Tag: Dietrich

• Mutti Dearest. Daughter Dullest.

  Hollywood Books (Part Ein): Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva Ahh, Veteran’s Day not long ago. The leap of Spring is now long gone, along with the smoked salmon celebrations and the psyche-graveling guilt of Mother’s Day. Back in olden times, when dinosaurs played canasta and ice cubes could speak, AMC aired Mommy Dearest on repeat…

  Dana D. Burnell

  October 24, 2019

  Golden Age Hollywood, Sex Symbols, Uncategorized

  Dietrich

• The Wilde World of “Nothing Sacred”

  I like any chance I get to think about Oscar Wilde, and there are surprisingly frequent opportunities in life to do so:  Whenever one gives in to temptation, sees ghastly wallpaper, or greets a widow with newly blonded hair.  Anytime you encounter someone so improbably youthful that you assume they have a ghoulish self-portrait in their attic.  Whenever you…

  Dana D. Burnell

  April 15, 2012

  Film & Storytelling, Golden Age Hollywood

  “Nothing Sacred”, Dietrich, Lombard, Selznick, Wilde