ART: Hollywood Misogynist

The biggest thing in Martin Kosleck's life was, up to last month, the time he acted in a play in Berlin with Marlene Dietrich. Some time after Miss Dietrich learned English and migrated to Hollywood, emotional young Kosleck also taught himself English (on a phonograph) and went to Hollywood. As an actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught...

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