BAMcinématek Presents: Double Feature: The Flame of New Orleans and Belle of the Nineties

Part of the BAMcinématek series New Orleans on Film

The Flame of New Orleans

Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6, 9pm

Directed by Rene Clair
With Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot

(1941) 79min, 35mm

The first of four films French innovator Rene Clair made during his World War II exile in the United States, Flame of New Orleans stars Marlene Dietrich as a notorious French adventuress posing as a noble women in the Big Easy. 

With

Belle of the Nineties 

Directed by Leo McCarey
With Mae West, Roger Pryor

(1934) 73min, 35mm

“I'm wild about you.” “Some of the wildest men make the best pets.” A beauty queen (West) on the sports circuit forced to flee an admiring prizefighter and ends up in New Orleans, where she becomes the toast of the town and the object of a sleazy club owner’s affections.