(Michael Wood's article appeared in The London Review of Books, 12/17.) Ihad​ misremembered The Scarlet Empress (1934), one of the thirteen Marlene Dietrich movies currently showing at the BFI. Or rather, I remembered vividly its latter stages, when Dietrich, playing the future Catherine the Great, rides her horse up the steps of a palace dressed as a Cossack […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56PM on December 19, 2020