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updated: 27/05/2002

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blackface: Golden Earrings

Marlene Dietrich adopted a darker look to play Lydia, a Romany, in this 1947 movie. For some reason, she seemed to play characters of every nationality except German in the mid/late-1940s: perhaps the strangest though was the blonde Iraqi in Kismet.

Wally Westmore was the makeup artist on the movie.