The costume design for the star of the Von Sternberg classic film starring Emil Jannings (1884-1950) who won the first Best Actor Academy Award for this role. It bears the signature of designer Emile Santiago (1899-1995) (AA Winner for THE ROBE) who specialized in male period wardrobe and a stamp from Western Costume Company. Per Rottentomatoes:
Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived penniless in the US after the 1917 Revolution and who supported himself by playing movie bit parts and managing a Russian restaurant. Emil Jannings stars as the Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, who in the last days of the Romanoff regime must decide the fate of two revolutionist actors, Leo Andreyev (William Powell) and the gorgeous Natacha (Evelyn Brent). Andreyev is carted off to prison, while Natacha becomes the Duke's mistress. She fully intends to kill him, but when the chancearrives...
