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Marlene Dietrich in the 1940s: The changing face of transgressive Hollywood As the films Marlene Dietrich made at Universal emerge on Blu-ray, Tamsin Cleary explores how the starâs transgressive image evolved under new management â and in changing times. 10 February 2021 The Spoilers (1942) Arriving in Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, Marlene Dietrich had a seismic impact on American film. Having already made an international name for herself in Josef von Sternbergâs landmark The Blue Angel (1930), Dietrich then followed her director from the Weimar Republic to the Paramount Pictures backlot that same year. Over the course of 5 years and 6 films, Sternberg and Dietrich would come to embody an idealised archetype of a great filmmaker and his muse, an artistic infatuation lauded the world over. ....
A hundred years ago this Monday, Julia Jean Turner was born in Wallace, Idaho. Her dad was a miner, her 17-year-old mother was practically a minor, and little Julia would be raised in peripatetic poverty. Remarkably, she overcame this unpromising start to become one of Hollywood’s biggest female stars, once some wise studio hack had persuaded her to change her name to Lana. A story persists that she was spotted buying a drink in Hollywood at 16, and ushered to the nearest film studio, but this legend is hard to verify. We do know that Zeppo Marx, brother of Groucho, Chico and Harpo, introduced her to director Mervyn LeRoy, who signed her for Warner Brothers. She later moved to MGM, where she established herself as one of the great beauties of 1940s Hollywood in films such as ....