''Dancing, music, champagne. The best way to forget...until you find something you want to remember..'' Oooooh..sends shivers. Pure class Dietrich. What a woman.
You probably dont care but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can stream pretty much all the latest movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my girlfriend for the last weeks xD
The aren't actually in the same room together. Marlene filmed her parts in Paris, where had taken up residence in her later years, and David filmed in Berlin, where he was living at the time. The filmmakers cut their separate footages together. They never even met! David was reportedly heartbroken over this...
It has been a while since I've seen it but I remember reading somewhere that they weren't ever actually on the same stage, they shot their scenes separately and then joined in editing.
In an interview Bowie was asked what it was like working with Marlene Dietrich. He said I wished I knew. Dietrich refused to come to Germany where the movie was shot. All her scenes were shot in Paris, and edited later. Incidentally, there is also a scene where he is cradling a piglet in his arms. The scenes were shot over a period of three weeks, during which the pig kept growing. In the movie the pig goes from small to big to small again, depending on which way the camera is pointing.
Dietrich was never our greatest singer, but her renditions of songs are so personal, so thought provoking, so emotional. The ending of the video when she sings, ..."and life goes on without me." I wanted to cry :(
Now both gone. Amazing to think about just how much one person can contribute to the world, or two, without being kings, queens, or heads of state. Just awesome, talented, risk taking, ground breaking, geniuses! RIP
+Jan DeFrank Marlene was 77 years old, perhaps more. She did not travel to Berlin but her scenes were shot independently in Paris and later cut into Bowie's scenes in Berlin. They did not meet.
+papoocanada It would of been better if they actually met and under other circumstances. Marlene wouldn't go to Berlin so they are never together in the same shot. The movie was not well or kindly received. It was Marlene's last film. David later referred to it as his "32 Elvis movies rolled into one".
with what envy the people above talk about Marlene! Do not believe them, all these rumors appeared after her death! She did not undergo plastic surgery to rejuvenate herself. She was magical :)
Dietrich was still amazing when this was made wish I was round to meet her then... Steven Spielber met her and said "they don't make'em like her anymore."
I saw this film many, many years ago when it was shown on cable. I watched it mainly to see Bowie...I was just starting my love-struck fascination with him in the early 80's when i entered high school. This scene I always loved two legends...a world that had lost its dignity.....love to see this one again.
Marlene and David what else can I say ,two of my favorites Marlene from the 1920s,and David from the 1970s,both departed but not forgotten,God bless them both,they may be gone but there not forgotten,their legacy of fame lives on in our hearts,rest in peace Marlene and David,amen🐦💙🌈💏😘💖💟👍✌😘💏
Digs into the memory, reminds me how I pursued his legendary creativity, but life does not, for me, go on the same without him.... David Bowie had a magic, and I hear stories of this magic, being revealed now.... but I am yet not to feel tragic...
Heavens to Murgatroid ! I had never even heard of this late 70s film until seeing it mentioned in a recent issue of "The New Yorker" magazine. Very interesting to see a young David Bowie and Ms Dietrich in her last film. Thank you very much for sharing this intriguing "blast from the past" ! CHEERS !! :-)
Actually lagerfeld made the outfit, and Marlene complained to the makeup artist that she hadn't given her "Marlene lips". She did it for the money (250,000 pounds). But she did think that Bowie was "a great stylist".
ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL, CLASSY, SENSUAL, ACCOMPLISHED! MARLENE COULD DO EVERYTHING, BE WHATEVER SHE WANTED TO, JUST BECAUSE... SHE WAS MARLENE, THE ONE AND ONLY GODDESS♥♡♥♡♥♡
I have seen photos of Marlene's outfit, which is now in the caring hands of a wonderful Dietrich collector, and its beautiful green color was not captured in this film. Nevertheless, it has always delighted me that two of my favorite stars appeared in a film together (albeit, with the magic of movie-making).
Dietrich deserved so much better than this travesty, I realised she did it for the money, it was ghastly, a great star like Dietrich should have had a more fitting farewell !
Such a strange little movie. I'm sure it was panned as being too sympathetic a portrayal of the post-world war I Germans and the their struggles . Bowie's character has returned from the war and cannot get employment, ending up quite tragically. The movie deserved more open minds and a kinder reception in my opinion
Yes, as I said, Dietrich and Bowie never got to meet, and Bowie was pretty disappointed. But health issues made it impossible. I'm sure there was money issues as well. My grama would let me stay up late with with her to watch old movies. Bette, Crawford, Garbo, and Dietrich especially, I thought of her like wonder woman! It was so weird to see her so frail...and so small. RIP MD
Although they never met, one would like to think they would've been fast friends. Filmed separately for this movie, it works because they each possessed the magc of their talent. As for Marlene, she was wise enough to stay out of the limelight in later years in order to preserve the legend, which she sensed she'd become. Like her, Bowie, too, was cognizant of his own immortality, and always played to the audience he created. They were stars extraordinaire!
Mark Hughes And now Prussia no longer exists. Thank God. It’s sole existence was to produce war. It was the only nation to be outlawed by the United Nations for that reason. Good riddance.
Marlene's daughter, Maria Riva, said that Dietrich was so drunk on the set of Just a Gigolo that she, Maria, had to hold up flash cards of the song lyrics.
Yeah but ya know her daughter never missed a chance to complain about her and naturally she's gonna see her in a different light, but it's like she's made a career out of complaining about her mother.. She may have been somewhat irresponsible, and selfish as a mother, but she did love her her daughter so much
Ha lived in a brownstone new York Town House which needless to say her mother provided for her daughter Paid i believe all the outgoings for the family Got nothing but resentment in return Maria is a classy version of Christina Crawford Still when eventually Maria passes Away Marlene Dietrichs daughter dies In life and death always in the shadow Thats the problem 😕
That whole speech coming from somebody who has never even been nominated for the Oscars, you can speak all the languages in the world, but you have never won one award with one of them, so there, checkmate!
