4. Ad for Luis Trenker’s The Prodigal Son 48
5. Ad for Curtis Bernhardt’s The Tunnel 53
6. “Hello, America! Here is Europe!” Bernhardt’s The Tunnel 59
7. Paul Hartmann as Mac Allan in The Tunnel 68
8. Zarah Leander in Carl Froelich’s The Heart of a Queen 75
9. A festive scene from Detlef Sierck’s La Habanera 85
10. Zarah Leander in La Habanera
87
11. Zarah Leander in Detlef Sierck’s To New Shores 91
12. Film poster for Carl Froelich’s Heimat 97
13. Frontier fantasies in Luis Trenker’s The Emperor of California 101
14. Lederstrumpf, by Karl Hubbuch
106
15. Kino, by Paul Gangolf
107
16. Caricature of Hans Albers in Herbert Selpin’s Sergeant Berry 110
17. Luis Trenker in The Emperor of California 116
18. Ad for Herbert Selpin’s Water for Canitoga 126
19. Hans Albers in Water for Canitoga
130
20. Allegory of fascism: Robert Siodmak’s Cobra Woman 160
21. Jazz, desire, and representation in Robert Siodmak’s Phantom Lady
171
22. Franchot Tone in Phantom Lady
178
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23. Dorothy McGuire in Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase 191
24. Speak or die: The Spiral Staircase
193
25. Poster for the German-language release of The Spiral Staircase 195
26. Charles Boyer and Wesley Addy in Douglas Sirk’s The First Legion
211
27. Marlene Dietrich in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious 221
28. Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die 232
29. Eleanor Parker in Curtis Bernhardt’s Interrupted Melody 238
30. Promotional material for Interrupted Melody 254
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