Author Topic: Art and cars #26 - Solved! Erich von Stroheim chauffeurs a 1929 Isotta-Fraschini (Read 2080 times)

Ray B. · « **on:** May 23, 2009, 08:31:41 AM »

Who is he, and what car can he be associated with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.
Rule is: you identify the artist, you have one week to find the car. After that, the hunt is opened and anyone can rob you of your point.

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streamliner · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2009, 11:13:27 PM »

How about Buster Keaton and a railway car (The General, 1927)? If not the railway car, then how about his 1930 Packard?

Ray B. · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2009, 04:37:39 AM »

Nope, I already did Keaton.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7242.0
But you're on to something.

streamliner · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:50:55 PM »

He also has a resemblance to Pablo Picasso. Is it possible? Or is this further away?

Ray B. · « **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2009, 02:03:15 PM »

Well, more Picasso than Keaton maybe, but resemblance doesn't matter here (unless you stumble upon the right guy).
Then, as you say, you're getting colder.

Still, you may have been fooled by the hat, because I don't see ANY physical resemblance between him and Keaton.

streamliner · « **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2009, 06:33:39 PM »

No resemblance?

It's not just the porkpie hat that threw me, it was the overall package there.

I'll keep hunting... Something to do with railroading?

Ray B. · « **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2009, 07:08:21 PM »

Yes, more than the hat. But Keaton has sadder eyes, a squarer chin... As my "artists" are usually very well-known, I try to fool you a bit by choosing non-typical photos.
You forgot that Keaton was supposed to be "the man who never smiles". And I don't remember seeing him with a cigar.

The something that ties them is not railroading.

Ray B. · « **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2009, 07:16:35 PM »

Here is a younger Keaton:

streamliner · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:34:33 AM »

Silent movie star?

Ray B. · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2009, 04:10:00 AM »

"Movie star", yes. But, as an actor, not really in the silent era, although he did act in those times too.
His career as an actor extended well into the talkies.

Ray B. · « **Reply #10 on:** June 07, 2009, 04:39:52 AM »

streamliner · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2009, 08:22:27 AM »

American?

Ray B. · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2009, 08:49:38 AM »

Although most of his career was in the USA, he wasn't born an American. I can't say if he ever became a US citizen.

streamliner · « **Reply #13 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:10:32 AM »

Did his accent play a major part in his movie roles?

jimjarron · « **Reply #14 on:** June 09, 2009, 02:35:33 AM »

Is he Ole Olsen of Olsen & Johnson by any chance? In 1950 Olsen was involved in a serious traffic accident that left him partially crippled. Don't know what make of car it was though. The only car related information I can find on Olsen is that his daughter, Moya Olsen, in 1942, married William P. Lear, Senior, who was associated in some way with the development of car radios.

Ray B. · « **Reply #15 on:** June 09, 2009, 04:39:18 AM »

It's not Ole Olsen, no.

@ streamliner: I don't have any of his films on DVD to listen to him again. I don't remember how strong an accent he had kept, but the sure thing is that his origins played the major part in his movie roles, yes.

streamliner · « **Reply #16 on:** June 09, 2009, 08:36:32 AM »

Did his nationality get him roles in WWII films?

Ray B. · « **Reply #17 on:** June 09, 2009, 09:12:56 AM »

Yes, definitely, and you'd better make a guess before someone else steals the point.

streamliner · « **Reply #18 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:42:30 PM »

Is it Curd Jurgens, perhaps?

max · « **Reply #19 on:** June 09, 2009, 02:11:55 PM »

Those ears, those tailfins. I guess it's Maurice Chevalier and, if so, try the Facel Vega Excellence from Count your blessings

Ray B. · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2009, 11:30:46 AM »

Sorry guys, I had missed your posts.
Since I couldn't recognize Patrick McGoohan, I gave up teasing my fellows autopuzzlers... but he sure is neither Maurice Chevalier (don't get fooled by the hat), neither Curd Jurgens (who never was in a silent film).

streamliner · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2009, 12:41:26 PM »

Was he in "The Longest Day"?

Ray B. · « **Reply #22 on:** June 13, 2009, 04:33:16 PM »

Nope (contrarily to Curd Jürgens) and for a very good reason: he was dead when they shot this film.

streamliner · « **Reply #23 on:** June 13, 2009, 07:35:58 PM »

Could it be, possibly, maybe Max Willenz?

Ray B. · « **Reply #24 on:** June 14, 2009, 04:49:38 AM »

No. Much more famous in his time than Max Willenz (who is uncredited in most of the pictures where he appears, I read. I confess I had never heard of this one). And remember he was an actor, but not only that.
I usually choose famous people. Of course if it's a painter or a musician, you may have to know a bit about painting or music to know him.

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Author Topic: Art and cars #26 - Solved! Erich von Stroheim chauffeurs a 1929 Isotta-Fraschini (Read 2080 times)