# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salka-viertel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:47:02.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salka-viertel"
name: "Salka Viertel"
slug: "salka-viertel"
description: "Salka Viertel was an Austrian actress and Hollywood screenwriter. While under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937, Viertel co-wrote the scripts for many movies, particularly those starring her close friend Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina (1933) and Anna Karenina (1935). She also played opposite Garbo in MGM's German-language version of Anna Christie (1930). Viertel was known as the \"social connector\" within the large European émigré community of artists who settled on the West Side of Los Angeles in the 1930s and '40s."
tagline: "American actress and screenwriter (1899–1978)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Salka_Viertel.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889-06-15"
deathDate: "1978-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.72826266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826554/"
    handle:    "nm0826554"
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "سالكا ڤيرتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%BA%CE%B1_%CE%A6%CE%AF%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BB"
    title: "Σάλκα Φίρτελ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "زالکا فیرتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9C"
    title: "זאלקה פירטל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Салька Фіртель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "سلکا ویرٹیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239105"
    title: "Salka Viertel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump