Plagued by financial trouble throughout the 30's, Paramount studio depended on its stars more than before to give its picture a more expensive and lavish look. The better movies were the successful star-director partnerships such as between Joseph Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich that lasted couple of years after seven movies. The Viennese born director was unquestionably one of the cinema's finest and most elaborate stylists. He was considered a modernist and achieved in his work a kind of mysterious splendor, a lushly decadent sensuality mingled with spiritual transcendence for his wonderfully egocentric characters. His films are extremely rich in metaphors, in symbolisms and in subconscious messages and signs. Its' rare to understand the full meaning of his art in one viewing: He was able to allude the most highly eroticized parts of Dietrich's body such as her legs and deals with themes, such as sexuality , fetishism, the erotic, love, passion, betrayal and manipulation,......
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