Mirrors #24

A couple of great ones from Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, with John Halliday as third lead, and Akim Tamiroff in one scene as a suspicious police inspector. A heist movie, and I love heist movies! Dietrich plays a jewel thief, who scores HUGE, stealing a string of pearls from right under the nose of the jeweler, and then flees across France and Spain, trying to escape detection. Along the way, she meets a bumbling charming earnest American (Cooper), having the first solo vacation of his whole American life. This is Dietrich’s first film post her collaboration with Josef von Sternberg. Her costumes are breathtaking. The great Travis Banton designed her wardrobe! He was responsible for so many iconic looks, and he made most of Carole Lombard’s gowns.
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