John Baxter

Von Sternberg


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      Screen Classics

      Screen Classics is a series of critical biographies, film histories, and analytical studies focusing on neglected filmmakers and important screen artists and subjects, from the era of silent cinema to the golden age of Hollywood to the international generation of today. Books in the Screen Classics series are intended for scholars and general readers alike. The contributing authors are established figures in their respective fields. This series also serves the purpose of advancing scholarship on film personalities and themes with ties to Kentucky.

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      VON STERNBERG

       John Baxter

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      Photographs from The Last Command, The Drag Net, Shanghai Express (Dietrich close-up), Der Blaue Engel (production shot), The Scarlet Empress (Dietrich–von Sternberg), The Devil Is a Woman, The King Steps Out, The Shanghai Gesture (Munson-Tierney and set design), Jet Pilot, and The Saga of Anatahan are courtesy of the Joel Finler Collection. Portraits of David Stratton and Josef von Sternberg are courtesy of Robert McFarlane. All other photographs are from the author’s collection.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Baxter, John, 1939–

       Von Sternberg / John Baxter.

       p. cm. — (Screen classics)

       Includes bibliographical references and index.

       Includes filmography.

       ISBN 978-0-8131-2601-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)

       1. Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894–1969. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Biography. I. Title.

       PN1998.3.V66.B39 2010

       791.4302′33092—dc22

       [B]

      2010023313

      This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials.

      Manufactured in the United States of America.

       For Curtis Harrington, true believer

      Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.

      —T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

      Contents

       The Man Who Asked for Onions

       Vienna

       Love and Other Distractions

       An Artist’s Life

       The World, the Flesh, and William A. Brady

       In Uniform

       Over There

       Out There

       Photographing a Thought

       A Genuine Genius

       Three Sheets to the Wind

       The Ascent of Paramount

       The City of Dreadful Night

       A Great Man

       Came the Dawn

       The Lady with the Legs

       Falling in Love Again

       The Woman All Women Want to See

       Spies

       Talk Like a Train

       Come Early, Stay Late

       Russian Dolls

       Moscow Rules

       The End of the Affair

       Cardboard Continental