywood stars, including Charlie Chaplin
, Greta Garbo
, and Lillian Gish
.
Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974.
This play's examination of modern sexual mores may have been provoked by a recent Hollywood scandal involving Greta Garbo
, or more likely (in Riley's view) by the recent affair of King Edward VIII
and...
Textual Features
Pam Gems
Structured along the lines of Brecht
ian epic theatre, but filmic in many of its methods, PG
's drama presents a sequence of episodes from the life of the seventeenth-century Swedish rulerQueen Christina
...
Textual Production
Clemence Dane
CD
collaborated with Salka Viertel
on a screenplay of Tolstoy
's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo
.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 137
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.