Arthur Lennig

He Designed his military designs and how the medals were arranged

Griffiths didn't have humor, stroheime did have humor

he was an idealist and a cynic at the same time

he started collecting film rather than renting his film out, but it was bootlegged

Universal re issued foolish wives re cut

Stroheim would never allow second takes to be put in his original 

Lenning started collecting all of the 16mm films directed by Stroheimm. In addition, Lenning has many other films that Stroheim acted in. When we go out to interview Lenning, he will allow us to take all of the film reels back to us so we can transfer them onto a digital copy. 

Von Stroheim was very stern when he was directing. When they were in a setting where the actors were eating caviar, he wanted real caviar instead of blackberry jam which was a lot cheaper because it had to be genuine. He wanted his audience to believe it was real so Stroheim said it had to be real. When the setting required a desert, he took the cast and crew out to a hot desert so that it could be was authentic. He could spend all day just wokring with someone to tell them how to walk into a room and sit at a table

When he went back to France near the end of his life, he was still involved with making films, but he was no longer as popular. At one time he was even counter fitting french money to make it look like real french money inside of one of his films. 

You could tell Stroheim that he was 10 years a head of his time and he would tell you, "NO 20, im 20 years a head of my time"