Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1900 - January 14, 1987) was a film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s. Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany to Danish parents. He was raised in Denmark, but later moved to Germany as a teenager. He spread his education over three universities. He started his career in 1922 in the theatre of the Weimar Republic, including the direction of an early production of "The Threepenny Opera". Wikipedia
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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. entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=135093
Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years. weeklywire.com/ww/05-15-00/austin_screens_feature.html
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