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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...
Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...
This summer an employe of a U.S. cosmetics company, digging for betonite near Morden, Man., struck fossils. Paleontologist C.M. Sternberg of Ottawa's National Museum rushed thither, exhumed two 35-ft. mosasaur skeletons, declared them the best of the genus ever found in Canada...
...Queen. Whether or not Marlene Dietrich's vogue survives The Scarlet Empress, finished last April but held for release until the public forgets the queening of Garbo (Queen Christina) and Bergner (Catherine the Great), she will make at least one more picture directed by Josef von Sternberg. Most pretentious picture on Paramount's present schedule is Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Warren William as Caesar and 8,000 extras. The Legion of Decency will probably take loud alarm at She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware! and The Pursuit of Happiness, all Manhattan stage successes...