Marlene Dietrich

How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades

2013-02-24 00:00:00

The Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about...

Oscar presenter Marlene Dietrich

2013-02-05 00:33:36

Stephen Colbert grills Lawrence Wright with Scientology-speak

2013-02-07 07:24:00

Lawrence Wright, the author of "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" appeared on "The Colbert Report" Thursday night to talk about his book. But before he could get there, Stephen Colbert bgean grilling the Pulitzer Prize...

'Going Clear' takes on Scientology's celebrity fixation

2013-01-14 00:00:00

Who'd have thought a history of a religion would offer so many guilty pleasures? Lawrence Wright's enthralling account of Scientology's rise, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," brims with celebrity scandal. To anyone who gets...

Premiere of Oklahoma! in new widescreen format

2012-11-29 00:54:46

Review: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' lacks a certain ring

2012-12-12 14:41:00

From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around." Likewise, it would have been better all around if Peter Jackson's "Lord of...

Lingerie: Legacy in lace

2012-09-02 00:00:00

The image is one of the most provocative in cinematic history: Elizabeth Taylor stretched catlike on a brass bed wearing nothing but a white slip and high heels. Taylor's wardrobe for the 1958 classic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" might have been scandalous...

Fall fashion: Tough love

2012-09-02 00:00:00

Forget the Gossip Girls, Joan Holloway, Bettie Page and those other retro chicks. There is a new feminine ideal this fall, and she kicks butt. If the last five years have been dominated by the preening and pristine women of "Mad Men," we are now...

Clarice Lispector: Four novels form a picture of Brazil novelist

2012-05-27 00:00:00

For a handful of people, Clarice Lispector's "A Breath of Life" being published in English for the first time is very good news. Sadly, that handful is fairly small. Lispector, an extraordinarily gifted writer who revolutionized Brazilian letters, was...

PASSINGS: Richard F. 'Dick' Stolz, J. Michael Riva

2012-06-15 00:00:00

Richard F. 'Dick' Stolz Respected CIA operative, official Richard F. "Dick" Stolz, 86, who joined the CIA in 1950 and became one of the agency's most respected operatives, died Saturday at a hospital in Williamsburg, Va., of complications from a fall,...

Romantic getaways

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Berlin: Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the...

Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer

2012-05-04 00:00:00

Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...

The black Christian Dior gown Marlene Dietrich wore to present the foreign-language Oscar in 1951 set the actress apart from the mostly pastel-wearing crowd. A sexy bow at the hip and slit that showed a lot of leg helped revive her career, and cemented Dior's place in Hollywood.

2013-02-22 16:34:00

Marlene Dietrich, 1951

2013-02-22 00:00:00

Marlene Dietrich was a seductive actress and entertainer whose sultry voice and distinctive face graced motion picture screens during Hollywood's most glamorous decades. | Read more See more stars on the Hollywood Star Walk, the Los Angeles Times' virtual tour of the streets of Hollywood.

2012-07-09 00:00:00