The famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and his wife (the actress Dolly Haas) once accompanied Marlene Dietrich to see Morocco (1930) at the Museum of Modem Art. Enthralled by Dietrich's performance, Hirschfeld asked her, "Marlene, how did you get that wonderful expression at the end when you kick your shoes off and make your way into the desert to follow Gary Cooper?" "I did what Joe von Sternberg asked me to," she modestly replied. "I counted from twenty-five backwards!"
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C. Higham, Marlene, p. 108
