MARLENE Dietrich! (and The Fwame of New Owlins... )

hey guys... I like older silver screen films, with the GOOD actresses,
(gish garbo dietrich swanson davies davis pickford etc...) And I bought the flame of new orleans with marlene dietrich (and dick cavett!) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Has anyone seen this movie? if you have the chance, watch it...
although it's not one of her more famous films like blue angel or ninotchka, its really nice, like the plot moves at a regular place.. and it's pretty funny...
Are they any Dietrich fans out there on the forums?

 

"Ninotchka" is with Garbo not with Dietrich.
I've watched a couple of Dietrich movies but I think I like Garbo better, especially in "Anna Karenina".
I know many german silent movies, though.

What's that film about? A german in New Orleans, perhaps?

 

Touch of Evil <3<3<3

thass all I've seen her in, but she wasn't half bad in that

 

Dietrich, like Garbo, had a powerful androgeneous sexuality that influenced greatly the post WW1 sexual revolution.

I've only seen "Blue Angel", but I know Dietrich was famous for singing the most popular song of WW2. Popular amongst us and the Germans alike.

Moreover, Dietrich was also famous for spending more time in the front-lines entertaining the troops than most of the troops spent in the front-lines themselves.

If you liked Garbo in "Anna Karenina", I definitely recommend Garbo in Eugene O'Neil's "Anna Christie".

It was Greta's first talking picture, and she was perfect, but what else can one expect with a story from one of America's greatest playwrites, Eugene O'Neil.

 

thanks I'll check it out

 

Dietrich plays, with a natural panache', a wild Gypsy-girl in the film "Golden Earrings".

Intense, mystical, supersticious, street-smart survivalist, Dietrich is all of that in colorful Gypsy style.

Paramount actually tries for a level of authenticity rare for a hollywood studio of the time.

They literally emerse you into the inner workings of Gypsy life for a number of rare memorable scenes.

The only thing I can compare the numerous Gypsy scenes to is a Hippie Rainbow Gathering.

The similarities are striking, and when Dietrich sums up the psychic soul behind the mask of conventional culture with the penetrating remark "This acursed country will kill us all", I'm reminded of the Rainbow Gathering's spirit of resistance to conventional conformity.

Dietrich is so wild and uninhibited that she practically rapes poor Ray Milland who finds himself forced to hide amongst the Gypsies.

Ray Milland feels so pale and inadequate as milk-toast prey to Dietrich's ravenous, earthy desires, that the film's gender reversal comedy is as strong as is the film's adventurous life-threatening dangers.