The Woman Men Yearn For Marlene Dietrich silent film 1929 color and drawing added 2011
by David Lee Guss
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The Woman Men Yearn For Marlene Dietrich silent film 1929 color and drawing added 2011
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Marlene Dietrich is well known for her sound films, especially her collaborations with the director Joseph von Sternberg. Films such as The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil is a Woman (1935) are well known and not infrequently shown or screened. Each is also available on DVD.
What's little known and seldom seen are Dietrich's silent films. On Saturday, July 16th, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen one of the actress' best early works, The Woman Men Yearn For (1929). This German silent, directed by Kurt Bernhard and originally titled Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt, stars Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, and Oskar Sima.
As the Festival film notes suggest, Dietrich's performance in The Woman Men Yearn For prefigures her Sternberg directed 'dances of passion and power.'
Without question, her charisma is in full flower, suggesting that she brought rather more to Sternberg than is usually acknowledged. Dietrich works her trademark stillness, economy and intensity, with all the centrality of a star, and from her striking entrance, she is photographed like a star, yet Bernhardt's silent film was forgotten in the rush to talkies and the excitement of The Blue Angel, and Marlene herself was content to forget it.'"
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