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| | Josef von Sternberg |
 | | It was to direct such a vehicle for the star Emil Jannings, who had died already from mortification in The Last Command (and Murnau's Letzte Mann), that von Sternberg went to Berlin and made one of the landmarks of film history, Der blaue Engel, and discovered Marlene Dietrich. |
 | | Der blaue Engel, Thunderbolt, American Tragedy, Crime and Punishment, The Devil Is a Woman, The Shanghai Gestures, Antahan... |
 | | What distinguishes these heroines from Emil Jannings' professor in Der blaue Engel (whose similar capitulation to a least-appropriate object of amour-fou is equally suicidal) is the forthrightness, the lack of hesitation in the women. |
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