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Director, Screenwriter Born: April 26, 1900 in Hamburg, Germany Death: January 14, 1987 in Lugano, Switzerland Biography:A box office smash and critical bust during his Hollywood career, director "Douglas Sirk"'s artistic stature began to catch up with his popular success in the decades following his early retirement. Championed by auteurist critics and cineaste directors, Sirk's once-reviled melodramas evolved into an inspired blend of bathos and Brechtian distance, with the over the top histrionics of such films as "Written on the Wind" (1956) and "Imitation of Life" (1959) becoming deluxe tearjerking material as well as a mordant commentary on American values. Born Claus Detlev Sierck to Danish parents, Sirk headed to Germany in his teens to study drama and art history. Sirk forged a career as a successful theater director in Germany, staging works by such writers as "Bertolt Brecht". After the Nazis came to power, Sirk shifted to film in 1934, directing stylishly assured melodramas, musicals, and star vehicles for... Full Biography
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