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Josef von sternberg autobiography of a yogi
Fun in a Chinese Laundry
1965 memoir by Josef von Sternberg
Fun in a Chinese Laundry is an autobiography by Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg first published in 1965 by Macmillan Publishers.
The book was reissued in 1988 by Mercury House with a foreword by Gary Cooper.[1]
Von Sternberg provides details from his childhood in Vienna and youth in America, as well every stage of his film career.
The memoir provides numerous character sketches and critiques of film personnel, especially the actors he worked with, among them Marlene Dietrich.[2][3]
The eponymous title of the autobiography is a reference to a 1894 Kinetoscope film by American inventor and film pioneer Thomas Edison[4][5]
Background
Portions of von Sternberg's autobiography were penned as early as 1960 while he was traveling in Europe.[6] Literary critic Ruairi McCann writes:
“Fun in a Chinese Laundry was published 12 years after Ste