Tanjil Rashid

The legend of Marlene Dietrich

No performer before or since has been so synonymous with pure eroticism

Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Desire (1936), ‘the best film in which Miss Dietrich has appeared since she left Germany’ wrote Graham Greene in The Spectator

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