Excerpt from the 1926 silent film, "Manon Lescaut", with Lya de Putti in the title role and featuring Marlene Dietrich as a courtesan. Thanks to T.T for the video!
Next to Lya de Putti Marlene is the best of all here. She plays right while the others make faces. It was the first feature film with Marlene Dietrich to be shown in the USA in 1926 and distributed by Paramount.
Never seen this before. Thanks for sharing. Got any more silent Dietrichs? Of course, Marlene denied ever making films before the Blue Angel - it didn't fit in with the image, did it?
You'll be surprised but she didn't denied it , at least always . In USSR when she spoke with Gleb Skorohodov she told him that she never denied it, and it just journalists who tell that and she just didnt disprove it. The book called 5 evenings with Marlene Dietrich, it's in Russian language. It's a kind of biography-Gleb's perception of her entwined with her spoke to him, he was on all shows in Moscow
4:08 that Marlene look down&up with her eyes. Then she use this expression while performing Where have all the Flowers gone, and maybe somewhere else too
