Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clef is needed for this roman. Real stars parade by in abundance. Tryon also provides long lists of plausible but fictive movies and imaginary songs that set America humming (Ditto, Really Truly True). Even the four principal characters are amalgams of known personalities. Fedora owes something to Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson; lest readers think that she is any of these ladies, Tryon puts them all in Fedora's story...
...dance studios for $1 an hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket and inspired $1.2 million in contributions to the impoverished performance center, included compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Tchaikovsky-the latter...
...sometimes tips his actor's hand by a little too much of the loveable Churchillian bit; generally he is unforgettable. Almost as important here is his wife Elsa Lanchester who mostly pipes at Laughton and confiscates his cigars. Yes, it's true that even in middle age Marlene Dietrich has terrific legs, and she is an acceptable actress; Tyrone Power is unbelievable and lousy. Agatha Christie, as usual, turns everything...
Bitter Falling. Even more implausible was the person named as executor of the will-Noah Dietrich, 87, Hughes' longtime lieutenant. The two had a bitter falling out in 1956 and never reconciled. Dietrich said last week, "I have no question that it's his [Hughes'] handwriting and his signature...
...Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...