About Henry Koster
Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director. He was the husband of actress Peggy Moran. == Early life == Koster was born Hermann Kosterlitz on May 1, 1905, in Berlin, Germany, to Jewish parents. He was introduced to cinema around the year 1910 when his uncle opened a movie theater in Berlin. Koster's mother played the piano to accompany the films, leaving the young boy to occupy himself by watching the films. After working initially as a short story writer, Kosterlitz was hired by a Berlin movie company as scenarist, becoming an assistant to director Curtis Bernhardt. Bernhardt became sick one day and asked Kosterlitz to take over as director. == Career == In 1932, Koster directed his first film in Berlin, the comedy Thea Roland. Koster was in the midst of directing his second film Das häßliche Mädchen, when Hitler and the Nazi party rose to power. He automatically lost his German citizenship (as did all German Jews) in 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, and managed to complete his second film before being forbidden to make films under the intense, legalized antisemitism, (i.e.
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