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...Office of Strategic Services was producing propaganda material to be beamed across the battlefronts into Nazi Germany in 1942, but suspected its Hooper rating was low. In casting about for some way to lure more listeners to their radios, OSS remembered Marlene Dietrich. Her voice was far from the greatest in the world, but it had a haunting huskiness that Germans could well remember from such early Dietrich movies as The Blue Angel and from dozens of records (Jonny, Mein Blondes Baby, etc.). Actress Dietrich agreed. OSS picked familiar pop tunes and gave them brand-new German lyrics; Dietrich...
...single LP for Columbia, and, whether they had their intended effect on German listeners at the time or not, they are likely to get under a lot of U.S. skins in 1952. It doesn't matter very much that most U.S. listeners will not understand the words. Dietrich's voice nudges and teases such old melodies as Time on My Hands, Mean to Me and Taking a Chance on Love until they brood like bittersweet numbers by Edith Piaf...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). No Highway in the Sky, with Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart...
Rancho Notorious (RKO Radio) is not meant to be taken seriously-even though it begins with a rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...
...crescendo of six-shooters. Marlene brings the competence of long experience to her role of an aging seductress, Mel Ferrer is suitably dashing as "the fastest draw in the West," and Arthur Kennedy is all right as the vengeful lover, but he should not have been required to outrage Dietrich fans by delivering moral preachments...