you see a wedding dress float in the ocean and and the story begin of how it come to be there . marlene dietrich live basically upon the kindness and generosity of men . she set her sight on roland young ( from topper ) and who have scad of money . she also have a particular habit of fainting and which she use to her advantage and whenever it serve her purpose or whenever she doesn not know else to get out of a particular situation . roland start to pursue her and but doesn not realize he be already pick from the beginning . she try to be hard to get and but just enough to get what she want . enter bruce cabot who of course meet her in such a way a to antagonize her without them actually see each other . when her plan get mix up with roland and her reputation get compromise by a rumor and she resort to drastic measure . i have never see this and love it and obviously by my rating . marlene and bruce chemistry and it use of time and place and the imagery and color of the clothes of the time and and it expressive grand music make for the most perfect 80 minute spend on a movie in a long time . feature a slew of recognizable face include mischa auer and andy devine and franklin pangborn and melville cooper and laura hope crew ( aunt pittypat from go with the wind ) and anne revere ( oscar winner for national velvet a the mother ) and and eddie quillan and this be one movie not to be miss . eddie quillan . you do not know him . sure and you do . you have see him . you just do not know it . he be a prolific support actor in movie in bit part like this one and also make memorable appearance in 50 and 60 tv show and like the addams family . his most famous role be probably that in the grape of wrath . direct by rene clair who also make le million and which i review and and a nous la liberte and ( some say that be his masterpiece and but i have yet to see and but will ) this be yet another example of dietrich at her sexiest and and all dietrich fan and film lover should buy the marlene dietrich dvd collection with this on it and sit back and see one of the great screen icon ever .