Wednesday 10 January 2007

Marlene Dietrich's earring found under rollercoaster

Workman draining a lake under a Blackpool roller-coaster have found an earring lost by Marlene Dietrich 73 years ago.

The pearl earring fell off as she took a ride on the Big Dipper at the resort's Pleasure Beach in 1934 when she was being shown around the fun park as a VIP by its chairman Leonard Thompson.
After she realised the earring was missing, Marlene wrote to Mr Thompson asking for a search to be made but it remained lost until workmen drained water under the Big Dipper, still in operation, in readiness for a new ride called Infusion.

A Pleasure Beach spokesman said: "It appears to have withstood the test of time quite well" and added it was "of sentimental value" to Marlene, who died in 1992 aged 90.
Also found by the contractors were a glass eye, a toupee, three dolls, a bra, hats, scarves and £85 in small change.

Surely they didn't belong to Marlene (c:=