---
name: "Salka Viertel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/salka-viertel"
fi1m_id: "salka-viertel"
imdb_id: "nm0826554"
tmdb_id: 239105
wikidata_id: "Q84576"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "15 June 1889"
died: "20 October 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:06:38.193927+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Salka Viertel

## Identity

Salka Viertel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/salka-viertel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** salka-viertel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0826554
- **TMDB ID:** 239105
- **Wikidata ID:** Q84576
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84576, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826554/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239105

Writer. Born 15 June 1889 in Sambir. Died 20 October 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 15 June 1889, Sambir
- **Died:** 20 October 1978
- **Also known as:** Salomea Sara Steuermann
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salka_Viertel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84576, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826554/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239105

## Biography

Salka Viertel, born Salomea Sara Steuermann on 15 June 1889 in Sambor, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), was an Austrian actress and Hollywood screenwriter. She trained and worked as a stage actress in Vienna and Berlin, appearing with companies including Neue Wiener Bühne and Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater. In 1918 she married writer and director Berthold Viertel; the couple had three sons, including writer Peter Viertel. They moved to Hollywood in 1928.

Viertel became a screenwriter under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1933 to 1937. She co-wrote the screenplay and story for *Queen Christina* (1933) and the screenplay for *Anna Karenina* (1935), both starring her friend Greta Garbo, as well as scripts for *The Painted Veil* (1934), *Conquest* (1937) and *Two-Faced Woman* (1941). She also appeared in the German-language version of *Anna Christie* (1930). In her later years she lived in Klosters, Switzerland, where she died on 20 October 1978.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, jwa.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Queen Christina* (1934), Fi1m 64, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/queen-christina.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Thanks
- *Prisoner of the Volga* (1959), Writer
- *Loves of Three Queens* (1954), Writer
- *Deep Valley* (1947), Screenplay
- *Two-Faced Woman* (1941), Screenplay
- *Conquest* (1937), Writer
- *Anna Karenina* (1935), Screenplay
- *The Painted Veil* (1934), Screenplay
- *Queen Christina* (1934), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/queen-christina.md)
- *The Holy Flames* (1931), as Mrs. Taylor
- *The Costume Falls* (1931), Actor
- *Anna Christie* (1930), as Marthy
- *Seven Faces* (1929), as Catherine of Russia

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