The Case of Lena Smith
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The Case of Lena Smith is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Esther Ralston and James Hall, and released by Paramount Pictures.
The Case of Lena Smith 1929. Josef von Sternberg, director. Esther Ralston
Lena (Esther Ralston) and cadet officer Franz (James Hall) at the Prater.
Prater sequence: "Half Lady" exhibit
Josef von Sternberg
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Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studio
The Case of Lena Smith
…The Case of Lena Smith is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Esther Ralston and James Hall, and released by Paramount Pictures. The Case of Lena Smith is ranked by film critics as among the “lost…
Josef von Sternberg on the set of Dishonored (1931)
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.