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...treated in Marlene Dietrich's 1939 Destry Rides Again and Mae Westerns of the '30s, the come-hither approach proved a welcome change from they-went-thataway. Frenchie does not make the grade. The script's attempts to laugh at sex come down to smirks and leers, and Actress Winters plays a poor man's Mae West with little more authority than a schoolgirl flouncing through the attic in mother's old clothes...
Winding up the European theatre, The Blue Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, a German revival, is at the Art, 8th east of Fifth...
...Head (Tallulah Bankhead;. Columbia). For her debut as a pop singer, Tallulah has borrowed Marlene Dietrich's sub-basement baritone and German accent with results that will please curio collectors if not musicians...
...Blue Angel," Marlene Dietrich's first film, shows her at her leggy best. In this old film, revived at the Kenmore theater, she plays "Lola Lola," a singer in a small cabaret. This is exactly what she was before Director Josef van Sternberg "discovered" her. The film in its original 1929 version was silent, but a German sound track and English subtitles have been added...
...these elements are all secondary to Marlene Dietrich. It is her performance that gives the film its character and that marks it as extraordinary. In this film as in no other is the spirit of Dietrich crystallized. She is the epitome of the hard beiled cabaret queen. There is a constant implication of sex which would still be felt even if she had all her clothes...