59-The Blue Angel - Director:Josef von Sternberg. Cast: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron and Rosa Valetti.


"Marlene-
Isn't it fascinating.
When we say Marlene-
It conjures up a picture:
Beautiful beautiful legs-
Attached to a gorgeous torso-
Draped-dressed-decorated with
material or dresses or pants or coats or furs--
And one looks-
And-
OH!
There's that lovely head commanding this great show-
With it's soft and suggestive message
of all the joys life offers us--
And she is fun and sweet and true--
Thank you--
Dear Marlene--

Affectionately,

Kate. (Hepburn)


"One of the things about her that astonished me most was her knowledge of the technical side of motion pictures.She seemed to know everything.She constantly watched the camera and the light,and she would politely superintend,make suggestions to the cameraman and gaffers so subtly and so sexily that no one was offended,and she got precisely what she wanted.(I didn't mind:what possible difference could it make which side of my face was photographed?Both sides were equally homely)
She came to my house often,loved the pictures,understood them,knew many of the artists personally,and wearing some of the most breathtaking gowns on record,would come off as an intellectual,which,indeed, she was.
My view of her as an actress?I am not sure I would call it talent;it is something beyond that-mystery,unavailability,distance,feminine mystique.She is the quintessential sex goddness;she is also the quintessential German hausfrau.She is mother as sex:sex as it was intended.
-Edward G. Robinson-


Cinemateca Portuguesa (1994)

1-Nosferatu -Murnau
2-The Rules of the Game -Renoir
3-M -Lang
4-L'Atalante -Vigo
5-Ivan the Terrible - Eisenstein
6-The Passion of Joan of Arc -Dreyer
7-The Blue Angel -Sternberg
8-Napoleon-Gance
9-Viaggio in Italia -Rossellini
10-The Last Laugh-Murnau