Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swaggering gusto by Ronald Colman) is a professional adventurer whose resourcefulness and cunning are limited only by the extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest...
Between times he turns magician, materializes birds out of blue smoke, hurls knives at royalty, effects a hairbreadth escape from the royal guards, marries off his pretty, dark-haired daughter (Joy Ann Page) to the handsome young caliph (James Craig), carries off Miss Dietrich for himself. Meantime Miss Dietrich, her renowned legs and lesser anatomy encased in a heavy layer of gold paint, performs a Hollywood nautch dance as politely voluptuous as the Hays office allows...
...lieutenant presented the compliments of Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben, military commander of Cherbourg, and of Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke, naval commander, and asked that an officer be sent to the tunnel to conduct them out to surrender...
Punctiliously the Ninth's commander, Major General Manton S. Eddy, had extended every military courtesy-including brandy and a talk about the battle-to the city's captured defenders: German Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walther Hennecke. As he accompanied his prisoners to the door, camera bulbs flashed. A grump from the Germans brought a tactful explanation: the U.S. press is free; General Eddy could not and would not forbid the photographers to take pictures. General von Schlieben snarled that he was bored with the whole idea of a free press...
...Marlene Dietrich, currently conquering the otherwise unconquerable Fighting French on the Italian front, was returning from a hospital show when she spotted two French officers struggling with an overturned jeep, promptly put her khaki-colored legs to work; helped straighten things...