Josef von Sternberg - The Man Who Made Dietrich 02/03

Documentary from 1994 about Josef von Sternberg. With lots of interviews with the man himself (archive footage, of course), Maria Riva, Nicholas von Sternberg, Peter Bogdanovich and others.

[@XX-gy7ue]

THEIR COLLABORATION WAS BEYOND BRILLIANT AND SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN !! THE MOVIES ARE STUNNING !!

[@ryanbrailey-tucker4935]

AMEN...a match made in heaven. Pure cinematic art

[@jaymesguy239]

For movie stars like Marlene, it was based on a few key things: good bones, good lighting from a good cinematographer, and good make-up and hairdressing.

[@prycerobertson4695]

Gotta love Maria Riva.

[@TheTibmeister]

Maria went through it all with both von Sternberg and Dietrich. Then just Dietrich. She is a highly intelligent woman and a miraculous survivor

[@Spook2431NYC]

Truer words never spoken! God Bless Marie for speaking truth to myth & hopefully helping others 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️🍾🥂

[@MarleneXtreme2]

Wonderful Documentary ! von Sternberg and Marlene, a perfect combination ! Thanks for posting :-)

[@hebneh]

I've read Kevin Brownlow's description of the lighting demonstration, and it's great to finally see it happening nearly 50 years after first reading it.

[@Rudipolt]

THANKS for posting Maria, Aloha from Hawaii

[@carolhodson6353]

She had that mystical way with men they would stare at her and be in her spell.

[@ryanbrailey-tucker4935]

Maria's book on her mother....WOW...it was mammouth and I couldnt put it down....its was edge or your seat reading....addictive. I could read it over and over.

[@sxnico]

I love Maria RIva.

[@clarionstreet]

Tallaluah: Wonderful documentary of the great director and his great star-both of whom are ensnared in a shared tragedy, personally and artistically. If Sternberg never produced a great movie after Dietrich, neither did she (although I do think the Saga of Anatahan redeems the last part of his career). Thanks so much for posting parts 2 and 3. What a shame you cannot provide part 1.

[@theaterdreamer]

Respectfully, I disagree. Marlene made several wonderful films after Blue Angel, though clearly they were not star vehicles for HER; she appeared as a member of an ensemble cast. But Judgment at Nuremberg, Touch of Evil and Witness for the Prosecution are three of the great films of the late 50s and early 60s.

[@clarionstreet]

True, true, I agree. All fine films with excellent performances. But I would suggest Destry Rides Again, Foreign Affair, and Stage Fright are equally first rate films in which Dietrich IS a principal player. My point was that the unique chemistry with regards to star, director, AND vehicle itself didn't approach the heights of say Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, Morocco, etc. "Shared Tragedy" was probably too histrionic an expression. They both recovered from the breakup in their own ways, she no doubt more thoroughly than he.

[@carolhodson6353]

Marlene was a very beautiful looking lady.

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

I'm surprised this wasn't called "The Man Who Made Marlene" It roles off the tongue better.

[@kenrawley9025]

Her life is as amazing as her mothers, notably her not being destroyed by her mother...

[@kllwc7772]

Ken Rawley Beautifully pointed out& very true..

[@bgjandm]

My Father Eddie Garson was a ventriloquist who toured with Marlene for 6 years in Australia. Does anyone have info or video of him doing his act to warm the crowd for her? Eddie has passed away so anything would be appreciated!!

[@alanaronald244]

Sorry for your loss: hoping you will find vids and/or pics of your dad.

[@Tomfrost1997]

WONDERFUL JO WONDERFUL MARLENE THEIR FILMMAKING TOGETHER WAS JUST MAGICAL DISHONORED WAS MY FAVORITE

[@monapause8108]

where is part 1?

[@carloshugogeib7961]

Inspite everything that can bê Said she was a great Diva.

[@anastasia10017]

i think arrogance was a desirable quality in those days. I have seen it in many older people of pre WWII generations.

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

That’s interesting

[@hankrogers8431]

What happened to part 1?

[@maxlinder5262]

WHERE IS PART ..ONE...?????????????????????

[@keithrichardsgirl]

Please repost part one~!

[@tallulahhula01]

I wish I could. KZbin kept deleting it. 😕

[@teeniebeenie8774]

it took more thanone man to change my name to shanghi lilly

[@marcelorocha4147]

The white flower of China!

[@janlovesmany6058]

Sad life really..

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

All celebrities have sad lives. Once you are public property, you are chained to an image and you have to be a psychopath to thrive (Taylor Swift etc)

[@Rudipolt]

Aloha from Hawaii

[@lorenzosantangeli4356]

who is the guy at around minute 3.30?

[@moriginal8360]

Peter Bogdanovich

[@wizestwizard]

I am Josef Von Sternbergs late great great nephew, and I am selling his Movado timepiece. It has his initials engraved on it, if anyone knows anyone interested in such things... it is in very good condition. I have other things of his, pictures, envelopes he mailed to my mother as proof.

[@elisabedfordshire4180]

Really???

[@annamelanie5151]

Mike Farina I if you are his late nephew, that means you are dead

[@KatharinaK117]

Anna Melanie lol 😂

[@didivalenti4221]

@@annamelanie5151 Von Sternberg's son was born in 1951 and he's still alive so the nephew if there is one probably is alive either.

