Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from Paramount to make her first color film "The Garden of Allah" (1936) for independent producer David O. Selznick, for which she received $200,000, and to Britain for Alexander Korda's production, "Knight Without Armour" (1937), at a salary of $450,000, which made her one of the best paid film stars of the time. While both films performed decently at the box office, her vehicles were costly to produce and her public popularity had declined. By this time, Dietrich placed 126th in box office rankings, and American film exhibitors proclaimed her "box office poison" in May 1938, a distinction she shared with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Dolores del Río and Fred Astaire among others.