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He was born in Vienna, Austria but spent much of his childhood in New York City where his father, a former soldier in the army of Austria-Hungary, tried to make a new life for himself. Sternberg grew up in poverty and dropped out of high school. As a youth he got a job cleaning and repairing movie prints and soon found himself apprenticing in the movie industry. He made his directorial debut in 1925 with The Salvation Hunters and had commercial success later in the decade with a series of early gangster films.
His new found prosperity made it possible for him to commission an impressive mini- mansion from the famous architect Richard Neutra. Even after its demolition Von Sternberg house remained an example of modernismThis article focuses on the cultural movement labeled 'modernism' or 'the modern movement'. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. Just as the ancients drew the in in ArchitectureArchitecture is the art and science of designing buildings. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of fu.
In 1930, von Sternberg went to Germany and directed the widely acclaimed film Der Blau Engel (The Blue AngelBlue Angel might be used to refer to several different things: three movies based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat ( 1905), about the downfall of a teacher, obsessed with love: The Blue Angel (1930 movie), (in English) starring Marlene Dietrich as) in English and German language versions. Sternberg cast the unknown Marlene DietrichMarie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich ( December 27, 1901 May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer. Born in Schoneberg, Berlin, Dietrich played the violin before joining an acting school in 1921, making her film debut the following year. After playing in as Lola Lola and made her an international star.