Born in Hamburg in 1897 and died in 1987, Sirk left Nazi Germany and became known in Hollywood for lush Technicolor melodramas at Universal, which seem like glossy romances on the surface but include sharp social criticism.
Filmography
- La Habanera (1937)
- Hitler's Madman (1943)
- A Scandal in Paris (1946)
- Lured (1947)
- Sleep, My Love (1948)
- Shockproof (1949)
- Thunder on the Hill (1951)
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
- Against All Flags (1952)
- All I Desire (1953)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- The Tarnished Angels (1957)
- Battle Hymn (1957)
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
- Imitation of Life (1959)