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January 07, 2012

Blonde Venus Ambition

When I googled images for "Marlene Dietrich" in search of a pic to use for a potential upcoming blog post I came across this publicity still from the 1932 flim Blonde Venus. Upon first glance I knew I had seen this look referenced in popular culture before, but where?...

This is interesting in that Madonna is the pop culture queen and her video for Deeper and Deeper is actually an homage to the father of pop culture, Andy Warhol (this is blantantly obvious to Warhol fans). So now I'm scratching my head trying to figure out the Warhol tie to Dietrich.

Posted by Desperate Artist at 08:13 PM in Film, Music | Permalink

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