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Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
...idea turns out to be neither novel nor bright. All that Marlene Dietrich could possibly prove in such a role is her competence as a comedienne, which she has already repeatedly proved, with much better material. The deliberate liquidation of all her other assets seems as pound foolish as it would be to cast Garbo as Topsy...
...general whimsicality of the picture is weary but Miss Dietrich does what she can with the laborious charade. She helps embarrassed Ray Milland, a fugitive Englishman, across several reels of "comedy drama" in wartime Germany, and conveys the idea that gypsies enjoy wild free lives and wild free loves...
Died. George E. Dietrich, 53, one of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm officers who swindled the firm out of about $11,000,000 in the late '30s; of leukemia; in Roslyn, L.I. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich (born Musica) worked with President F. Donald Coster (real name: Philip Musica) and two other brothers in the firm in the two-year embezzlement, but ratted on his brothers in court, escaped with a 2½-year prison sentence...
...Wanted to show they're better'n Marlene Dietrich's." As for the opera, she told a columnist, "I never saw the damn thing...