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Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession , All That Heaven Allows , The Tarnished Angels , Written on the Wind , and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). Because of the special stamp he put on his melodramas, Sirk's best works transcend the constraints of their genre. In them, he both exemplified and ...

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Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director 1991, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813516455

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Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director 1991, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813516448

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