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Occupation
  
Actress, singer

Role
  
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Years active
  
1919–1984

Height
  
1.68 m

Website
  
marlene.com

Children
  
Maria Riva

Name
  
Marlene Dietrich


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Full Name
  
Marie Magdalene Dietrich

Born
  
27 December 1901 (
1901-12-27
)
Schoneberg, Brandenburg, Germany

Resting place
  
Stadtischer Friedhof III, Berlin-Schoneberg

Spouse(s)
  
Rudolf Sieber(married 1923–1976)

Relatives
  
John Michael Riva (grandson)Peter Riva (grandson)

Died
  
May 6, 1992, Paris, France

Similar People
  
Greta Garbo, Maria Riva, Edith Piaf, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford

Marlene Dietrich Biography | American Actress | Story OF Life And Success


Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (, [maɐ̯ˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç]; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her unusually long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself.

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In the 1920s in Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international fame and resulted in a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and Desire (1936). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and "exotic" looks, and became one of the highest-paid actresses of the era. Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she still made occasional films after the war, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.

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Dietrich was noted for her humanitarian efforts during the war, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their US citizenship. For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.

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Early life

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Dietrich was born on (1901-12-27)27 December 1901 on Leberstraße 65 in the neighborhood of Rote Insel in Schöneberg, now a district of Berlin. She was the younger of two daughters (her sister Elisabeth was a year older) of Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine (née Felsing) and Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who married in December 1898. Dietrich's mother was from an affluent Berlin family who owned a jewelry and clock making firm. Her father was a police lieutenant who died in 1907. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocratic first lieutenant in the Grenadiers, courted Wilhelmina and married her in 1916, but he died soon afterwards from injuries sustained during the First World War. Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich girls, so Dietrich's surname was never von Losch, as has sometimes been claimed.

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Dietrich's family nicknamed her "Lena" and "Lene" (IPA: [leːnɛ]). Around age 11, she contracted her two first names to form the name "Marlene". Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls' School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from the Victoria-Luise-Schule (today Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin-Wilmersdorf) in 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager. A wrist injury curtailed her dreams of becoming a concert violinist, but by 1922 she had her first job, playing violin in a pit orchestra for silent films at a Berlin cinema. She was fired after only four weeks.

Beginnings

Her earliest professional stage appearances were as a chorus girl on tour with Guido Thielscher's Girl-Kabarett vaudeville-style entertainments, and in Rudolf Nelson revues in Berlin. In 1922, Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impresario Max Reinhardt's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas. She did not attract any special attention at first. She made her film debut playing a bit part in the film The Little Napoleon (1923).

She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of Tragödie der Liebe in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, was born on 13 December 1924.

Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance. It was in musicals and revues such as Broadway, Es Liegt in der Luft, and Zwei Krawatten, however, that she attracted the most attention. By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen, including roles in Café Elektric (1927), Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1928), and Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929).

Breakthrough

In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola Lola, a sexy cabaret singer who caused the downfall of a hitherto respectable schoolmaster (played by Emil Jannings), in the UFA-Paramount co-production of The Blue Angel (1930). Josef von Sternberg directed the film and thereafter took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced Dietrich's signature song "Falling in Love Again", which she recorded for Electrola and later made further recordings in the 1930s for Polydor and Decca Records.

Success in the United States

In 1930, on the strength of The Blue Angel's international success, and with encouragement and promotion from Josef von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, Dietrich moved to the United States under contract to Paramount Pictures. The studio sought to market Dietrich as a German answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Swedish sensation, Greta Garbo. Sternberg welcomed her with gifts, including a green Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The car later appeared in their first US film Morocco.

Dietrich starred in six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount between 1930 and 1935. Sternberg worked effectively with Dietrich to create the image of a glamorous and mysterious femme fatale. He encouraged her to lose weight and coached her intensively as an actress. She willingly followed his sometimes imperious direction in a way that a number of other performers resisted.

In Morocco (1930), Dietrich was again cast as a cabaret singer. The film is best remembered for the sequence in which she performs a song dressed in a man's white tie and kisses another woman, both provocative for the era. The film earned Dietrich her only Academy Award nomination.

Morocco was followed by Dishonored (1931), a major success with Dietrich cast as a Mata Hari-like spy. Shanghai Express (1932), which was dubbed by the critics as "Grand Hotel on wheels", was Sternberg and Dietrich's biggest box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1932. Dietrich and Sternberg again collaborated on the romance Blonde Venus (1932). Dietrich worked without Sternberg for the first time in three years in the romantic drama Song of Songs (1933), playing a naive German peasant, under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. Dietrich and Sternberg's last two films, The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935)- the most stylized of their collaborations- were their lowest-grossing films. Dietrich later remarked that she was at her most beautiful in The Devil Is a Woman.

