Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it's strong John Wayne, who owns the gold mine, v. Randolph Scott, who doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...
...were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...
...Marlene Dietrich, after twelve years of Hollywood, decided to try the U.S. stage, picked Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband, planned to start rehearsals in March...
Shanghai Gesture is notable for its inexcusably bad acting and directing. Magniloquent Director Josef von Sternberg (once plain Joe Stern of Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...
...same is true, to a lesser extent, of Bach's great idol and older contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude. He has been so cozily dove-tailed as an "influence" that no one finds time to re-examine the traditional dictum and set him back on his pins as a composer in his own right. My personal feeling is that once exhumed, such a piece of Buxtehude's music as the Toccata in F that Weinrich is playing will be enjoyed by a good many people for its directness and simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time...