Josef von Sternberg aka
Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an
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. He is one of the earliest examples of '
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' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including
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, writer, and editor. Sternberg's style has had a vast influence on later directors, particularly during the
film noirFilm noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...
movement. His mastery of mise-en-scene, lighting and soft lens is unrivaled, and his collaboration with sultry actress
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is internationally celebrated.
Josef von Sternberg was born
Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish family in
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but spent most of his childhood in
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and Lynbrook, New Jersey.
Josef von Sternberg aka
Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
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AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
. He is one of the earliest examples of '
auteurThe term auteur is used to describe film directors who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they repeatedly return to the same subject matter, habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or ...
' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including
cinematographerCinematography , is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
, writer, and editor. Sternberg's style has had a vast influence on later directors, particularly during the
film noirFilm noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...
movement. His mastery of mise-en-scene, lighting and soft lens is unrivaled, and his collaboration with sultry actress
Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich was a German-born American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
is internationally celebrated.
Life and Work
Josef von Sternberg was born
Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish family in
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but spent most of his childhood in
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and Lynbrook, New Jersey. His father,
Moses (Morris) Sternberg, a former soldier in the army of
Austria-HungaryAustria–Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the k.u.k. Monarchy, or Dual State, was a monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe...
, twice tried to make a home for the family in the US before finding employment as a lace worker.
Sternberg dropped out of the Jamaica High School and worked as an errand boy in a lace warehouse. He later obtained a job cleaning and repairing movie prints, and soon found himself working for
William A. BradyWilliam Aloysius Brady was an American theatre actor, producer, and sports promoter.-Biography:Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought William to New York City, where his father worked as a writer while William was forced to sell newspapers...
at the World Film studios at Fort Lee, NJ. He made his directorial debut in 1925 with
The Salvation HuntersThe Salvation Hunters is a 1925 silent film starring George K. Arthur and Georgia Hale. This was the first film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and it is sometimes described as the first American independent film, as it was shot on a small budget by a completely unknown director...
(called by some the first American independent film).
Charlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and...
was impressed by this film, and encouraged
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and
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to acquire the rights. Pickford also asked him to direct a film with her as star, but rejected his first scenario. Chaplin also commissioned him to write and direct "The Sea Gull" (film) starring his former star and lover
Edna PurvianceEdna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with Chaplin.-Early life:...
, but this film was also suppressed. Sternberg had commercial success later in the decade at
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with the remarkable late-period silent films
The Last CommandThe Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró, and directed by Josef von Sternberg.- Synopsis :...
and
The Docks of New YorkThe Docks of New York is a silent film starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, and Mitchell Lewis, which tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love...
, both noted for their influential cinematography. His reputation was also advanced by a series of early gangster films including
UnderworldUnderworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Originally, it was to have been directed by Arthur Rosson, but he was fired by Paramount Pictures. It was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Charles Furthman and Robert N. Lee, with titles by George Marion Jr.. It was produced by B.P....
and
ThunderboltThunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.The movie was adapted by Herman J....
.
Von Sternberg's career suffered a decline after
ThunderboltThunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.The movie was adapted by Herman J....
. and he was glad to accept an invitation to make a film in Germany. In 1929, Sternberg worked in
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and directed the widely acclaimed film
Der blaue EngelThe Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich...
(
The Blue Angel) in both
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and
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versions simultaneously, the first German-language talkie. It was Sternberg's second film with the German actor
Emil JanningsEmil Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but the first person to be presented an Oscar.-Early life:...
as the doomed Professor Rath. (The first was
The Last CommandThe Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró, and directed by Josef von Sternberg.- Synopsis :...
.)
Sternberg also cast the then-unknown
Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich was a German-born American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
as Lola Lola, the female lead, and overnight made her an international star. Sternberg and Dietrich continued to collaborate on
MoroccoMorocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The story was adapted by Jules Furthman from the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny...
,
DishonoredDishonored is a 1931 romantic spy film made by Paramount Pictures. It was co-written , directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg. The costume design was by Travis Banton....
,
Shanghai ExpressShanghai Express is an American 1932 film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the fourth of seven teamings of Sternberg and Dietrich.The...
