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...thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series of billboards in which Dietrich and her limbs were formally presented to the U. S. Writers, columnists created for von Sternberg's star the sobriquet he had envisaged, "Legs" Dietrich...
Publicity alone can never make a star. Publicity plus personality-and the star is half made. Add to these assets one real hit and the trick is done. Morocco-succinctly described by Variety as a "boxoffice socko"-was the hit. Von Sternberg directed it. He followed with Dishonored and Shanghai Express. The new contract which he negotiated for himself and Dietrich specified that she was to be paid $125,000 per picture-a record at that time. Von Sternberg got a percentage of the gross. The contract was extraordinary for provisions giving von Sternberg and Dietrich complete choice of writers...
...Socialist member of Parliament, spent two months in jail for rioting, made a scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party at the age of 76. With all this he wrote some 30 books, publishing the first when...
Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active...
...Thompson men, it was announced that oldtime Cinema Director Cecil B. De Milk was putting on the radio show. For his opening program from Hollywood, California's De Mille presented handsome Clark Gable and long-legged Marlene Dietrich, in a radio version of the six-year-old cinema Morocco. Miss Dietrich, whose voice is not her most celebrated asset, fascinated listeners with a mysterious whispered drawl. The Gable personality, currently one of the most popular at U. S. cinema boxoffices, registered more favorably n the air. Since then, on a talent budget whose maximum is said...