biography
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Sternberg, Josef von
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originally Jonas Stern or Sternberg
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pronunciation:
[shternberg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1969)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Vienna, Austria. In New York at age 17, he became a film editor for World Film, and in 1917 he joined the Army Signal Corps and made training films. His first feature film was The Salvation Hunters (1925), and he went on to become the master of the American screen with his pictorial compositions and light and shadow effects. Among later films were The Blue Angel (1930), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and Macao (1952). |
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