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Photographs from The Last Command, The Drag Net, Shanghai Express (Dietrich close-up), Der Blaue Engel (production shot), The Scarlet Empress (Dietrich–von Sternberg), The Devil Is a Woman, The King Steps Out, The Shanghai Gesture (Munson-Tierney and set design), Jet Pilot, and The Saga of Anatahan are courtesy of the Joel Finler Collection. Portraits of David Stratton and Josef von Sternberg are courtesy of Robert McFarlane. All other photographs are from the author’s collection.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baxter, John, 1939–

Von Sternberg / John Baxter.

p. cm. — (Screen classics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN 978-0-8131-2601-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)

1. Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894–1969. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Biography. I. Title.

PN1998.3.V66.B39 2010

791.4302′33092—dc22

[B]

2010023313

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