15 thoughts on “WCW: Marlene Dietrich

  1. Love Destry. “See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have” is the highlight of the film.

  2. Love Scarlet Empress and Around the World in 80 Days as well as Destry.
    But two of my favourite movies of hers are Witness for the Prosecution and Judgement at Nuremberg with Spencer Tracy.

    1. Agree wholeheartedly, but they’re not technically historical costume flicks—although the case might be made for Judgment at Nuremberg.

      1. I also agree with your comment. But just wanted to let my fellow FrockFlickers know my favourite Marlene Dietrich movies. Besides IMHO these are some of her finest roles.

  3. GOOD TIMING!

    If anyone is, or will be, in the Washington, DC area within the next year, the National Portrait Gallery has a new exhibit on Marlene Dietrich :

    “Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image” showcases the breadth and specificity of the Dietrich look through home videos, articles, photos and film clips. In tweed or top hat, she is powerful and magnetic. And that impression is real, if one that she reserved for the public.

    “Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image” is on at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington until April 15, 2018.

  4. TCM just did a Garbo retrospective. I just watched “Desire” this morning. If you think about it, most of her films are “period” because of the time in which they were made. Either way, she was luminous and sexy. She was funeralised with military honours for the efforts during the war.

  5. I think it’s a toss up between Destry Rides Again, Witness for the Prosecution and Judgement at Nuremberg. I don’t really think that there are any “stinkers” in her movies – she was a good actress and was fairly selective in her acting choices

  6. A quote attributed to Lord Beaverbrook: “Marlene Dietrich standing on a bar in black net stockings, belting out ‘See What the Boys In the Back Room Will Have’, is a greater work of art than the Venus de Milo.”

  7. It’s too bad she and Bowie never actually met–think of the conversation they could have had, and the stories they could have shared! I suspect they would have hit it off very well indeed…

      1. I wish I could’ve met Madeleine Kahn! Hey – has there been a Madeleine Kahn WCW yet?

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