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    Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the...
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    All That Heaven Allows (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a novel by...
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  • Magnificent Obsession (1954 film) (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. It is a remake of the 1935 film by...
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    Imitation of Life (1959 film) (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and dealt...
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  • pandemic safety precautions. Pearl drew inspiration from the works of Douglas Sirk, Technicolor films like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Mary Poppins (1964)...
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    female lead in Written on the Wind (1956), which is considered one of Douglas Sirk's seminal films. She later acted in Harper (1966), Murder on the Orient...
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  • perfect life begin to fall apart. Haynes pays homage to the films of Douglas Sirk (especially 1955's All That Heaven Allows, 1956's Written on the Wind...
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  • film genre and the "woman's film" category, particularly the work of Douglas Sirk, which directly influenced this film. The film is also a satire of suburban...
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    The Tarnished Angels (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson,...
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    International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. In 1999, he was laureate of the Douglas Sirk Preis at Filmfest Hamburg, Germany. In 1984, he won the Caméra d'Or at...
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    Written on the Wind (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone...
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    within film culture and film industry. It receives its name from director Douglas Sirk, born in Hamburg as Detlef Sierck. 1995: Clint Eastwood 1996: Stephen...
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    while with the Army, when he was spotted by American film director Douglas Sirk. Sirk offered him in a small role in a film, A Time to Love and a Time to...
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    with Far from Heaven (2002), a 1950s-set drama inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk about a Connecticut housewife Cathy Whittaker (Julianne Moore) who discovers...
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    Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Douglas Sirk. For the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll, Guadagnino listed, The Blue...
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    was the lead in A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), directed by Douglas Sirk from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. His casting drew comparisons...
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  • Look up sirk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sirk may refer to: Sirk, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a village in Iran Sirk, Isfahan, a village in Kuhpayeh...
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  • based on novel The Robe Magnificent Obsession (1954), film directed by Douglas Sirk, based on novel Magnificent Obsession Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1955–1957)...
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  • 2023-01-26. O'Connor, Rory (2022-08-31). "Todd Haynes on the Genius of Douglas Sirk and Collaborating with Kelly Reichardt". Retrieved 2023-03-15. "Hernan...
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    edited eight books, including a long interview with the U.S. film-maker Douglas Sirk. In addition, he and his wife, Jung Chang, with whom he lives in Notting...
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    biographical film Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as well as the talent agent in the Douglas Sirk classic Imitation of Life (1959). On Broadway, he originated the role...
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  • to be "cinema made for and by gay men." In addition to the films of Douglas Sirk (the greatest exponent of melodrama), several works by Minnelli, Nicholas...
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  • Retrieved 2024-08-16. Lee Daniels On The Deliverance, Shifting Culture, Douglas Sirk, and that Glenn Close Performance "In Lee Daniels' The Deliverance, Nothing...
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  • screwball comedies of the late 1930s and the 1950s work of directors such as Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, and Alfred Hitchcock, 8 Women blends farce, melodrama...
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    Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952), the first of his films directed by Douglas Sirk. He also appeared as a gambler in Bend of the River (1952). He supported...
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    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1947 Lured Inspector Harley Temple Douglas Sirk The Paradine Case Sir Simon Flaquer Alfred Hitchcock 1948 B.F.'s Daughter...
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    released in 1934. The expensive, glossy Ross Hunter production, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lana Turner, was a box-office hit.[citation needed] In addition...
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    for distribution. Silver cites the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, Nicholas Ray and Pier Paolo Pasolini as major influences. In June 2022...
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    Stack was then given a role in Written on the Wind (1956), directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Albert Zugsmith. Stack played another pilot, the son...
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  • Seidl will no longer receive Douglas Sirk award from Filmfest Hamburg". Screen Daily. Retrieved 14 September 2022. "Douglas Sirk Award 2022" (Press release)...
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