Douglas Sirk Overview:

Director, Douglas Sirk, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on Apr 26, 1897 in Hamburg, Germany. Sirk died at the age of 89 on Jan 14, 1987 in Lugano, Switzerland and was laid to rest in Cemetery of Castagnola in Lugano, Switzerland.

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The beauty of Dark Suburbia and Douglas Sirk

By Carol Martinheira on Sep 11, 2021 From The Old Hollywood Garden

The beauty of Dark Suburbia and Douglas Sirk On September 11, 2021 By CarolIn Uncategorized A few weeks ago, I posted an article on Medium about my 30 favorite Cold Case episodes of all time and, coming in at number 30 was The Brush Man (Season 6, episode 14), in w... Read full article


Lured (1947, Douglas Sirk)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 9, 2019 From The Stop Button

If Lured had gone just a little bit differently, it could?ve kicked off a franchise for Lucille Ball and George Sanders. He?s the high society snob, she?s the New York girl in London, they solve mysteries. But Lured isn?t their detective story; it?s Charles Coburn?s detective story, they?re just the... Read full article


Lured (1947, Douglas Sirk)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 9, 2019 From The Stop Button

If Lured had gone just a little bit differently, it could?ve kicked off a franchise for Lucille Ball and George Sanders. He?s the high society snob, she?s the New York girl in London, they solve mysteries. But Lured isn?t their detective story; it?s Charles Coburn?s detective story, they?re just the... Read full article


Lured (1947, Douglas Sirk)

on Apr 9, 2019 From The Stop Button

If Lured had gone just a little bit differently, it could?ve kicked off a franchise for Lucille Ball and George Sanders. He?s the high society snob, she?s the New York girl in London, they solve mysteries. But Lured isn?t their detective story; it?s Charles Coburn?s detective story, they?re just the... Read full article


Lured (1947, Douglas Sirk)

on Apr 9, 2019 From The Stop Button

If Lured had gone just a little bit differently, it could?ve kicked off a franchise for Lucille Ball and George Sanders. He?s the high society snob, she?s the New York girl in London, they solve mysteries. But Lured isn?t their detective story; it?s Charles Coburn?s detective story, they?re just the... Read full article


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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1005-1017. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Directed 5 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore. Malone won an Oscar for Written on the Wind (1956).

In Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), inside of the movie-homage diner "Jack Rabbit Slim's" one of the characters orders a "Douglas Sirk Steak" from the menu.

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