Josef von Sternberg: An Illustrated Introduction

'I've never met a more disagreeable layabout in all my life,' claimed Charlie Chaplin of a man detested by actors, writers, and producers almost as much as he detested them. Yet Marlene Dietrich called him 'the Master – the Giver – Reason for my existence' and few films remain so indelibly in the mind as The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus and Shanghai Express. John Baxter, film historian and author of a new biography, explores von Sternberg's many contradictions in this illustrated season introduction.

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