Even as a cigarette girl Marlene has the best lighting.
Nice drapes.
While watching the movie, I kept wondering whether the governor was that funny guy from all the movies, and:
It is! I didn’t know that Edward Everett Horton had done even slightly straight roles like this. But he’s excellent here, too.
This really isn’t that much of a movie — it’s mainly a vehicle to watch Marlene Dietrich being pretty on the screen. But even so, von Sternberg makes the most of it, and we get a very amusing little movie where Dietrich is The Bad Girl; the Baddest Girl Ever In A Movie.
The Devil is a Woman. Josef von Sternberg. 1935. ⚄
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