From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Paul Ludwig Stein 4 February 1892 2 May 1951 was an Austrianborn film director with 67 films to his credit Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926 when he first went to Hollywood and spent the next five years commuting between Germany and the US where he worked with stars such as Jeanette MacDonald Lillian Gish and Constance Bennett In 1931 Stein relocated to England after gaining a contract with British International Pictures where he was assigned a number of bigname prestige productions including some of the popular operetta films of the mid1930s These included Blossom Time and Hearts Desire starring his boyhood friend Richard Tauber who also made cameo appearances in two of his postwar films Waltz Time and Lisbon Story For most his career Steins credits tended to be films primarily aimed at female audiences although later he also directed crime and spy thrillers Stein remained in England for the rest of his life and career becoming a British citizen in 1938
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