Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefit of plot. We learn that Tom, Hudson's eldest son by his first wife, has just been killed over Europe in a Spitfire.* For one brief, delirious moment of pure fantasy, Tom's grieving mother appears and, after turning out to be none other than Marlene Dietrich, goes briefly to bed with Hudson. Such diversions, alas, are all but drowned in endless talk, mainly in Havana's Floridita Bar, where Hudson, now completely taken over by Papa Hemingway, holds forth to politicians, bartenders, soldiers and sailors and, yes, an elderly, wise, warmhearted prostitute named Honest...
...seductive idol of the British soldiers on leave from World War I. Secretly, she is a German spy named Schmidt. She flirts across the movie screen in sheer tights and ruffles, a rose between her teeth, gaiety masking her embittered spirit. The role seems precisely tailored for Dietrich. Instead it will be played by Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews has in fact gone the English dance-hall route before-and flopped miserably-in one of Hollywood's most expensive bombs. a multimillion-dollar loser called Star. On looks, anyway, Darling Lili figures to do better...
...corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets in German cities and towns have been renamed, often in honor of such heroes of the plots to overthrow him as Klaus von Stauffenberg, Julius Leber and Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adolf, once a popular name, is seldom bestowed on German children today. About the only lasting memento is the 1,800 miles of modern autobahnen Hitler built, but even these highways have been broadened, resurfaced and extended beyond recognition...
...party for film makers in the U.S. embassy residence in Buenos Aires, Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America presented a print of the movie The Scarlet Empress to Ambassador John Davis Lodge. Empress, a 1934 swashbuckler about Catherine the Great, starred Marlene Dietrich and a long-haired cavalier few friends would now recognize as balding Ambassador Lodge...
...perspective. Stage fright, he notes, usually begins with the actual scheduling of an event. An actor need only recall "the simple fact of the impending performance" to bring on moods of depression, spells of manic agitation, outbursts among intimates. And that goes for veterans as well as tyros. Marlene Dietrich acted out a classic example of the problem in the 1950 movie Stage Fright. Some years ago. the late Paul Muni was in New York to do a play. "After all the pictures I'd made, after so many years in the theater-yet when I walked up from...