Shots in the dark: why the lure of the old-timers is still so strong.(Movie Column)

Interview | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

I was fascinated to learn that Gwyneth Paltrow had been cast as Marlene Dietrich in a film based on Maria Riva's memoir about her mother. Though the Dietrich mystique is inimitable, Paltrow is capable of capturing Dietrich's hauteur and erotic languor onscreen, and her insatiable romantic appetite off it. One of her major challenges will be to embody Dietrich in her pre-Hollywood years, when, in The Blue Angel (1930), she was the fleshy epitome of cheerful vulgarity in Weimar Germany.

I'm less convinced the film's makers will be able to find suitable actors to play ...

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