I always refer to Marlene Dietrich as "my first movie star." I discovered her sometime around the age of 12 when the local PBS station showed a week of her movies in the afternoon one summer. I went nutso for her.
Here's a fun compilation of Dietrich clips:
Today is the 30th birthday of my opera Ladies' Voices. I think of it as my Opus One. I wrote about Ladies' Voices in the context of a...
Last week I sent out the big dance sequence from the movie of Sweet Charity. The lead female dancer was Suzanne Charny. She was damn...
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