An elderly Professor’s life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a night club singer.
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Written by: Heinrich Mann (original novel), Carl Zuckmayer
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich
The Blue Angel
Josef von Sternberg (1894 – 1969) 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.
After working with the award-winning German star Emil Jannings, he was invited from Hollywood to Berlin in 1930 to make Germany's first feature-length full-talkie, Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), with Jannings and an unknown revue-artist, Marlene Dietrich. His encouragement of the latter's performances helped to create the Dietrich legend in the six additional films they made together in Hollywood.