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Paltrow's Post-Apple Plans
Gwyneth Paltrow isn't planning on ditching her star status for soccer momhood just yet.
The new mother has signed on to portray legendary screen siren Marlene Dietrich in a DreamWorks film adapted from a memoir penned by the actor's daughter, Maria Riva.
Paltrow will produce the film with partners David Nicksay and Jess Money. Money will also pen the script, the studio said Thursday.
No timetable has been set for the film, seeing as Paltrow's latest project, daughter Apple, is currently occupying the bulk of the Oscar winner's time.
Paltrow is taking a break from her career to spend time raising Apple with her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin.
In the meantime, Dietrich's alluring legacy can wait a little longer to be revived on the big screen.
The German film star wowed the world with her arresting performance in 1930's The Blue Angel, in which she portrayed a Berlin nightclub singer.
She went on to conquer Hollywood with a string of starring roles pre-WWII, but she saw her career turn cold when war broke out in Europe.
Despite Hitler's efforts to woo Dietrich home to serve as the face of the Third Reich, she spent the war fighting the Nazi movement--stumping for war bonds and performing at the front for Allied troops.
"By rights, she could have returned [to Germany] because Hollywood had turned on her," her grandson, Peter Riva, told Daily Variety. "But she felt moral indignation for what the Nazis were proposing, and she spent the entire war doing everything she could to fight against them."
Riva feels that Paltrow is a good choice to portray his late grandmother.
"She has the stillness required in an aristocrat and the ability to plumb the depths of character without too much emotion, which was Marlene's trademark," Riva said.
"And while Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald taught Marlene to maximize her limited vocal range, Gwyneth is a much better singer. She'll just have to sultry up her voice a bit."
Dietrich's last big-screen appearance was a turn in the 1979 David Bowie film Just a Gigolo. She died in Paris in 1992.
Paltrow's last two films, Sylvia and View from the Top, have bombed at the box office. She'll next be seen opposite Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, opening Sept. 17.
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