Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flame of New Orleans (Universal). The gay and adventurous tart has given many a cinemaddict 90 minutes of release and fun. In The Flame of New Orleans Marlene Dietrich, fresh from the sultry antics of Seven Sinners and under the direction of famed French Director Rene Clair (Le Million), rides again...
...Claire Ledoux, an international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
Preston Sturges has had more ballyhoo lately than Dietrich's legs or any other stock Hollywood commodity. He is the one man out there who can write, direct, and show his charges how to act out a movie. His latest and best personal triumph is "The Lady Eve," as insinuating a farce as has ever decked a Boston screen...
Quivered blonde, pants-wearing Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich: "When I started the custom of wearing men's trousers I never dreamed it would spread to such universal proportions. ... It actually makes me shudder when I see fat, squat women waddling around in slacks...
...that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless to conceal the wrinkles that make-up and careful lighting won't hide. Photographing rubber chins and putty noses on a bias to avoid detection is a matter of course...