When I read Ernst Lubitsch’s screenplay for Desire, I was horrified. The film was to begin with a close-up of my legs. My legs, always my legs! Yet for me they have only one purpose, they make it possible for me to walk. I didn’t want so much fuss made over my legs. But Mae West advised me to take another view of the matter and to let the producers have their way. She always had a thousand good reasons for her opinion, and I listened to her.
- Marlene Dietrich on Mae West
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