Sternberg is noted for his exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich to optimum effect. He had a signature use of light and shadow, including the impact of light passed through a veil or slatted blinds (as for example in Shanghai Express). This combined with the scrupulous attention to set design and costumes makes the films they made together among the most visually stylish in cinema history. Critics still vigorously debate how much of the credit belonged to Sternberg and how much to Dietrich, but most would agree that neither consistently reached such heights again after Paramount fired Sternberg and the two ceased working together. The collaboration of one actress and director creating seven films is still unmatched in cinema history.

Dietrich's first film after the end of her partnership with Sternberg was Frank Borzage's Desire (1936), a commercial success that gave Dietrich an opportunity to try her hand at romantic comedy. Her next project, I Loved a Soldier (1936), ended in shambles when the film was scrapped several weeks into production due to script problems, scheduling confusion and the studio's decision to fire the director, Ernst Lubitsch.

"Box office poison"

Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from Paramount to make her first color film The Garden of Allah (1936) for independent producer David O. Selznick, for which she received $200,000, and to Britain for Alexander Korda's production, Knight Without Armour (1937), at a salary of $450,000, which made her one of the best paid film stars. While both films performed respectably at the box office, her vehicles were costly to produce and her public popularity had declined. By this time, Dietrich placed 126th in box office rankings, and American film exhibitors proclaimed her "box office poison" in May 1938, a distinction she shared with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Dolores del Río and Fred Astaire among others.

While she was in London, officials of the Nazi Party approached Dietrich and offered her lucrative contracts, should she agree to return to Germany as a foremost film star in the Third Reich. She refused their offers and applied for US citizenship in 1937. She returned to Paramount to make Angel (1937), another romantic comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch; the film was poorly received, leading Paramount to buy out the remainder of Dietrich's contract.

Revival and later film career

In 1939, with encouragement from Josef von Sternberg, she accepted producer Joe Pasternak's offer to play against type in her first film in two years: that of the cowboy saloon girl, Frenchie, in the western-comedy Destry Rides Again, opposite James Stewart. This was a significantly less well paid role than she had been accustomed to. The bawdy role revived her career and "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have", a song she introduced in the film, became a hit when she recorded it for Decca. She played similar types in Seven Sinners (1940) and The Spoilers (1942) both opposite John Wayne.

While Dietrich never fully regained her former screen success, she continued performing in motion pictures, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder in films that included A Foreign Affair (1948), Stage Fright (1950), Rancho Notorious (1952), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Touch of Evil (1958).

World War II

Dietrich was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. In interviews, Dietrich stated that she had been approached by representatives of the Nazi Party to return to Germany but had turned them down flat. In the late 1930s, Dietrich created a fund with Billy Wilder and several other Germans to help Jews and dissidents escape from Germany. In 1937, her entire salary for Knight Without Armor ($450,000) was put into escrow to help the refugees. In 1939, she became an American citizen and renounced her German citizenship. In December 1941, the U.S. entered World War II, and Dietrich became one of the first celebrities to help sell war bonds. She toured the US from January 1942 to September 1943 (appearing before 250,000 troops on the Pacific Coast leg of her tour alone) and was reported to have sold more war bonds than any other star.

During two extended tours for the USO in 1944 and 1945, she performed for Allied troops in Algeria, Italy, the UK and France, then went into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand"—"out of decency". Wilder later remarked that she was at the front lines more than Eisenhower. Her revue, with Danny Thomas as her opening act for the first tour, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw (a skill she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s) and a pretend "mindreading" act, which Orson Welles, a close friend, had taught her. Dietrich would inform the audience that she could read minds and ask them to concentrate on whatever came into their minds. Then she would walk over to a soldier and earnestly tell him, "Oh, think of something else. I can't possibly talk about that!" American church papers reportedly published stories complaining about this part of Dietrich's act.

In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralize enemy soldiers. Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including "Lili Marleen", a favorite of soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Major General William J. Donovan, head of the OSS, wrote to Dietrich, "I am personally deeply grateful for your generosity in making these recordings for us."

At the war's end in Europe, Dietrich reunited with her sister Elisabeth and her sister's husband and son. They had resided in the German city of Belsen throughout the war years, running a cinema frequented by Nazi officers and officials who oversaw the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dietrich's mother remained in Berlin during the war; her husband moved to a ranch in the San Fernando Valley of California. Dietrich vouched on behalf of her sister and her sister's husband, sheltering them from possible prosecution as Nazi collaborators. Dietrich would later omit the existence of her sister and her sister's son from all accounts of her life, completely disowning them and claiming to be an only child.

