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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
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Birth: | 26th April, 1897 |
Death: | 14th January, 1987 |
Nationality: | German |
Profession: | Film Director |
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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