Marlene Dietrich@120

Mrs. Bertholt  (Marlene Dietrich) in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961): "I remember there was a reception given for Wagner's daughter-in-law. Hitler was there. Ernst Janning was there with his wife. She was very beautiful...very small, very delicate. She's dead now. Hitler was quite taken with her. He made advances towards her during the reception.  He used to do things like that in a burst of emotion. I will never forget the way Ernst Janning cut him down. I don't think anybody ever did it to him quite that way. He said, "Chancellor..."I do not object so muchthat you are so ill-mannered. "I do not object to that so much. "I object that you are such a bourgeois."Hitler whitened, stared at Janning, and walked out." (The character of Ernst Janning was based on Franz Schlegelberger) 

"We know God made trees

And the birds and the bees

And the seas for the fishes to swim in

We are also aware

That he has quite a flair

For creating exceptional women.

When Eve said to Adam

‘Start calling me Madam’

The world became far more exciting

Which turns to confusion

The modern delusion

That sex is a questions of lighting

Noel Coward:

"For female allure

Whether pure or impure

Has seldom reported a failure

As I know and you know

From Venus and Juno

Right down to La Dame aux Camélias.

This glamour, it seems,

Is the substance of dreams

To the most imperceptive perceiver

The Serpent of Nile

Could achieve with a smile

Far quicker results than Geneva.

Though we all might enjoy

Seeing Helen of Troy

As a gay cabaret entertainer

I doubt that she could

Be one quarter as good

As our legendary, lovely Marlene."

 

Noël Coward wrote this as his own introduction for the International star Marlene Dietrich when she appeared in cabaret in London at the Café de Paris in 1954.