Dietrich received the Medal of Freedom in November 1947. She said this was her proudest accomplishment. She was also awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her wartime work.

Stage and cabaret

From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a highly paid cabaret artist, performing live in large theatres in major cities worldwide.

In 1953, Dietrich was offered a then-substantial $30,000 per week to appear live at the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The show was short, consisting only of a few songs associated with her. Her daringly sheer "nude dress"—a heavily beaded evening gown of silk soufflé, which gave the illusion of transparency—designed by Jean Louis, attracted a lot of publicity. This engagement was so successful that she was signed to appear at the Café de Paris in London the following year; her Las Vegas contracts were also renewed.

Dietrich employed Burt Bacharach as her musical arranger starting in the mid-1950s; together they refined her nightclub act into a more ambitious theatrical one-woman show with an expanded repertoire. Her repertoire included songs from her films as well as popular songs of the day. Bacharach's arrangements helped to disguise Dietrich's limited vocal range—she was a contralto—and allowed her to perform her songs to maximum dramatic effect; together, they recorded four albums and several singles between 1957 and 1964. In a TV interview in 1971, she credited Bacharach with giving her the "inspiration" to perform during those years.

Bacharach then felt he needed to devote his full time to songwriting. But she had also come to rely on him in order to perform, and wrote about his leaving in her memoir:

From that fateful day on, I have worked like a robot, trying to recapture the wonderful woman he helped make out of me. I even succeeded in this effort for years, because I always thought of him, always longed for him, always looked for him in the wings, and always fought against self-pity...He had become so indispensable to me that, without him, I no longer took much joy in singing. When he left me, I felt like giving everything up. I had lost my director, my support, my teacher, my maestro.

She would often perform the first part of her show in one of her body-hugging dresses and a swansdown coat, and change to top hat and tails for the second half of the performance. This allowed her to sing songs usually associated with male singers, like "One for My Baby" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face".

"She … transcends her material," according to Peter Bogdanovich. "Whether it's a flighty old tune like 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby' … a schmaltzy German love song, 'Das Lied ist Aus' or a French one 'La Vie en Rose', she lends each an air of the aristocrat, yet she never patronises … A folk song, 'Go 'Way From My Window' has never been sung with such passion, and in her hands 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' is not just another anti-war lament but a tragic accusation against us all."

Francis Wyndham offered a more critical appraisal of the phenomenon of Dietrich in concert. He wrote in 1964: "What she does is neither difficult nor diverting, but the fact that she does it at all fills the onlookers with wonder … It takes two to make a conjuring trick: the illusionist's sleight of hand and the stooge's desire to be deceived. To these necessary elements (her own technical competence and her audience's sentimentality) Marlene Dietrich adds a third—the mysterious force of her belief in her own magic. Those who find themselves unable to share this belief tend to blame themselves rather than her."

Her use of body-sculpting undergarments, nonsurgical temporary facelifts (tape), expert makeup and wigs, combined with careful stage lighting, helped to preserve Dietrich's glamorous image as she grew older.

Dietrich's return to West Germany in 1960 for a concert tour was met with mixed reception— despite a consistently negative press, vociferous protest by chauvinistic Germans who felt she had betrayed her homeland, and two bomb threats, her performance attracted huge crowds. During her performances at Berlin's Titania Palast theatre, protesters chanted, "Marlene Go Home!" On the other hand, Dietrich was warmly welcomed by other Germans, including Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, who was, like Dietrich, an opponent of the Nazis who had lived in exile during their rule. The tour was an artistic triumph, but a financial failure. She was left emotionally drained by the hostility she encountered and she left convinced never to visit again. East Germany, however, received her well. She also undertook a tour of Israel around the same time, which was well-received; she sang some songs in German during her concerts, including, from 1962, a German version of Pete Seeger's anti-war anthem "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", thus breaking the unofficial taboo against the use of German in Israel. She would become the first woman and German to receive the Israeli Medallion of Valor in 1965, "in recognition for her courageous adherence to principle and consistent record of friendship for the Jewish people". Dietrich in London, a concert album, was recorded during the run of her 1964 engagement at the Queen's Theatre.

She performed on Broadway twice (in 1967 and 1968) and won a special Tony Award in 1968. In November 1972, I Wish You Love, a version of Dietrich's Broadway show titled An Evening With Marlene Dietrich, was filmed in London. She was paid $250,000 for her cooperation but was unhappy with the result. The show was broadcast in the UK on the BBC and in the US on CBS in January 1973.

