See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have

"See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" is a song written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollander and performed by Marlene Dietrich in the film, Destry Rides Again (1939).[1][2]

Her winking performance was a parody of her vampish roles in earlier fims such as The Blue Angel (1930) and Blonde Venus (1932).[3] The song became a standard part of her repertoire, second only to "Lili Marlene".

References

  1. ^ Gerd Gemünden, Mary R. Desjardins (2007-02-28), Dietrich icon, p. 81, ISBN 9780822338192, http://books.google.com/?id=BKgz4sa75KAC&pg=PA81 
  2. ^ John Shipman Springer (1966), All talking! all singing! all dancing!: a pictorial history of the movie musical, p. 249 
  3. ^ Nigel Ryan (28 June - 4 July 2001), The shadows, Al-Ahram Weekly, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/540/cu1.htm