[nice tight clean book, slight wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket lightly edgeworn, with a faint horizontal crease near bottom of front panel and slight color-shifting to the spine (I've never seen a copy of this book that didn't exhibit this to some degree, this copy less so than usual)]. (B&W photographs) "The actor who created [sic] the role of Resistance leader Victor Lazlo in movie history's best-known film, Casablanca, tells the no less dramatic and colorful story of his own life beginning with his charmed childhood among the aristocrats of pre-World War I Vienna, where amiability and elegance were the order of the day for the von Hernried family." Paul went on to a career in the theatre and later Hollywood stardom, although that was "all but destroyed by the blacklist, upon which he was wrongly placed." During the latter part of his life he found "a second career as a director/producer for movies and television."

Actors Vienna Blacklisting Film Directors