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...morning last spring a worried young Broadway producer strode aboard a Los Angeles-New York plane with TIME'S May 1st issue clutched in his hand. For more than a year handsome Ernie Martin had scouted movies, radio, TV and theater, but he could not find the right soprano to play the mission doll in his new musical, Guys &Dolls. The girl had to be able to sing like an old trouper and look like a teen-aged angel...
...Blue Angel," Marlene Dietrich's first film, shows her at her leggy best. In this old film, revived at the Kenmore theater, she plays "Lola Lola," a singer in a small cabaret. This is exactly what she was before Director Josef van Sternberg "discovered" her. The film in its original 1929 version was silent, but a German sound track and English subtitles have been added...
...plot concerns Herr Professor Emanuel Rath, a teacher in the local high school, who finds that Lola Lola is distracting his students. He goes to the "Blue Angel" cabaret to catch the truants, but instead falls in love with Lola Lola. He marries her and joins the troupe of actors. Soon he is reduced to playing stooge for the magician. In one horrifying scene he is made to crow like a rooster on the stage while he watches his wife flirt with the strong man in the wings. He finally goes mad and, after an attempt to kill Lola Lola...
Marlene Districh made The Blue Angel 20years ago in Germany; it is playing at the Little Carnegie, next door to the big one on 57th Street...
According to Seaton-Segall biology, unborn children are little angelic sprites who haunt the premises of their parents-to-be, wistfully awaiting their entrance into a solid world where they can taste ice cream. While Gigi Perreau thus languishes to be conceived, she gives tips to the angels on how to further the project. Angel Webb, a vain, sarcastic know-it-all, then materializes into the couple's life, hatches aphrodisiacal schemes and almost loses his angelic franchise when confronted with temptations of the flesh (Joan Blondell...