Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-born filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios. He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production, The Blue Angel (1930).
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg and Mary Pickford at the Pickfair Estate, Beverly Hills, California, in 1925. Dubbed "Mary Pickford's New Director", photos of Sternberg and Pickford were widely circulated in the press, "but the entente was short-lived."
The Exquisite Sinner (1926 film). M-G-M studios set. Director von Sternberg seated (right).
A measure of The Blue Angel's European marketing and its "instant international success": Danish movie poster.
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.
Marlene Dietrich as Lola: "She straddles a chair...imperiously, magisterially, fully the measurer of men in the audience..."
James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again (1939)
Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serve food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen (17 November 1942).
Dietrich with airmen of the 401st Bomb Group (29 September 1944)