,
Blonde VenusBlonde Venus is a 1932 drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. The movie was produced and directed for Paramount Pictures by Josef von Sternberg with a screenplay by Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg. The music score was by W...
,
The Scarlet EmpressThe Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great . It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Emanuel Cohen as executive producer, from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, based on the diary of Catherine II, arranged...
, and
The Devil is a Woman.
His new found prosperity made it possible in 1932 for him to commission an impressive mini-
mansionA mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. realtors define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
from the famous architect
Richard NeutraRichard Joseph Neutra is considered one of modernism's most important architects.-Biography:Neutra was born in Vienna on April 8 1892. He studied under Adolf Loos at the Technical University of Vienna, was influenced by Otto Wagner, and worked for a time in Germany in the studio of Erich Mendelsohn...
. Even after its demolition in 1972
Von Sternberg houseVon Sternberg house was a single bedroom mini-mansion designed by the architect Richard Neutra. It was built in 1935 in Northridge, California in the then-rural San Fernando Valley for the movie director Josef von Sternberg...
remained an example of
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in
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.
MacaoMacao is a black-and-white film noir adventure film directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray. Producer Howard Hughes fired director von Sternberg during filming and hired Nicholas Ray to finish it...
(1952) was Sternberg's last Hollywood film.
Anatahan, also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black and white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg.It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg...
(1953), made in Japan, is the story of a group of
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese soldiers who refused to believe that the Second World War had ended, it was directed, photographed, narrated, and written by von Sternberg.
Anatahan, also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black and white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg.It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg...
had limited release, and it was a financial failure. Also, it happened to be Sternberg's final film: even though another Hollywood picture he directed (
Jet PilotJet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War romantic comedy film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman, the movie went through several directorial changes...
) was released in 1957, it had actually been shot seven years earlier, when he was still under contract with producer
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.
Between 1959 and 1963 Von Sternberg taught a course on film aesthetics at the University of California at Los Angeles, based on his own films. His students included
Jim MorrisonJames Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books of poetry ...
and
Ray ManzarekRaymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder, and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st Century since 2001.-Early life and career:Ray Manzarek is of Polish descent, born...
, who went on to form the rock group
The DoorsThe Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They are considered a controversial and influential band, due mostly to Morrison's cryptic lyrics and unpredictable...
. References to Von Sternberg films appear in some songs by the group, and Manzarek describes Von Sternberg as "perhaps the greatest single influence on The Doors."
Sternberg died from a
heart attackMyocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, is the interruption of blood supply to part of the heart, causing some heart cells to die...
in 1969, aged 75, and was interred in the
Westwood Village Memorial Park CemeteryThe Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California....
in
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.Sternberg's autobiography is titled
Fun In A Chinese Laundry, from the title of an early film comedy. Also, over fifty production stills (from the Purviance Family collection), showing von Sternberg work from
The Sea Gull (
A Woman of the SeaA Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, was an unreleased 1926 silent film produced by the Chaplin Film Company....
), has been published.
Silent films
- The Salvation Hunters
The Salvation Hunters is a 1925 silent film starring George K. Arthur and Georgia Hale. This was the first film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and it is sometimes described as the first American independent film, as it was shot on a small budget by a completely unknown director...
(1925)
- Exquisite Sinner
Exquisite Sinner is a 1926 film directed by Josef von Sternberg and Phil Rosen. Prior to working The Masked Bride, von Sternberg had filmed this picture. The studio disliked the picture and brought in Phil Rosen for extensive retakes in 1926...
(1926, lost)
- A Woman of the Sea
A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, was an unreleased 1926 silent film produced by the Chaplin Film Company....
(1926, also known as The Sea Gull or Sea Gulls, lost)
- Underworld
Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Originally, it was to have been directed by Arthur Rosson, but he was fired by Paramount Pictures. It was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Charles Furthman and Robert N. Lee, with titles by George Marion Jr.. It was produced by B.P....
(1927)
- The Last Command
The Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró, and directed by Josef von Sternberg.- Synopsis :...
(1928)
- The Dragnet (1928, lost)
- The Docks of New York
The Docks of New York is a silent film starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, and Mitchell Lewis, which tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love...
(1928)
- The Case of Lena Smith
The Case of Lena Smith is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Esther Ralston and James Hall, and released by Paramount Pictures.- Plot :...
