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There are more beautiful women and better actresses in Hollywood than Marlene Dietrich. But no other embodies so perfectly that elusive combination of qualities-variously defined as glamour, personality or, even, color-which added to less subtle requisites makes a beautiful actress a Star. Marlene Dietrich is not so good a tragedienne as Greta Garbo. She is inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace...
This began the strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished...
...when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely lonely. Acquaintances believe that her best friend is her hairdresser, Nellie Manley...
...teeth of Russian cannon fire through a valley at Balaklava, in the Crimean war, proved to be a maneuver less beneficial to England's military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge of the Light Brigade explains the confusion in the Crimea as romantically as possible...
Trend of the Yean Most significant aspect of last week's round-up of radio listings was the increasing tendency of some of the biggest and smartest U. S. advertisers to get their glamour this season at the nation's glamour headquarters: Hollywood. As evidence of Radio's Hollywood trend, admen pointed to a dozen important programs scheduled to be regularly broadcast from the cinema capital this season, in comparison with last season's four or five. With Radio thus definitely established in Hollywood, cinemactors gazed bug-eyed with joy at Variety's report that...