Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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)