Wednesday, November 9, 2011

It's show time

One of my favourite scenes towards the end of Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair. Marlene Dietrich plays the former mistress of a high-ranking Nazi, now a cabaret singer in post-war Berlin. Her singing is fabulous and the tension builds up.

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  1. I'd always somehow assumed that Marlene Dietrich actually WAS the former mistress of some high-ranking Nazi, but maybe I have got mixed up somewhere along the line.

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  2. I'd always somehow assumed that Marlene Dietrich actually WAS the former mistress of some high-ranking Nazi, but maybe I have got mixed up somewhere along the line.

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  3. I'd always somehow assumed that Marlene Dietrich actually WAS the former mistress of some high-ranking Nazi, but maybe I have got mixed up somewhere along the line.

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  4. As a matter of fact Dietrich spent the war entertaining American troops (well from December 1941 onwards) because she felt it was the right thing to do, as she told a reporter some years later. After the war she returned to Germany in American uniform and that cause a bit of a hoo-ha.

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