I selected some images from
MARLENE's great films that stay in our memory an unique incarnation of feminine beauty and
seduction. In her movies she embodies the cold, strong woman, the impassive object
of desire for male and female. MARLENE knew how she looked best, she understood to
use light to enhance her steely features. She was the ideal body on which to drape
fetishistic garments, like silk, furs, boas, feathers and lot's of sparkel. Travis Banton, her designer in Hollywood did her first movie costumes at Paramount, under direction of Josef von Sternberg and created the incomparable 'DIETRICH Style'. She enjoyed wearing great gowns, hats, uniforms, epecially men's tails, which brought out her inigmatic pale face, the most alluring proportions of her pefect figure and the legendary long legs. The contrast between feminine frills and the masculine rigidity of a top hat she affected added to the male-female interplay the projected. This early MARLENE's mischivous androgyny stamped her for life. Only DIETRICH can give such beauty, such dignity, such allure to the scarlet letter. DIETRICH the glamorous - Exotic beauty of 'Morocco' - Tragic heroine of 'Dishonored' - Lovely derelict of 'Shanghai Express' - she didn't show even so much as a dainty ankle. And did the movie-goers howl ! - and even more gloriously luscious - as the girl who plays with love, the 'Blonde Venus'. "Okay," said MARLENE in a throaty guttural, "if they want legs - I'll give 'em legs ....." |
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The Blue Angel (Germany
1929/30)
An Erich Pommer-Production for Ufa, directed by
Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Lola Lola
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Tihamer Varady, Karl-Ludwig Holub
Songs:
Blonde Women; They
Call Me Naughty Lola;
Falling in Love
Again
Cast:
Emil Jannings, Kurt
Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers ...
Morocco (USA 1930)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Amy Jolly
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Songs:
Quand l´amour
meurt; What Am I Bid For My Apple
Cast:
Gary Cooper,
Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Dishonored (USA 1931)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as agent X-27
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Cast:
Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Shanghai Express (USA 1932)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Shanghai Lily
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Cast:
Clive Brook, Anna
May Wong, Warner Oland
Blonde Venus (USA 1932)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Helen Faraday
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Songs:
Hot Voodoo;
You Little So-and-So; I Couldn´t Be Annoyed;
German Lullaby
Cast:
Herbert Marshall,
Cary Grant, Dickie Moore
Song of Songs (USA 1933)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Rouben Mamoulian
MARLENE DIETRICH as Lily Czepanek
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Song:
Heideroeslein;
Johnny
Cast:
Brian Aherne,
Lionel Atwill, Alsion Skipworth
The Scarlet Empress (USA 1934)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Catherine the Great
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Cast:
John Lodge, Sam
Jaffe; Louise Dressler; Maria Sieber
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (USA
1935)
A Paramount Picture, Adolph Zukor
MARLENE DIETRICH at the Costume Fitting
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Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
A Style Preview of Forthcoming Motion Picture:
The Devil is a
Woman
Cast:
Kathleen Howard,
Travis Banton, Joan Bennet, Claudette Colbert, Mae West
The Devil is a Woman (USA 1935)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Concha Perez
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Song:
Three Sweethearts
Have I
Cast:
Lionel Atwill,
Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horten
Desire (USA 1936)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Frank Borzage
MARLENE DIETRICH as Madeleine de Beaupré
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Song:
Awake in a
Dream
Cast:
Gary Cooper, John
Halliday, William Frawley
The Garden of Allah (USA 1936)
A Selznick-International Picture, released through
United Artists, directed by Richard Boleslawski
MARLENE DIETRICH as Domini Enfilden
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Ernest Dryden
Cast:
Charles Boyer,
Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith
I Loved a Soldier (USA 1936)
A Paramount film, directed by Henry Hathaway
MARLENE DIETRICH (Film never completed)
Cast:
Charles Boyer, Akim
Tamiroff, Walter Catlett, Paul Lukas
Knight Without Armour (GB 1937)
Alexander Korda/London Films Presentation,
directed by Jacques Feyder
MARLENE DIETRICH as Countess Alexandra
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : George Benda
Cast:
Robert Donat, Irene
Vanburgh, Herbert Lomas
Angel (USA 1937)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
MARLENE DIETRICH as Lady Maria Barker
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton
Song:
Angel
Cast:
Herbert Marshall,
Melvyn Douglas
Destry Rides Again (USA 1939)
A Universal Picture, directed by George Marshall
MARLENE DIETRICH as Frenchy
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Vera West
Songs:
Little Joe
the Wrangler; You´ve Got That Look
See What the Boys
in the Backroom Will Have
Cast:
James Stewart,
Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer
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