Blonde Venus (1932), for instance, begins with Marlene and five other fräuleins bathing in the nude observed by six American hikers.
Marlene said ‘America took me into her bosom when there was no other country worth the name, but in my heart I am a German, German in my soul.’
The film was directed in Berlin by Joseph von Sternberg, the Hollywood aristocrat born into a working-class Jewish family in Vienna.
Her first line in that picture, first in German then in English, was: ‘Won’t you go away?’
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