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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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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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