Douglas Sirk
Videos
Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for the film melodramas he directed in Hollywood during the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his care
Sirk in 1955
Poster for the film Written on the Wind
Sirk and actors on the set of All That Heaven Allows (1955). Left to right: Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Sirk, and Agnes Moorehead
Written on the Wind
Videos
Written on the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. It follows the complicated rel
Douglas Sirk
…was persecuted by the Nazis. In the 1950s, he achieved his greatest commercial success with the films Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and Imitation of Life. While those films were initially panned by critics as sentimental women's pictures, they are…
Dorothy Malone won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
Smithreynolds 1931
Libby Holman 1930 cropped