Thursday, August 3, 2017

For our pick of YT Vid of the Week for the 2nd wk of Aug.2017 - we chose Mr. Jadedtom's Video clip from Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper famous movie "Desire"(1936).

          For this second week of Aug. 2017, we chose a fabulous film clip from the famous movie "Desire" uploaded by new to us - mini video producer - Mr. Jadedtom. It was uploaded on Sept. 27 - 2016 and it's titled "Marlena Dietrich sings 'Awake in a Dream' from 'Desire' (1936)".
        The three-minute movie clip - encapsulates Marlena Dietrich's beauty, charm and a superbly sensuous manner of delivering a song without having any special vocal qualities. In addition - her acting and the presence in front of the movie camera - both emphasize her mastery in knowing how to use the movie camera to her best advantage. 
       The same could be said about an enormously handsome Gary Cooper - except he doesn't sing in this scene - but his movie screen presence and chemistry with Marlena - are both - truly amazing - one could watch those two on the silver screen for a very long time.
       Marlena Dietrich's private life was a subject of many gossips which were exaggerated by various movie studios - for additional publicity. Her private life as a mega star was the subject of her daughter's Maria Siebert Riva's many scandalous exposes - all done after her mother was dead. Maria Riva - herself - on the other hand - other than having a great luck of being a beautiful woman and an only child of a world-famous movie legend - had no other special talents. 
         Certainly - as an only offspring of a global celebrity whose fame lasted for a very long time - Maria Riva had access to lots of "information" which was marketable. Needless to say - Maria Rivas has experienced many extra "perks" connected with her position - however - with that kind of an awesome "territory" also come many disadvantages - as well.
        Marlena Dietrich was heavily promoted by the studios as - at first - "having the most beautiful legs in the world" - I wonder how they measured that. After her daughter Maria Riva gave birth to a baby boy at the very young age - Marlena Dietrich was quickly proclaimed "the most beautiful grandma in the world."
        In this spot of our weekly column we - usually give our audience some "clips" of the important events taking place in Chicago - in a "nutshell" - version. This weekend starting on Thurs. Aug. 03 - 17 - the huge, summer event of a truly gargantuan size - a long festival of rock music - "Lollapalooza" - outdoors - in a lush and enormous - Grant Park - opened - to a stormy night on Thurs. evening; they had to evacuate the wet and unhappy crowds. Friday night also rained but not that much. The tickets went for tons of money. If you gave our editorial staff including yours truly - even a large sum of money - we would not go this "spectacle" of drinking, screaming and "not so discreet" - use of various kinds of semi-legal substances in addition to "rivers" of alcohol being consumed.            Several hundred young people had to be sent to the emergency rooms of nearby hospitals. In addition - several dozens of people were arrested for "disorderly conduct" while the pickpockets stole many I-phones - most of which were recovered but the main thief was let go - since  the typical Chicago's - rich liberal leftists - "the bleeding hearts" - the rich and phony Liberals/Socialists - effectively muzzle the police so they can't enforce the laws -  the way they are legislated - but nobody is being negative or anything like that - mind you.
        Enjoy the clip - the month of August will end quickly, and the gorgeous fall will be here. Don't forget to click here next week to check our choice for the YT Video of the Week for next week!
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