Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Josef von Sternberg
Born: May 29, 1894
Died: December 22, 1969 (aged 75)
Bio: Josef von Sternberg, born Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-American film director. His family emigrated permanently to the United States when he was fourteen, and he grew up in New York City.
Known for:
- The Blue Angel (1930)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- The Scarlet Empress (1934)
- The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
- The Last Command (1928)