While in the United States, Buñuel associated with other celebrity expatriates including Sergei Eisenstein, Josef Von Sternberg, Jacques Feyder, Charles Chaplin and Bertolt Brecht.

The novelist / philosopher Ayn Rand was the second owner of the Von Sternberg House in the San Fernando Valley ( now destroyed ).

* Von Sternberg House, 1935, San Fernando Valley

In 1932 the film director Josef von Sternberg commissioned architect Richard Neutra to design a residence in the avant-garde American modernism architectural style, known as the Von Sternberg house.

* Von Sternberg House by Richard Neutra

Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish family in Vienna.

Von Sternberg dropped out of Jamaica High School and worked as an errand boy in a lace warehouse.

Von Sternberg also cast the then little known Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola, the female lead, and made her an international star overnight.

In 1932, von Sternberg commissioned architect Richard Neutra to design the ' Von Sternberg House ', an avant-garde American modernist residence.

Von Sternberg is one of the directors to whom has been attributed the origin of the expression " MOS ", a phrase used when a scene is to be filmed without sound.

It was there that the aspiring cineaste founded the Austin Film Society and grew to appreciate such auteurs as Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

After leaving school she became a secretary and " script girl " for director Josef Von Sternberg.

After clashing with Von Sternberg, White left his employment to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera.

Von Sternberg House was a single bedroom ( servant bedrooms excluded ) mini-mansion designed by the architect Richard Neutra.

Von Sternberg house was one of the most impressive of the incarnations of this philosophy, along with Lovell House.

The design of the Von Sternberg House contrasts with the typical homes built at the beginning of the 21st century.

The Von Sternberg House had a very small number of rooms and a relatively small surface area which played up its unique design features.

He would later regale his friends with the story ( among others ) of Von Sternberg asking that none of the bathroom doors have locks, in order to prevent his party guests from locking themselves up in there and threatening to commit suicide.

Von Sternberg called the story " the downfall of an enamored man ", and calls Rath "... a figure of self-satisfied dignity brought low.

Von Sternberg and his wife divorced shortly after.

Outside of fiction, Lars von Trier, Diane von Fürstenberg, Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Dita Von Teese ( note non-standard capitalization ) and Denise van Outen added the von / van to their name by their own choice.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

This event became known as Von Bredow's Death Ride after the brigade commander Adalbert von Bredow ; it would be used in the following decades to argue that massed cavalry charges still had a place on the modern battlefield.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

" Doctor Doom, MODOK, and Abomination fall back to Castle Doom only to find that Doctor Doom's mother Cynthia " Coco " Von Doom had converted it into a spa with Chthon's help.

Von Soemmerring did not change his opinion that these forms were bats and this " bat model " for interpreting pterosaurs would remain influential long after a consensus had been reached around 1860 that they were reptiles.

" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

It had been known for many years, from the predictions of Kelvin and Von Helmholtz, and confirmed by the experiments of Fedderssen, that in many cases an electric discharge is of an oscillatory character.

Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.

Moltke had indeed massed three armies in the area — the Prussian First Army with 50, 000 men, commanded by General Karl Von Steinmetz opposite Saarlouis, the Prussian Second Army with 134, 000 men commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl opposite the line Forbach – Spicheren, and the Prussian Third Army with 120, 000 men commanded by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, poised to cross the border at Wissembourg.

The effect of the British operation here was felt in Flanders, General Von Kuhl wrote later that it was a costly defeat and " wrecked " the plan for relieving divisions which had been " fought-out " in Flanders.

Leadership ( Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt had been recalled by Adolf Hitler, to reassure the crumbling western front ), initiative and a good staff system were beginning to create a defence out of chaos.

Von Kahr replied that he could not be expected to collaborate, especially as he had been taken out of the auditorium under heavy guard.

Von Rundstedt advised him the infantry should attack the British forces at Arras, where the British had proved capable of significant action, while Kleist's armour held the line west and south of Dunkirk in order to pounce on the Allied forces retreating before Army Group B.

He attacks the piano with an axe, destroying it, but regrets his actions when Mrs. Von Schwartzenhoffen returns home and tearfully tells her husband it had been a surprise birthday present.

Von Braun had romantic dreams about conquering outer space with rockets, and did not initially see the military value in missile technology.

Among these was Baron Von Steuben, a Prussian general who had instructed the George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1776-77.

Von Braun had long had a great interest in rocketry for space science and exploration.

Von Braun knew well the capabilities of these individuals and had great confidence in them.

They offered the vacant drummer position to their friend Eerie Von, who had served as their occasional roadie and photographer, but he had already committed to drumming for Rosemary's Babies.

By this time Freiberg had become a member of Jefferson Starship -- he had worked with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick to form a trio on the album Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun, leading to full-time membership in the dying days of Jefferson Airplane as the band evolved into Jefferson Starship.

Von Bülow's IV Corps, which had not been engaged at Ligny, moved south of Wavre and set up a strong position on which the other elements of the Prussian army could reassemble.