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...Devil Is a Woman (Paramount). Marlene Dietrich is one of the most beautiful and dynamic actresses in Hollywood. Director Josef von Sternberg is an eccentric specialist who enjoys filling his camera lens with shadows, antique furniture, objects d'art and confetti. To most observers, these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...average human being may drink from five to ten pints of tea daily without ill effect, decided Dietrich P. Fisher of Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Many Meetings | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...Intense excitement at this point, because both took her to dinner the same night, the present Duke of Kent afterward taking his blonde cousin to see Marlene Dietrich in The Blonde Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN-DENMARK: Solution | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they dust off and beautify a love-loving chambermaid to fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...leading lady. When, after a year spent in publicized seclusion, Anna Sten appeared in Nona last winter, critics deplored the picture, reserved judgment on its star. We Live Again exhibits her where she belongs, in Russia, and should cause her to be classed with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as an importation who deserves all the attention she can get. She speaks better English than she did in Nona, looks a little thinner, acts as well. Good shot: Katusha drinking vodka in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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