"Catherine the Great" televised

[Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]]

For my money, if one's to throw any pretensions of historical accuracy
to the wind and watch a film on Catherine the Great that's great fun (if
just a tad campy in places), I'd put my money on Josef von Sternberg's
"The Scarlet Empress" (1934) with Marlene Dietrich, though I certainly
wouldn't show it to students who couldn't begin to put the film's
peccadillos in their appropriate context.

Tony Vanchu

Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
Director, JSC Language Education Center
TechTrans International, Inc.
NASA Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX
Phone:  (281) 483-0644
Fax:  (281) 483-4050

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