The Front Row: Marlene Dietrich in "Dishonored"

The rise of the great movie stars is almost always a story of collaboration with great directors. The film career of Marlene Dietrich burst into enduring prominence in 1930, with Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel," and they made six more films together, including "Dishonored" (which I discuss in this clip), from 1931, in which Dietrich's onscreen persona became refined to a degree of breathtaking precision, and expanded to a historical--even a philosophical--scope.