 SPOILER: To perfect her disguise as the "Cockney Woman", director  Billy Wilder (qv) did a series of screen tests of  Marlene Dietrich (qv). The first attempt almost ended the idea  when, after making up Dietrich in wigs, contact lenses, false  eyelashes, false teeth and shoulder pads, Wilder commented that she  looked less like a Cockney woman on screen and more like  "George C. Scott (qv) in drag".