Marlene Dietrich Costume Sells for $ 8 000

Marlene Dietrich's Destry Rides Again costume, offered at the Profiles of History auction of items from the collection of Debbie Reynolds, sold for $ 8 000 (buyer's premium excluded), the low end of their estimate. There was only one bid for the item.

When the costume was previously offered at auction a decade ago (probably when it was bought by Debbie Reynolds), it sold for $ 19 000.

Marlene Dietrich News Bytes

• As missladiva already wrote, one of Marlene Dietrich's Destry Rides Again costumes is up for auction. See it here. According to that page "Public previews [are] at the Paley Center for Media, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 [...] June 4-5, 8-12 and 15-17 [...] 12pm to 5pm," which I gather means you can take a gander at it for free if you can't afford the the $8,000 minimum bid. To those of you who admire Dietrich's collaborators, you may also enjoy gazing at the Travis Banton creations made for Rudolph Valentino, Carole Lombard, and Claudette Colbert (no Banton-Dietrich confections at this time, though).
• Speaking of fashion, the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa in Getaria, Spain, which was inaugurated on June 7, will open to the public on June 10. Visit the museum's website in the language of your choice (English | español | Euskara | français) and see its YouTube channel. According to some articles, a Dietrich gown will be on display. If so, perhaps Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin (MDCB) loaned it out? Maybe it's in one of the YouTube videos? I didn't see anything Dietrich-related when I searched the museum's site.
• EDIT: See where Marlene Dietrich apparently lived when she arrived to [now West] Hollywood here.
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Marlene Dietrich News Bytes

• Yorkshire Post reviews the Stephen Joseph Theatre revival of Pam Gems' play Marlene. Was there a Vivian Hoffman in Dietrich's life? Or does she represent someone (or more than one person)? Or is she a fictitious character altogether?
• Gazette & Herald also reviews the play. Again, it initially runs until June 18, then from August 18 to September 3. You get obtain ticket information here.
• The Stage's review of the play. The reviewer, Kevin Berry, mentions that he spoke to Dietrich for three weeks over 50 years ago. Has he written about this somewhere?
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Marlene Dietrich News Bytes

• A photo of Dietrich at the Orly airport in Paris on September 16, 1970.
• Artist Dal Ray Williams wants a grant to continue his Queer Academy exhibit, with the hopes of featuring Dietrich.
• Read a quote at Life.com from a 1933 letter to Movie Classic magazine that indicates the resistance of some toward women in pants.
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Marlene Dietrich News Bytes

• The late Pam Gems' play, Marlene, is running now until June 18 and then August 24 through September 3 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. See this site and this site for more details.
• The Criterion Collection has made Knight Without Armour available to Hulu Plus subscribers. I consider this an auspicious sign that Criterion will package this film for DVD release. So far, Criterion has released The Scarlet Empress and a Josef von Sternberg silent film collection in DVD format. If you get a "blocked" message on the Hulu site, please let me know. I want to know whether the site is less restricted; I never had direct access to it when I lived in Bulgaria.
• The Women Men Yearn For (a.k.a. The Woman One Longs For; Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt) will screen at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival on Saturday, July 16 at 8:30pm. Buy tickets here.
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