Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first TV appearance this Saturday, Marlene Dietrich has been paid more, minute for minute, than any other star in television history, something in excess of $250,000. If she had been Cleopatra emerging from a 90-oar barge in the pollution of the Hudson, with 100 eunuchs throwing rose petals in her path, the executives at CBS would not have offered more-or been more excited at meeting her. Still, Dietrich is not happy. Not happy...
...critic of the New York Post, for instance, twice broke in to announce that he had just seen a cockroach marching across the floor.) In fairness to the TV writers, it has to be remembered that to Dietrich a stupid question is one that touches on 1) her age, 2) her beauty secrets, 3) her personal life, or 4) just about anything else a reporter might be interested in, including her daughter, the wife of an American toy manufacturer living in London, and her four grandsons...
...Cocteau had rhapsodized. "In your look, the Lorelei turns to us." Ah yes. What, then, does she think of Charles de Gaulle, still another famous friend? She jumps up and pulls down from one of the bookshelves that line the end of her living room a copy of Marlene Dietrich's ABC-her own special updating of La Rochefoucauld-and begins thumbing through the pages. "That is all in my book. Let's see. 'D'-De Gaulle." Consternation...
Mention of De Gaulle leads to a talk about World War II, which leads to Dietrich's heroic three years as a front-line entertainer, for which she was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. She is, all of a sudden, almost gay, close to voluble. She comments about Women's Lib ("It's ridiculous. I think a woman wants to be dominated by a man. Men are much cleverer than women. A dominating woman cannot be happy"). About the film directors she has most enjoyed working with (Josef von Sternberg...
...Marlene Dietrich--I Wish You Love. The grand vamp of legend debuts on American television in an hour-long special taped in London last year. Dietrich sings "Falling in Love Again." "Lili Marlene," and "Lola" among a host of other tunes that she made great. CH. 7. 10 p.m. Color...