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The Scarlet Letters
Big-budget studio films were heavily promoted, and The Scarlet Empresswas no exception. In addition to press coverage and ads, there were publicity stunts – worldwide. Paramount's pitch to showmen.In...
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El Morocco Memories
With Clifton Webb, c 1937.The zebra print on the banquettes was really dark blue, but that pattern (which reproduced so well in newsprint photos) served as background for the rich, the famous and the...
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Making Fashion: Two New Exhibitions (With Books!)
Two current exhibitions celebrate the work of those who helped shape Dietrich's image:Photographer Horst P. Horst photographed Dietrich on several occasions for Vogue. A major career retrospective,...
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Garbo?
A fantasy coupling, and an April fool's joke, from 1932.New York, 1935.Garbo and Dietrich. They were often compared to one another, but did they they ever meet? Marlene always denied it, which did...
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Dietrich Interviewed: Advice from "An Old German Shoe"
Marlene had recently completed her annual Las Vegas stint and was in the midst of her South American concert tour when this interview, with Lloyd Shearer, was published in an August 1959 edition of...
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Dietrich in London: 50th Anniversary
Half a century ago, this week, Marlene Dietrich arrived in London to prepare for a concert season in that city. She had previously performed there, at the Café de Paris in the fifties, but that was in...
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Ol' Blue Eyes's Little Black Book
Many Sinatra collectors will no doubt be eager to own his 1960s address book, when it comes under the hammer at Heritage Auctions in December (pre-auction internet bidding on the item is already...
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Pretty Souvenirs: A 2014 Marlene Dietrich Auction Overview
Many a Dietrich admirer (and lovers of fine jewellery) would love to be the owner of this tri-colour gold bracelet, with a lapis lazuli clasp, which is being offered by Sotheby's New York as part of...
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Maria Riva at 90
Happy birthday to Maria Riva, who turns 90 on Saturday!Last year, at an OSS dinner in Washington, Riva eloquently recalled her evacuation from Europe on the eve of War in 1939:Here are excerpts from...
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A Suite of Ivory Suits
Spoliansky in Berlin.Bonhams sold an ivory cloqué Balenciaga evening suit from Marlene's wardrobe earlier this month (it fetched £3 250, premium included). According to the auctioneer's description,...
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Happy Birthday: Stars and Cake!
Dietrich was born 113 years ago, on this day in 1901. A Capricorn, she was one of the first stars to use the services of astrologer Carroll Righter, who had come to Hollywood in 1938. ("The stars...
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Marlene Dietrich Movie Tie-In Books
Want to the cut to the chase and see my Marlene Dietrich movie tie-in collection? Click here.During one of my covens with fellow Marlene Dietrich collectors, I discovered a niche of memorabilia that...
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Leatrice Gilbert Fountain (1924 - 2015)
Leatrice Gilbert Fountain, daughter of John Gilbert and Leatrice Joy, died on Tuesday, aged 90.She recalled that “Marlene Dietrich was just incredible to my mother and me. She was so kind, considerate...
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Elsa Mars, 'American Horror Story: Freak Show"
Did anyone happen to catch this season's American Horror Story: Freak Show? It featured Dietrich references and imagery throughout. Jessica Lange turned in a brilliant, Marlene-styed ("She stole my...
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Interview: Marlene Dietrich – bourgeois, geranium-lover
Betty Best interviewed Marlene Dietrich, backstage at London's Golder's Green Hippodrome, in 1965. Special thanks to the Crees Collection for sharing this material.Marlene Dietrich in her dressing...
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A Bilingual Review of Alfred Polgar's Marlene: Bild einer berühmten Zeitgenossin
Polgar, Alfred (2015). Marlene: Bild einer berühmten Zeitgenossin. Wien: Paul Zsolnay Verlag. [160 pages; € 17,90]Blog reader Horst Zumkley has kindly contributed the following reviews in English and...
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The "Russian Soul" in Marlene Dietrich’s Flicks
This post is part of the Russia in Classic Film Blogathon,sponsored by Movies Silently& Flicker Alley. Please explore posts by other participants here. In her memoirs, Marlene Dietrich proclaimed...
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The Testatrix Is Willing
Totally unrelated. Fred MacMurray & Marlene Dietrichon the set of The Lady is Willing.;)Marlene Dietrich's last will and testament as well as its codicil became public record after it was granted...
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Kylie Minogue as Marlene.
From the spring issue of Sorbet magazine. Two of my favorites merge!
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