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Regular guests included the Garretts, Schulbergs, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, Johnny Weismüller, Tallulah Bankhead, Miriam Hopins, Christopher Isherwood, Alduous Huxley, Jacques Feyder, Jean Renoir, Marcel Achard and Francoise Rosay. By inviting both well-known and up-and-coming members of the Hollywood film community, Salka Viertel created an alternative networking space as opposed to the strictly hierarchical Hollywood industry. In her memoires she notes that the popularity and success of her gatherings was due to the "informality and the haphazard intermingling of the famous with the 'not famous' and 'not yet famous'." (Viertel, "The Kindness of Strangers", 289-90 in Schreckenberger 2016, 165). After 1933, the diversity of her guests increased further, including Arnold Schönberg, Max Reinhardt, Hanns Eisler, Curt Bois, Leopold Stokwoski, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Erich Maria Remarque, Bert Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, and Fritz Kortner (Schreckenberger 2016, 166).
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