Blue Angel (55 page)

88
-She attached no: Von Sternberg, p. 225.

89
–90-People have said: Ruth Biery, “Is Dietrich Through?”
Photoplay
, Jan. 1933, p. 110.

90
-I felt:
New York Mirror
, June 18, 1961, p. 2; see also Selma Robinson, “I couldn’t compete with my Mother,”
Ladies Home Journal
, October 1951, p. 56.

90
-I remember: John Calendo, “Dietrich and the Devil,”
Interview
, November 1972.

91
-I am here: “Charges Bared in Mrs. von Sternberg’s Suits on Film Star,”
Los Angeles Herald
, Aug. 8, 1931.

93
-Clive Brook wanted: Lee Garmes to DS, Aug. 20, 1977.

94
-genuine and tremendous:
Vanity Fair
, December 1931, p. 41.

94
-careful elimination: Quoted in Homer Dickens,
The Films of Marlene Dietrich
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1968), p. 103.

95
-I have enjoyed: Whitney Williams, “Marlene Dietrich Hints at Quitting Hollywood,”
Los Angeles Herald
, Feb. 7, 1932.

99
-a joy to: Sam Coslow,
Cocktails for Two
(New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1977), p. 127.

99
-obviously on close: Dick Moore,
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
(New York: Harper and Row, 1984), p. 138.

99
–100-I do not: Eileen Creelman, “Picture Plays and Players,”
New York Sun
, Sept. 28, 1933. See also Biery,
art. cit
., p. 29.

100
-It is behind: Creelman,
art. cit
.

101
-All right, George: Whitney Stine,
The Hurrell Style: 50 Years of Photographing Hollywood
(New York: John Day, 1976), p. 109.

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104
-Like every German:
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 26, 1933.

105
-a little blackbird: Jean Howard to DS, July 15, 1990.

105
-seemed such: Mercedes de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
(New York: Reynal, 1960), pp. 72, 74, 103.

106
-put records on:
Ibid
., p. 215.

106
-I was moving:
Ibid
., p. 271.

106
-sometimes twice:
Ibid
., p. 243.

106
-You are the:
Ibid
., pp. 242ff.

108
-This created: Davidson,
art. cit
., pp. 166–67.

108
-I had the: Bogdanovich,
art. cit
., p. 57.

110
-I am very:
New York World-Telegram
, July 29, 1933.

111
-everything bad: Anthony Heilbut,
Exiled in Paradise
(New York: Viking, 1983), p. 34.

111
-We poor Germans:
Ibid
., p. 321.

114
-They say von Sternberg: Jack Grant, “Marlene Dietrich Answers Her Critics,” a 1934 interview: reprinted in Martin Levin, ed.,
Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines
(New York: Arbor House, 1970), p. 178.

114
-If you want: Quoted by Joel McCrea in Kobal, p. 301.

115
-He was killing: Leatrice Gilbert Fountain,
Dark Star
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 247.

115
-loveliest dreams: Scott Donaldson,
By Force of Will
(New York: Viking, 1977), p. 189.

116
-I never ask: A. E. Hotchner,
Papa Hemingway
(New York: William Morrow, 1983), p. 25.

116
-run by the stars: Donaldson, p. 232.

116
-She is a complete:
Los Angeles Examiner
, Oct. 12, 1934.

119
-Von Sternberg made: Cesar Romero to DS, Oct. 2, 1988.

120
-an insult to:
Daily Telegraph
(London), Oct. 30, 1935.

120
-I am no longer: Edwin Schallert, “Dietrich Discloses Why She Left von Sternberg,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 3, 1935.

120
-He dreaded the day:
Marlène D
., pp. 85, 93–94.

121
-My salary is:
Evening Standard
(London), Jan. 4, 1936.

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N
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124
-fragrant and cool: Basil Rathbone,
In and Out of Character
(New York: Doubleday, 1962), p. 147.

125
-Permitted to walk: Frank S. Nugent,
New York Times
, April 13, 1936, p. 15.

125
-She was a: Edith Head and Paddy Calistro,
Edith Head’s Hollywood
(New York: Dutton, 1983), p. 29.

126
-Falling into: Engstead, p. 76.

127
-I adored: Fountain, p. 257.

129
-I told her: Rudy Behlmer, ed.,
Memo from David O. Selznick
(New York: Viking, 1972), pp. 100–101.

