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Screen Goddess Collection - Marlene Dietrich
Film Description Six of the best from the iconic Marlene Dietrich, one of the most enigmatic and fascinating stars the silver screen has ever known. Features A Foreign Affair, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again, Devil Is A Woman, Shanghai Express and The Lady Is Willing.
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Review by R. Dixon Smith on 11th August 2006 G. K. Chesterton once said that art, like morality, consisted in knowing where to draw the line. Director Josef von Sternberg didn’t strip Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood’s greatest love goddess; he covered her up, he swathed her in furs, veils, and feathers, and in so doing created a subject far more erotic than any literalness could have achieved. Dietrich has been called the Trilby to von Sternberg’s Svengali, the Galatea to his Pygmalion. What made her so enigmatic was her cold disdain and sullenness, refined to include not only the weary glance but also a radiance brimming with soft lights and shadows. Throughout the seven films they made together, von Sternberg elaborated and developed increasingly more baroque variations on the subject of the femme fatale. Dietrich’s provocation and passivity, sexuality and serenity, remain constant. Three of her von Sternberg vehicles are featured in a new five-disc Screen Goddess collection. Shanghai Express (1932) is pure visual poetry, a tremendously lavish producion featuring fluttering pennants, slatted sunlight, latticed shadows, a long train ride from Peking to Shanghai, plus La Dietrich as the notorious Shanghai Lily. Blonde Venus (1932) has Dietrich emerging from a gorilla suit while singing “Hot Voodoo” – one of Hollywood’s most delicious pieces of camp kitsch. In The Devil Is a Woman (1935), Dietrich portrays the aloof, cryptic, Spanish seductress Concha in the most outrageously decadent of the von Sternberg–Dietrich collaborations, a dazzlingly sumptuous, stylized tour de force and one of the most beautiful Hollywood films ever made. Also included are three comedies: George Marshall’s hilarious Destry Rides Again (1939), with Dietrich as saloon singer Frenchy and James Stewart as folksy Sheriff Tom Destry; Mitchell Leisen’s The Lady Is Willing (1942), with Dietrich wooing obstetrician Fred MacMurray; and Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair (1948) set in occupied Berlin and co-starring Jean Arthur as the U.S. congresswoman who’s investigating ex-Nazi café singer Dietrich. View more reviews by R. Dixon Smith
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