Peter Viertel - Hollywood Screenwriter & Novelist

 

Peter Viertel’s 1992 memoir, Dangerous Friends, is one of those books that come along too infrequently, but when they do are vital to our understanding of the world of the arts and literature (Michael Meyer’s Words Through A Window Pane is another) and of the dynamic personalities who inhabited and contributed to that world, most especially, in Viertel’s case, John Huston, Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway.

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Image: Viertel and his wife Deborah Kerr