Whether they play a central role in the plot, serve the construction of a character or speak of their time, these gems shine brightly in six masterpieces of cinema.
There is this scene, brilliant and unusual, where Marlene Dietrich, cigarette in her dressing room, repairs a bracelet. She is using a tiny, surgical tool - a pair of scissors? The actress plays the singer of the magazine Charlotte Inwood, character in Alfred Hitchcock's Great Alibi , suspected of having murdered her husband. The police should come and question him soon. From a safe distance and wary, his dresser Doris (young Jane Wyman) watches him. She does not wear any jewelry. "Because there is nothing around Marlene," explains Nicole Foucher, fashion and cinema lecturer.Jane must not shine, nor encroach on her territory. This overload of jewels is the little extra reserved for stars. Marlene is covered in it. She touches without restraint her bracelets, her rings, her necklaces,
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