In fact, Hubbard’s days as a sci-fi author were mostly behind him by then, and Scientology was already a worldwide phenomenon. And in the otherwise excellent 2007 biography Leni, author Steven Bach describes the collaboration briefly but gets Hubbard wrong, saying that his days as a science-fiction writer and Scientology leader had not yet happened when he met Riefenstahl in 1960. In 2007, The New Yorker devoted a single sentence to it as an example of how Americans, after memories of World War II had begun to recede, increasingly wanted to work with Riefenstahl. There’s a brief mention of it in Riefenstahl’s 1987 memoir, and somewhat less in the English-language translation of it. Since then there has been very little written about this unusual meeting of the minds. Ron Hubbard briefly collaborated on a screenplay that was to be a remake of her popular 1932 film directing debut, Das blaue Licht (‘The Blue Light’). ![]() It’s an odd footnote in the lives of two notorious 20th-century figures. ![]() ![]() Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
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