(1929, lost)
Sound films
- Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.The movie was adapted by Herman J....
(1929)
- The Blue Angel
The Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich...
(1930)
- Morocco
Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The story was adapted by Jules Furthman from the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny...
(1930)
- Dishonored
Dishonored is a 1931 romantic spy film made by Paramount Pictures. It was co-written , directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg. The costume design was by Travis Banton....
(1931)
- An American Tragedy (1931)
- Shanghai Express
Shanghai Express is an American 1932 film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the fourth of seven teamings of Sternberg and Dietrich.The...
(1932)
- Blonde Venus
Blonde Venus is a 1932 drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. The movie was produced and directed for Paramount Pictures by Josef von Sternberg with a screenplay by Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg. The music score was by W...
(1932)
- The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great . It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Emanuel Cohen as executive producer, from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, based on the diary of Catherine II, arranged...
(1934)
- The Devil is a Woman (1935)
- Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment is a 1935 film directed by Josef von Sternberg for Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted by Joseph Anthony and S.K. Lauren from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title...
(1935)
- The King Steps Out (1936)
- Sergeant Madden
Sergeant Madden is a 1939 film noir forerunner directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast in this dark police movie, noted for its imaginative and evocative cinematography, includes Laraine Day, Alan Curtis, and Marc Lawrence.-Cast:*Wallace Beery as Sergeant...
(1939)
- The Shanghai Gesture
The Shanghai Gesture is a United Artists film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson....
(1941)
- The Town
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg.The Town presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana...
(1943, short film)
- Macao
Macao is a black-and-white film noir adventure film directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray. Producer Howard Hughes fired director von Sternberg during filming and hired Nicholas Ray to finish it...
(1952)
- Anatahan
, also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black and white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg.It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg...
(1952–8, also known as The Saga of Anatahan)
Other projects
- The Masked Bride
The Masked Bride is a 1925 silent era drama film, directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman and Basil Rathbone. Originally helmed by Josef von Sternberg, the director followed the footsteps of Erich von Stroheim in walking out of a Mae Murray movie, this time after two...
(1925, directed with Christy CabanneChristy Cabanne , born William Christy Cabanne, was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor. Christy Cabanne was, along with Sam Newfield and William Beaudine, one of the most prolific directors in the history of American film.-Biography:Cabanne graduated from the U.S...
, uncredited)
- It
It is a 1927 Cinderella themed silent romantic comedy which tells the story of a shop girl who sets her sights on the handsome and wealthy owner of the department store where she works...
(1927, directed with Clarence G. BadgerClarence G. Badger was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His most noteworthy films include It, starring Clara Bow, more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two features starring Raymond Griffith, Paths to Paradise and Hands...
, uncredited)
- Children of Divorse (1927, directed with Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, scriptwriter and producer...
, uncredited)
- Street of Sin (1928, directed with Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish Jewish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
, uncredited)
- I, Claudius
I, Claudius was the proposed 1937 film of the book I, Claudius. It was to have been produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Charles Laughton , Emlyn Williams , Flora Robson , and Merle Oberon , but it was dogged by ill-luck, culminating in a car accident involving...
(1937, unfinished)
- The Great Waltz
The Great Waltz is a stage and screen musical which uses themes by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II. It debuted on Broadway at the Center Theatre on September 22, 1934 and ran for 289 performances. The original stage production featured lyrics by Desmond Carter, while the 1938 film had a...
(1938, directed with Julien DuvivierJulien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930 - 1960. He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination...
, uncredited)
- I Take This Woman
I Take This Woman is a 1940 drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.-Cast:*Spencer Tracy as Dr. Karl Decker*Hedy Lamarr as Georgi Gragore Decker*Verree Teasdale as Madame "Cesca" Marcesca*Kent Taylor as Phil Mayberry...
(1940, directed with W.S. Van Dyke, uncredited)
- Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun is a Technicolor 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love...
(1946, directed with King VidorKing Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed American film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900...
, uncredited)
- Jet Pilot
Jet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War romantic comedy film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman, the movie went through several directorial changes...
(1957; Sternberg only directed a small portion of this film, in 1950, while still under contract to Howard HughesHoward Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big budget and often controversial films like Hell's Angels,...
)
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