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Josef von Sternberg

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Noun1.Josef von Sternberg - United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)


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On one of his first, Blonde Venus (1932), the legendary Josef von Sternberg, discoverer-molder-Svengali of Marlene Dietrich, took one look at Grant on his first day of shooting and quietly said, deadpan, “Your hair is parted on the wrong side.
Their sheer CinemaScopic polish aside, the photogtaphs in Crewdson's series "Beneath the Roses," 2004-2007, a large selection of which made up this exhibition, suggest in their extraordinary lighting the work of a present-day Josef von Sternberg.
After her great success in the 1930 Josef Von Sternberg film The Blue Angel, she emigrated to the US and conquered the young American film industry, working with Von Sternberg to refine her image as a femme fatale.
 
 
 
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