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The six films Josef von Sternberg made with the star he 'created', Marlene Dietrich, are a triumph of pure style and sensual excess over novelettish plots.

Valentino: The Last Emperor has been shortlisted for a Best Documentary Oscar. But director Matt Tyrnauer writes that the star's diva act and the film's financial crises nearly sank it.

Genius, bully, Svengali film director Josef von Sternberg dominated Hollywood's Golden Age.

Celebrity cars are always fascinating, especially when they are classic cars owned by famous Hollywood movie stars.

RICHARD TODD is well known for his films but GRAHAM BALL recalls what the humble Dam Busters star dubbed his 'most important' role R ichard Todd was an actor who won a unique place in the heart of British audiences.

The actor who played wing commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters, and was first choice to play James Bond, has died Press Association guardian.co.uk , Friday 4 December 2009 11.51 GMT Richard Todd, pictured with Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Stage Fright.

A CLASSIC tale of murder and deception comes to Tideswell this week when Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution is performed by Tideswell Community Players and Buxton Drama League.

"Now where and what is Chuck-a-Luck? Nobody knows and the dead won't tell..." Rancho Notorious hasn't weathered well despite the fact that it has two of Germany's greatest filmic exports working together.

Kate O'Mara and Frank Barrie star as Marlene Dietrich and her good friend Noel Coward in Chris Burgess's Lunch With Marlene and Noel at the Yvonne Arnaud Lunch with Kate O'Mara and Frank Marrie November 05, 2009 AUDIENCES are in for a real treat as Kate O'Mara and Frank Barrie recreate a charming encounter between the legendary Marlene Dietrich and ...

It was sleaze all right, but sleaze of a refined and exclusive kind. Throughout their long heyday, the brothels of Paris were as alluring and luxuriously chic as any gentlemen's club or aristocratic salon.

This CD/DVD package, timed to mark 70 years since the Second World War began, is full of musical curios representing a plucky Britain under siege.

Half-stumbling, half-limping across the screen, Orson Welles, star of Touch of Evil , bears little resemblance to his younger self.

Emily Blunt is Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend is her husband, Prince Albert, in the historical drama "The Young Victoria." Buzzworthy movies will open and close the Three Rivers Film Festival next month but four dozen-plus other features will be sandwiched between.

SMOKE and Sound at the Civic Theatre on Sunday, October 11 will allow the audience to get a taste of the glorious cabaret years of 1920s and 30s Berlin.

KATE O'Mara returns to Worthing as Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich in a new play Lunch With Marlene And NoA l, opposite Frank Barrie as the wry playwright Coward.

Recommended this review to a friend Printer Friendly Of Marlene Dietrich's fifty or so feature film appearances, I have only seen about five or six.

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "Marlene" : Marlene Dietrich, grand Deutsch diva, is sublimely frank and haughty in this miraculous documentary portrait of the late actress.

The Lincoln Parish Library is offering an escape from the dog days of summer with a hilarious trip to the old West.

Genre: Drama With Music Directed by: Josef von Sternberg Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Rita La Roy, Robert Emmett O'Connor No, Blonde Venus isn't the best of the series of movies that Josef von Sternberg made with Marlene Dietrich between 1930 and 1935.

So what's the secret? Glamour with a capital G - and knowing how to work it ... Marilyn Monroe believed that beauty secrets should stay secret According to playwright Arthur Miller , 'A beautiful woman can turn heads, but real glamour has a deeper pull.