tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post4670843077418963366..comments2024-02-22T16:14:52.668-08:00Comments on Marlene Dietrich: The Last Goddess: The Great Recasting: The Devil Wears DiorJosephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-46207829425563460642013-08-21T13:29:42.104-07:002013-08-21T13:29:42.104-07:00Thanks, Cara! This concept was fun, and I'd li...Thanks, Cara! This concept was fun, and I'd like to try it again if I can think of a Dietrich film and another film that share such strong parallels as these two movies.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-20998150498489730292013-08-19T10:16:44.125-07:002013-08-19T10:16:44.125-07:00This is the most brilliant post ever. I can't ...This is the most brilliant post ever. I can't believe I missed this. You are genius.Carahttp://illustratedstorybook.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-12904229779927468802013-08-09T13:05:23.636-07:002013-08-09T13:05:23.636-07:00I'd pay to watch that, too, and--if we could t...I'd pay to watch that, too, and--if we could transcend time--I'd even pay to watch Naomi Campbell hurl a cellphone at Wyman's head.<br />--JosephLast Goddess Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17807656748381355102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-33230520086460223192013-08-08T22:27:43.353-07:002013-08-08T22:27:43.353-07:00Love this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, I would pay...Love this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, I would pay good money to see this movie or the one where Joan Crawford plays Meryl's part and slaps Jane Wyman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-48674280255426459242012-08-04T05:46:42.788-07:002012-08-04T05:46:42.788-07:00Ha! My Marlene myopia does tend to blind me to oth...Ha! My Marlene myopia does tend to blind me to other topics. I certainly could have seen Joan Crawford or Bette Davis verbally abusing plain Jane Wyman, but they wouldn't have done it as coolly. In fact, Joan would have probably lost her cool and slapped Jane.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-4484830483607628532012-08-03T12:17:50.136-07:002012-08-03T12:17:50.136-07:00Great recasting, Joseph! Marlene in a Meryl role w...Great recasting, Joseph! Marlene in a Meryl role would be superb to watch. And poor Jane Wyman! Only in he captions here she suffered enough!<br />I'm also in the blogathon recasting The English Patient (but no Marlene, sorry).<br />Greetings!Lêhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02419693749682458647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-47788988010087038422012-07-30T22:50:36.050-07:002012-07-30T22:50:36.050-07:00If Judy Holliday had a Thalidomide baby, it would ...If Judy Holliday had a Thalidomide baby, it would be Madonna in <em>Who's That Girl</em>! Someone like Jennifer Tilly would have done a better job at playing the part, but I have a secret--I still enjoy the movie.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-87374567599940258082012-07-30T19:45:24.325-07:002012-07-30T19:45:24.325-07:00Hysterical, I was chatting with a client and said ...Hysterical, I was chatting with a client and said if we had a time machine MD would have been the perfect Miranda. <br /><br />Sidenote Joseph- Who's that Girl? Ugh. Talk about a walking contraption.umaneohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14564849430020350102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-48410991752949942172012-07-29T23:42:57.529-07:002012-07-29T23:42:57.529-07:00You're too kind! There are moments when I watc...You're too kind! There are moments when I watch a movie that has nothing to do with another, yet I superimpose the two in my head, which was the case here. Another pair of movies that get me thinking this way are Marlene's <em>Manpower</em> and Madonna's <em>Who's That Girl</em>, but I'm not cruel enough to subject blogathon readers to a blended reading of those turkeys!Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-77397765160239204262012-07-29T23:32:39.249-07:002012-07-29T23:32:39.249-07:00Thank you for hosting! It was a fun idea!Thank you for hosting! It was a fun idea!Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-798968842745691952012-07-29T19:31:02.369-07:002012-07-29T19:31:02.369-07:00This whole post is flawless, really. I love every ...This whole post is flawless, really. I love every bit of it. When you said you were going to recast Marlene Dietrich in the Meryl Streep role, I knew this recasting was going to great from then on. I can really see her in the role; better fit than any other classic actress, I think. This is a new movie I loveee, so I'm glad you chose to recast it. Brilliant! Thanks for joining.Riannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02944970449461089647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-43558978985754277882012-07-29T09:59:31.180-07:002012-07-29T09:59:31.180-07:00And yet again I forgot to discuss another topic yo...And yet again I forgot to discuss another topic you raised--the Production Code! Some of the lines in <em>Stage Fright</em>, aside from being amusingly off-kilter (e.g., Charlotte Inwood's final anecdote about her dog), are quite naughty. My favorite conversation is between Detective Wilfred "Ordinary" Smith (Michael Wilding) and Eve Gill (Wyman).