“The legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”

—  Marlene Dietrich

Source: Speaking with publicist Peter Rogers, circa 1969, as quoted in The Blackglama Story (1979) by Rogers, reproduced in "At Last! The story behind the legends... and the war of the minks; Marlene Dietrich" https://www.mediafire.com/view/shxgxgwhaj6fk9h by Ricki Fulman, New York Daily News (December 9, 1979), p. 179

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