Ernst Lubitsch is struggling with "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" in a valiant attempt to recover from "Angel," which was not regarded too highly by critics or public^ While "Bluebeard" is having its difficulties, mostly from the common head cold. Lu-bitch is making known his gratitude it has Claudette Colbert and Cooper in it instead of Marlene Dietrich.
Miss Dietrich, it now appears, was one of the great problems of the Lubitsch life., He tried for-weeks to get the actress to conform to his direction, but she remembered the way Josef von Sternberg used to ect her and she resolved all scenes into her conception of-the von Sternberg technique. After a few weeks of it Lubitsch gave up and permitted her to walk through the scenes as she desired.
"Bluebeard" should have a. different result. There is the memory of Ina Claire in the stage version in 1921 and the film edition of 1923, with Gloria Swanson, to inspire everybody.
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