<br /><br />SMITH: Perhaps you’re allergic to bars. Look, would you feel less uneasy if I sat with you, or more uneasy? Perhaps you’re allergic to strange men, too.<br />EVE: No, I love strange men! I mean—I’m very fond of them.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-59591030339392553782012-07-29T09:40:24.822-07:002012-07-29T09:40:24.822-07:00Almost none of today's actresses in their 20s ...Almost none of today's actresses in their 20s or younger appeal to me, although I have a soft spot for Mila Kunis. I even watched some movie that should have gone straight to a 4 a.m. Comedy Central time slot (if fact, that's probably how I watched it!) just for Mila--<em>Extract</em>. I hope she does a movie with one of my current favorites, Charlize Theron.<br /><br />That quote attributed to Marlene about David's coming-out sounds like something I could imagine coming from her mouth. I'll have to find this article myself because it's quite colorful! Every time I see references to peasants in relation to Dietrich, I think to myself, "Am I in a pre-WWI time warp, where the world's made of kaisers, tsars, and serfs?" Someone who claimed to be a Riva (perhaps Peter because the IP address is for Gila, New Mexico, where he resides) made this delightfully snobby, queeny remark <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Marlene_Dietrich/Archive_1" rel="nofollow">on Wikipedia</a> years back, "God, we, the family, love it when people made this nonsense up [Joseph's note: regarding Dietrich going on a date with Hitler]. Total rubbish, of course, but sounds good. She was WAY too high class to ever think of meeting that peasant turned butcher."Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-9271424794235262682012-07-29T09:11:51.076-07:002012-07-29T09:11:51.076-07:00Oh, The Devil Wears Prada owes its soul to Funny F...Oh, <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em> owes its soul to <em>Funny Face</em>! Thankfully, it wasn't made into a musical because I wouldn't have been able to put up with Anne acting oh-so-Broadway. In fact, I intend to snicker and sneer at her when <em>Les Miserables</em> hits theaters. I had a lot of fun with this recasting blogathon because I did a bit of research on the early '50s (apologies for any inaccuracies!), and Kay played the spitting image of <em>Harper's Bazaar</em> head honcho, Carmel Snow.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970797639620201166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-18136229562362365822012-07-29T06:18:38.388-07:002012-07-29T06:18:38.388-07:00Wonderful recasting...perhaps this movie actually ...Wonderful recasting...perhaps this movie actually happened without us knowing it, then disappeared <i>a la</i> the notorious pre-Code "Convention City," and Marlene's character influenced Kay Thompson's acerbic fashion editor in "Funny Face" some six years later (think pink!).VP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-86639898004760530262012-07-29T01:28:16.273-07:002012-07-29T01:28:16.273-07:00Very amusing,always loved Stage Fright,what with a...Very amusing,always loved Stage Fright,what with all the Nellie,Doris talk.Besides Marlene looks glorious in it apart from the OTT "La vie en Rose" dress.Poor Jane Wyman didn't stand a chance,she really was criminally plain,Anne Hathaway as well,can't believe her career has lasted this long,no personality,no nothin.<br />I have just dug out a photocopy of an article July 14,1998,from Globe,a twashy supermarket mag."Marlene Dietrich made me gay!"It's about her grandson J David Riva,and I can't quite tell if it is all a bit of a send up.Quote:Even though she was out of the closet,her grandson was shocked at her reaction in 1983 when he announced that he is gay."She said,'I think it's marvelous darling-it's the most creative thing anyone in your family has ever done!"<br /><br />He talks about dressing her up as a peasant to take her to Notre Dame cathedral via the back fire escape."He saw his 87-pound grandmother just three months before her death in 1992 at age 90."<br />"She hadn't left her bed in two years"says David"Then one day she tried to use the phone.But when she tried to walk,she fell,passed out face down on a pillow and suffocated"<br />I really don't know what to think about this,probably all rubbish of course.Couldn't get to the Globe website from the UK,to see if there were any other references to this or apologies.PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834131700403691808.post-61266197836960054152012-07-28T22:48:55.551-07:002012-07-28T22:48:55.551-07:00Thanks so much for joining this blogathon! Your po...Thanks so much for joining this blogathon! Your post was great! :D <br /><br />Natalie @ In the MoodNataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10663789404590722274noreply@blogger.com