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"˜'Dietrich is something that never existed before and may never exist again. That’s a woman.” -Maurice Chevalier
”A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately." "¨"“ Josef von Sternberg – Fun in a Chinese Laundry, Mercury House, San Francisco, 1988)
For a century the divine Marlene Dietrich in her enigmatic work in cinema has been a radiant star of the silver screen. A torch singer, Sphynx-like, a seductress in a world where her mystique remains intangible and beyond adequate description. A torch songstress – she was the quintessential cabaret entertainer of Weimar-era Germany. Dietrich began her cabaret performances in 1954, which lasted two decades.
Marlene Dietrich has a world-weary appeal, the goddess of reflexive poise, self-possessiveness, an inscrutable aura of boundless insight, and a sort of subdued confidence. Next to Bette Davis, Dietrich has stirred a fascination in me – maybe it’s her indescribable physicality,
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Guide for the Film Fanatic: A Critical Checklist of Over 1,500 Movies 0671654373
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First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster Limited 1987 © 1 986, l 987 Donny Peary
This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. Simon & Schuster Limited, West Garden 'Place, Kendal Street, London W2 2AQ
Simon & Schuster Australia Ply Limited PO Box l 51, 2 Grosvenor Place, Brookvale, NSW 21 00 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Peary, Danny Guide for the film fonactic. I • Moving-oictures - Reviews I. Title 791.43'75 PNl 995 ISBN 0-671-65437-3 Printed in the United States of America ond bound in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
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