130
-It’s twash: Joshua Logan,
Josh: My Up and Down, In and Out Life
(New York: Delacorte, 1976), pp. 87–104.

131
-It isn’t that:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
, Feb. 23, 1936.

132
-she only makes: Jacques Feyder and Françoise Rosay,
Le Cinéma—notre métier
(Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1946), pp. 56–58. For Harry Stradling’s recollections, see Richard Whitehall, “The Blue Angel,”
Films and Filming
, Oct. 1962, p. 20.

133
-slipped and sprawled:
Time
, vol. 28, no. 22 (Nov. 30, 1936), p. 41.

133
-You can have: Willi Frischauer,
European Commuter
(New York: Macmillan, 1964), p. 113.

135
-really like brother: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to DS, March 29, 1990.

135
-only her passing: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
The Salad Days
(New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 260.

136
-rarely seemed:
Ibid
., pp. 30–31.

at the root: Frank Nugent,
New York Times
, Nov. 4, 1937, p. 29.

140
-Marlene Dietrich:
Der Stürmer
, Oct. 6, 1937 (trans. in
New York Times
, Oct. 7, 1937, from Reuters).

141
-really a rather: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to DS, March 29, 1990.

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T
EN

145
-motions of secrecy: Fairbanks, pp. 273, 275.

146
-I am glad:
Los Angeles Examiner
, June 10, 1939.

148
-His melancholy: Dietrich, p. 152.

149
-Nobody knows: Davidson,
art. cit
., p. 168.

156
-sailor’s daughter:
Ibid
., p. 175. Remarque wrote as he felt.

156
–57-an exciting and forlorn: Erich Maria Remarque (trans. Walter Sorell and Denver Lindley),
Arch of Triumph
(London: Hutchinson Library Services, 1946), pp. 92, 101, 103, 120.

157
-Joan, he said:
Ibid
., pp. 145, 203.

one of the first: Dietrich, p. 153.

158
-The greatest compliment: In Ed Sullivan’s syndicated column “Hollywood” (e.g.,
Los Angeles Herald, New York Daily News
), Jan. 17, 1940.

159
-I had no friends: Selma Robinson, “I couldn’t compete with my Mother,”
Ladies Home Journal
, October 1951, p. 56.

159
-I was always:
Ibid
.

160
-Maria is as: Duncan Underhill, “Marlene Dietrich in Pants for
Seven Sinners
Role,”
New York World-Telegram
, July 6, 1940.

161
-With that wonderful: Tay Garnett with Fredda Dudley Balling,
Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights
(New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1973), p. 245.

161
-It’s very early: Pilar Wayne, with Alex Thorleifson,
John Wayne—My Life with the Duke
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), p. 39.

161
-one that wouldn’t:
Ibid
., p. 40.

162
-Unpleasant people: Dietrich, pp. 183–84.

163
-giving one of the:
Hollywood Reporter
, Oct. 24, 1940.

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165
-One American critic: Charles Thomas Samuels,
Encountering Directors
(New York: Putnam, 1972), pp. 79–80.

166
-a flop:
Marlene
, p. 184.

166
-he wasn’t exactly:
Ibid
., p. 132.

166
-an awfully stupid:
Ibid
., p. 184.

167
-like an orphan:
Ibid
., p. 135.

168
-He called her: Jean Renoir,
My Life and My Films
(New York: Atheneum, 1974), p. 226.

169
-Oh, hello: Fred Lawrence Guiles,
Tyrone Power: The Last Idol
(New York: Doubleday, 1979), p. 144.

169
-Gabin glanced:
Ibid
., pp. 144–45.

169
-The mothering: Quoted to Dean Goodman by Maria Sieber in 1943; Dean Goodman to DS, May 27, 1989.

169
-She is mother: Edward G. Robinson, with Leonard Spiegelgass,
All My Yesterdays
(New York: Hawthorn, 1973), p. 219.

169
–70-almost overnight:
New York Journal-American
, June 21, 1941.

170
-so subtly: Robinson,
ibid
.

171
-Oh, Georgie:
New York Post
, May 27, 1941.

171
-Watch Mama:
Life
, Aug. 18, 1952, p. 90.

172
-She couldn’t understand: David Chierichetti,
Hollywood Director
(New York: Curtis, 1973), p. 177.

176
-I’m not thinking: Associated Press wire release, March 9, 1942.