[@ThomasDeLello]

Assignations...? [9:25] an appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers. "his an older woman"

[@logicalcorrelation]

uh, where's part one?

[@tallulahhula01]

+logicalcorrelation KZbin keeps deleting it. Sorry.

[@buh2001j]

Could you post it to vimeo and add the link in the description here?

[@KatharinaK117]

Tallulah Hula unbelievable!

[@Rudipolt]

Aloha

[@spinandmarty]

Nonsense. Nobody else “made” Dietrich. She made herself.

[@sabine4759]

She WAS herself and slept with men who had connections! Especially with von Sternberg who brought her to Hollywood and created a star!

[@GFSLombardo]

Maria Riva is an accomplished woman. She can discuss any topic from art, history, literature and culture to politics and the importance of the North Atlantic Alliance- But all anyone really cares about is: "what was your mother really like"? So it goes...

[@KatharinaK117]

Gary L Maria Riva is just wow. And more beautiful than her perverted mother.

[@Lee-xs9ee]

Yeah it must kill her those royalty checks come in. She so wanted to be...what exactly? A diplomat?

[@gauravw6947]

@@KatharinaK117 The way you viciously rant on every Marlene video shows how perverted you are...

[@KatharinaK117]

@@gauravw6947 😂😂😂yea sure GAUrav! Funny, how you follow me on every vid regarding her YOU say? Lmao. Nice try, saying Im perverted. Lmao. I REBUKE YOU IN TGE THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST ! The perverts lie in hellyweird! GO get them...lol..but oh wait: I'm sure, YOU adore perverts. Idiot!

[@KatharinaK117]

@@gauravw6947 hahaha! 😂😂Coming from a self proclaimed TROLL! As you are ..just shut up, FAKE n go get her! Your hellyweird BITCH! IDK ..wht fakes as you r saying...bye-bye. 😂😂😂Tht bitch ...who bowed down to Hellyweird cabale ! Ewww! Awful. Go eat her immorality! Bi-sexual affairs etc...her daughter is damn right! Disgusting person she was. Ewww!

[@dxmxo9427]

Maria comes across as jealous of her mother.

[@britannia5370]

Which she was and is, ugly old crow

[@kllwc7772]

Hardly “ jealous “ considering what type of a mother she was.The facts of the true lives of icons etc...Can be difficult for fans who put such icons on pedestals that they continue to build.MD was more than just an icon / actress / mother / singer .As a mother she left a LOT to be desired....

[@correioanacabral]

I dont agree. That is a woman with great clarity and who knows her own mind. Speaking of facts does not make you jealous. What is more, Maria was abused by a woman and her mother knew about it and chose to ignore it. I would certainly feel some kind of way about that crap.

[@kllwc7772]

Ana Cabral Exactly!! The facts ARE important and to ignore them is dangerous.Icons / idols / famous people are flawed despite their ‘ obvious’ talent.We must learn to look BEYOND the fame of famous people....

[@akrenwinkle]

I don't know if anyone over 12 should say anything tantamount to "you're just jealous." (On these boards, it's usually written "your just jealous."

[@user-fb5wv7qp7f]

Какая стойкая нелюбовь к матери у этой женщины...она всячески старается уменьшить значение Марлен,как актрисы,личности и матери.И ничего у неё не выходит! Марлен - выдающая актриса и женщина,а дочь - завистливая неудачница,которая известна только,как автор скандальной книги.

[@kittyviveen9448]

every sentence she says about her mother is full off hate. Look at that degrading book she wrote about her. Very nice, in the first chapter writing about how the appartement she lived in during her final years smelled off alcohol and urine. Now, that's class for you. Why the hell did she circle around her the rest off her life, and after her death? Let me guess - money? She could have left at 18, told her she was awfull and never made an effort to see her again. She didn't. Well, that says enough.

[@tallulahhula01]

I think their relationship was too complex as to say, she should have left at 18. Of course that seems "easy" to do, but then, we must remember that you couldn't escape Marlene Dietrich that easily. Especially not when you're her daughter. True, Maria Riva and her sons lived well off her mother all their life. Marlene was just human, with a very unique personality. but she definitely wasn't perfect. Are you allowed to write about this? I guess when you dealt with it for many years you feel entitled to do so. To show the real character, personality behind the image. I personally like her book, even if it tells some not so pleasant details about Marlene and her life. You must, whatever you read, always take with a grain of salt. We weren't there.... we don't know what happened. How can we say that she is lying? We can't.

[@kittyviveen9448]

Even Marlene Dietrich was a mother, like every mother. You have good and bad and verything in between. But don't try to make money out of one of your parants when they weren't perfect - as Dietrich for sure wasn't. You leave, get your own life and don't kick someone who is old and miserable as she was in her last year, just to make some money. And include all those detals in it - that is abussive. Just like her mother may have been at some point in her life. No, no respect for Maria Rive on my part.

[@britannia5370]

You are so very right, thanks for your comment, most people here admire her for being a trashy, selfish, disloyal bitch

[@mdarcy886]

Un livre sans intérêt. Marlene mérite mieux. Pauvre Maria Riva.