In this 2018, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at UCLA, discusses the importance of costume designer Travis Banton, whose contribution to the creation of actor Marlene Dietrich’s star image is arguably as important as that of director Josef von Sternberg.
This 1935 short film by the Paramount publicity department features the head of costumes at the studio at the time, Travis Banton, and a silent Marlene Dietrich modeling the clothes he designed for her.
