Marlene Dietrich 'Marlene Dietrich At The Cafe De Paris, London' 33⅓ 10" 1954 Album

On 21st June 1954 Marlene Dietrich opened at The Cafe De Paris in London, the first night she was introduced by her friend Noël Coward, subsequent nights the introduction was by Alec Guiness, Robert Morley, Michael Redgrave, Paul Schofield, Richard Todd amongst others.
Marlene appeared wearing a fur wrap and a dress studded in rhinestones and described as a masterpiece of illusion, transparent enough to make you think you were seeing everything and opaque enough to make you realise you weren't.

John Carpenter of the Evening News reviewed the show thus:
"For forty minutes she held us in sheer rapture. Through 'La Vie En Rose' and the more strident 'Boys In The Backroom' to the deep throated insinuation of 'Look Me Over Closely' on to 'I'm The Laziest Girl In Town' (during which she sensuously embraced the microphone) and finally, inevitability to 'Falling In Love Again' from The Blue Angel. At the end of each number she allowed her fur to slip from her shoulders, bowed very low and then swept to the side of the stage and leant back on the balustrade of the staircase, head up and body tense to allow the applause to wash over her like a wave. Cheers, cries of 'Encore' followed her up the staircase when she made her last exit. A perfect artiste, she left when she still seemed to have far more to give, and when we, her audience, deliriously exhausted, still longed for more. She stopped for a moment at the top of the staircase, the fur wrap discarded, all defences down, looking very young and very happy as she savoured the crescendo of appause. Then she was gone. Only The magic remained.