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...party for film makers in the U.S. embassy residence in Buenos Aires, Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America presented a print of the movie The Scarlet Empress to Ambassador John Davis Lodge. Empress, a 1934 swashbuckler about Catherine the Great, starred Marlene Dietrich and a long-haired cavalier few friends would now recognize as balding Ambassador Lodge...
...perspective. Stage fright, he notes, usually begins with the actual scheduling of an event. An actor need only recall "the simple fact of the impending performance" to bring on moods of depression, spells of manic agitation, outbursts among intimates. And that goes for veterans as well as tyros. Marlene Dietrich acted out a classic example of the problem in the 1950 movie Stage Fright. Some years ago. the late Paul Muni was in New York to do a play. "After all the pictures I'd made, after so many years in the theater-yet when I walked up from...
...church ceremony. I didn't understand his life and he didn't understand my friends." Peter admits, "I was trying to grab all the straight paraphernalia ? the country club, have a silver pattern register at Tiffany's." His new wife, Susan, was the stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich, an ex-assistant of Howard Hughes. His best man was a young millionaire named Eugene ("Stormy") McDonald...
...formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress...
Though in the divorce his name had been linked with such luminaries as Marlene Dietrich and Gail Russell, Wayne had a different altar ego. His new wife ?like the others?was of Latin extraction: a Peruvian exactress named Pilar Palette. "Just happenstance," he claims. "Whenever I've had free time I've been in Latin America...