La Vie en Rose

How do you tell the true story of the nearly mythical popular performer Edith Piaf? In epic proportions, of course.

"...escapades, Piaf truly embodies the "soul of Paris,” as Marlene Dietrich so famously said. Without a doubt, Cotillard’s (A..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Anatahan

"...the director responsible for creating the eternalized image of Marlene Dietrich ñ half mysterious, half knowing, and all woman...."

July 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...woman on water, counted the Duchess of Windsor and Marlene Dietrich among her friends (though Dietrich was something more..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Scanlines

The Bicycle Thief

"...is 1952's Western Rancho Notorious (D: Fritz Lang; with Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer), which for a first-time,..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...new stars to replace Weimar-era celebrities like the inimitable Marlene Dietrich (including, in a moment she rarely talked about,..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: May Movies

These picks all feature a "May" in the title or the cast

"...sensually hypnotic as she was when she starred alongside Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s rip-roaring melodrama Shanghai Express...."

May 29, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Get the Flare Out: Carving Up Old Clothes Again

Dig out the dated flares and make skinny pants.

"...some black satin ribbon down the sides, and be Marlene Dietrich. Get behind a few see-throughs and favor the..."

April 8, 2010 Design Post by Anne Harris

Blazing Saddles

"...hilarious performances of Korman and Kahn, who plays a Marlene Dietrich-like chanteuse...."

Nov. 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touch of Evil

"...Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Marlene Dietrich, Dennis Weaver, Mercedes McCambridge and Zsa Zsa Gabor...."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...AFS' émigré series. The film stars Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich as a straight-laced American congresswoman and a former..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Mad Dog Blues: So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?

ONE Theatre Company brings some unique touches to Sam Shepard's Mad Dog Blues, but ultimately, the show is the portrait of a playwright living out his rock star phase -- self-indulgent and rather embarrassing.

"...nine characters, including several pop culture icons such as Marlene Dietrich and Jesse James. At the helm are Yahoodi..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Destry Rides Again

"...Directed by: George Marshall. Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Una Merkel and Jack..."

June 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: George Marshall; with Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Charles Winninger...."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 12-18

"...her 90 years on the planet, actor and singer Marlene Dietrich reinvented herself numerous times. She had superb insight..."

June 12, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

How Costume Designer Edith Head Changed the Look of Hollywood

AFS Cinema spotlights films featuring the Oscar-winner's designs

"...that I longed to experience within myself. I remember Marlene Dietrich, her face framed by a bewitching circle of..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Column by Jill Morena

How the Reich Manipulated Pop Culture in Hitler's Hollywood

The power of propaganda

"...new stars to replace Weimar-era celebrities like the inimitable Marlene Dietrich (including, in a moment she rarely talked about,..."

July 13, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Continental Love Songs by Liv Mueller

Thursdays in the Gallery she marries punk/country/schmaltz

"...her Thursday, 8:30pm, shows in the Continental Gallery approximate Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Joan Jett banding together...."

May 29, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Jake Gyllenhaal Is An Axe Murderer

Right now through the prism of actors in music videos

"...classics, can’t tell the difference between Deborah Kerr and Marlene Dietrich...."

Jan. 22, 2014 Music Post by Lexie Maravich

The Lucky One

Taylor Swift’s Erwin Center circus proves her worth

"...back lit by the silhouette of a massive, glowing, Marlene Dietrich-like projection of her face...."

May 22, 2013 Music Post by Luke Winkie

How I Got Hitched

Richard Whittaker on Hitchcock when he was so very British

"...disheveled hair floating over her eyes like a furious Marlene Dietrich, her petticoat flashing as her skirt fans a..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

An Evening of Evil

Richard Hell hosts a film noir double feature

"...morbidly obese, drunken Quinlan famously asks fortune teller Tanya (Marlene Dietrich)...."

May 25, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

"...Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Rosalind Russell, Ida Lupino,..."

May 4, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Pilobolus

Weird as it may seem, after 40 years, the fungus is still among us

"...outfits that made him look like a cross between Marlene Dietrich and George Carlin. In Portland, the weirdness seems..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by John Job

Art Galleries

A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due

"...luminaries of his time: George Balanchine, Jorge Luis Borges, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Frost, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Arthur..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: SXSW: Let Me Guess

Rio eyed Shreveport. Shreveport eyed Rio.

"...Shreveport tried to smile like a cross between Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne, whom Shreveport thinks actually shared..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Rogue Waves

Ghosts of SXSW and the Chronicle past

"...(Orson Welles) talking to the fortune-teller and prostitute Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) in Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Some Kind of a Man

After a certain age, there's no avoiding how death is a permanent part of life

"...are supported by the facts. Some will say what Marlene Dietrich says when Orson Welles dies in Touch of..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

After a Fashion

Any friend of Edith Head, Algernon Moncrieff, and Vajazzling is a friend of Your Style Avatar

"...glorious ensembles for Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. Her costumes were dazzlingly iconic:..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

International Bands

Around the world in one-liners

"...Germany, had invented experimental jazz, Niobe would be its Marlene Dietrich. Equal parts Dadaism, Euro disco, and Diamanda Galás...."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Page Two: Masters and Commanders

Meditations on moving forces

"...of his performance, which seeps out of the film. Marlene Dietrich, playing Tanya the fortuneteller, responds to Quinlan when..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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