Dietrich's final collaboration with Josef von Sternberg, The Devil is a Woman, is a silly, rather annoying film but, like all their previous work together, it's really quite amazing to look at. Dietrich flits about in a glittering whirlwind of Travis Banton's sublimely excessive costumes, and hair and maquillage are a tortured perfection; it's here that the famous eyebrows attain their greatest altitude.
Dietrich's "reveal":
Dietrich in other scenes from the film:
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Screen captures from Mitteleuropa.
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