Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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If I didn't know Marlene Dietrich, the actress, quite well, I would suppose by seeing her on the screen that she arose each day at noon in time to have a milk bath, a rub-down with Chanel No. 5, and then to dash into her newest Paris gown and hat, and be off to some fabulous smart place for lunch. She'd return home to confer with a secretary over endless calls, open cards from endless boxes of flowers, perhaps recline on a white mink spread over a satin longue, wearing a devastating red chiffon negligee with ostrich trimming. And by six she'd be having a massage to keep her hips in proportion as she listened to languid music. By cocktail hour she'd be wearing another ravishing gown to greet at least a dozen handsome men awaiting her favor. She'd go out to dine wearing a king's ransom in jewels, and she'd dance and come home with a retinue of men, each begging her favor. And life would go on and on with new brilliance and glamourous events in endless succession. But the Marlene I know is very different. She has never been able to sleep late in the morning. She wishes she could, but she has so much to do that with the dawn she is up. She never has time to indulge in milk baths. They sound ridiculous. She takes a brisk shower and dresses quickly and starts her day which she has scheduled the night before. She has never had a massage, nor a beauty treatment, as she doesn't have the time. And since she never hires a housekeeper she has to go shopping for food when living in an apartment or a house. If not — and she has been living in hotels for the last few years — she has countless other errands. She loves to go shopping in department stores. In New York she has been able to shop quietly, for when you dress quietly few people notice you. If she should get all dressed up, wearing furs and jewels, well that's asking for attention. She doesn't . . . except here in London. Indeed, during her visit Marlene tied up store traffic in London's biggest department store. The kind manager had finally out of sheer desperation, escorted her to the sanctity of his office, where he explained, "Anything you might want we'll bring in here to you." Miss Dietrich says the most common question she is asked is how to be glamorous. "I've devoted a lot of thought to the answer for a long time," she said, "but I still don't know it. Real glamour has something to do with authority, that's all I know." For myself, I think the real spirit and confidence of a person who has something exceptional in life gives that air, gives a woman a glamour that no makeup box or costume can manufacture. It isn't by means of a formula that Marlene decides what she wants from life. She thinks that most people become so self-centered in their objective just what they want to be that they end by living only for themselves. They have no one to think of but themselves and no inner radiance can shine from a selfcentered miserable person. Glamour is not a phony charm, according to Marlene. Even if you are an actress, she says, you can't pretend to listen with great interest to another's plans or conversation while you mentally arrange your own plans. Stimulation of your own mind through social discussion, music, art, is more beneficial than time spent in a beauty parlor, for a woman with an active mind is exciting. There's nothing a man likes better than explaining things that interest him to an attentive listener. Once you have a man as your confidant, he finds you the most glamourous woman in the world — which explains a man's rapture over, sometimes, a woman of plain physical charm. You hear, "What does he see in her?" Marlene's career is only a part of her life. She always decides what to do that will make everybody happy; for in their happiness she finds her own. Those may not sound like potent words, but anyone who thinks them over and gives them a try, will experience the full benefit of them. It makes one vital and alive. When Marlene's daughter, Maria, was a baby of three, she appeared with her in one of Marlene's first pictures at Paramount. Marlene was far more delighted with her childish beauty and the fun of having her in a picture, than she was about herself. Maria was always such a lovely child and now she is a lovely woman with two babies to look after. Marlene often takes care of them so her daughter can have a free afternoon or evening. Helping others and giving happiness to people is characteristic of her and was her main incentive for joining the USO. Miss Dietrich, you remember, was Hitler's No. 1 Film Objective and through Goebbels he long campaigned for her return to Germany. But Marlene's loyalty to the United States never wavered.