Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Show Business: Marlene Rides Again
For her first TV appearance this Saturday, Marlene Dietrich has been paid more, minute for minute, than any other star in television history, something in excess of $250,000. If she had been Cleopatra emerging from a 90-oar barge in the pollution of the Hudson, with 100 eunuchs throwing rose petals in her path, the executives at CBS would not have offered more—or been more excited at meeting her. Still, Dietrich is not happy. Not happy at all.
"They work you to death," she complains, making a mighty scowl in the comfort of her Park Avenue apartment.
"CBS is the ruler of us all....
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