Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
Douglas Sirk Quotes
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
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| Birth: | 26th April, 1897 |
| Death: | 14th January, 1987 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Film Director |
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Douglas Sirk was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s. He left Germany in 1937. He briefly returned to Germany after the War ended, but returned to the U.S. and established his reputation with a series of lush, colorful melodramas for Universal-International Pictures from 1952 to 1959: Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and Imitation of Life.
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