In her sixties and seventies, Dietrich's health declined: she survived cervical cancer in 1965 and suffered from poor circulation in her legs. Dietrich became increasingly dependent on painkillers and alcohol. A stage fall at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Maryland in 1973 injured her left thigh, necessitating skin grafts to allow the wound to heal. She fractured her right leg in August 1974. "Do you think this is glamorous? That it's a great life and that I do it for my health? Well it isn't. Maybe once, but not now," Dietrich told Clive Hirschhorn in 1973, explaining that she continued performing only for the money.

Final years and death

Dietrich's show business career largely ended on 29 September 1975, when she fell off the stage and broke her thigh during a performance in Sydney, Australia. The following year, her husband, Rudolf Sieber, died of cancer on 24 June 1976. Dietrich's final on-camera film appearance was a cameo role in Just a Gigolo (1979), starring David Bowie and directed by David Hemmings, in which she sang the title song.

An alcoholic dependent on painkillers, Dietrich withdrew to her apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne in Paris. She spent the final 11 years of her life mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few—including family and employees—to enter the apartment. During this time, she was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. Her autobiography, Nehmt nur mein Leben (Take Just My Life), was published in 1979.

In 1982, Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, Marlene (1984), but refused to be filmed. The film's director, Maximilian Schell, was allowed only to record her voice. He used his interviews with her as the basis for the film, set to a collage of film clips from her career. The final film won several European film prizes and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary in 1984. Newsweek named it "a unique film, perhaps the most fascinating and affecting documentary ever made about a great movie star".

In 1988, Dietrich recorded spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2005, Dietrich's daughter and grandson claim that Dietrich was politically active during these years. She kept in contact with world leaders by telephone, including Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, running up a monthly bill of over US$3,000. In 1989, her appeal to save the Babelsberg studios from closure was broadcast on BBC Radio, and she spoke on television via telephone on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall later that year.

On 6 May 1992, Dietrich died of renal failure at her flat in Paris at age 90. Her funeral ceremony was conducted at La Madeleine in Paris, a Roman Catholic church on 14 May 1992. Dietrich's funeral service was attended by approximately 1,500 mourners in the church itself—including several ambassadors from Germany, Russia, the US, the UK and other countries—with thousands more outside. Her closed coffin rested beneath the altar draped in the French flag and adorned with a simple bouquet of white wildflowers and roses from the French President, François Mitterrand. Three medals, including France's Legion of Honour and the US Medal of Freedom, were displayed at the foot of the coffin, military style, for a ceremony symbolising the sense of duty Dietrich embodied in her career as an actress, and in her personal fight against Nazism. The officiating priest remarked: "Everyone knew her life as an artist of film and song, and everyone knew her tough stands... She lived like a soldier and would like to be buried like a soldier". By a coincidence of fate her picture was used in the Cannes Film Festival poster that year which was currently pasted up all over Paris.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dietrich instructed in her will that she was to be buried in her birthplace, Berlin, near her family; on 16 May her body was flown there to fulfill her wish. Dietrich was interred at the Städtischer Friedhof III, Berlin-Schöneberg, next to the grave of her mother, Josefine von Losch, and near the house where she was born.

Personal life

Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view. She was fluent in German, English, and French. Dietrich, who was bisexual, quietly enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls of 1920s Berlin. She also defied conventional gender roles through her boxing at Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir’s boxing studio in Berlin, which opened to women in the late 1920s. As Austrian writer Hedwig (Vicki) Baum recalls in her memoir, "I don't know how the feminine element sneaked into those masculine realms [the boxing studio], but in any case, only three or four of us were tough enough to go through with it (Marlene Dietrich was one)."

Dietrich was married only once, to assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who later became an assistant director at Paramount Pictures in France, responsible for foreign language dubbing. Dietrich's only child, Maria Riva, was born in Berlin on 13 December 1924. She would later become an actress, primarily working in television. When Maria gave birth to a son (John, later a famous production designer) in 1948, Dietrich was dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother". After Dietrich's death, Riva published a frank biography of her mother, titled Marlene Dietrich (1992).

Throughout her career, Dietrich had an unending string of affairs, some short-lived, some lasting decades; they often overlapped and were almost all known to her husband, to whom she was in the habit of passing the love letters from her men, sometimes with biting comments. When Dietrich arrived in Hollywood and filmed Morocco (1930), she had an affair with Gary Cooper, even though he was married and already having an affair with Mexican actress Lupe Vélez. Vélez once said, "If I had the opportunity to do so, I would tear out Marlene Dietrich's eyes." Another of her famous affairs was John Gilbert, famous for his alleged affair with Greta Garbo. Gilbert's untimely death was one of the most painful events of her life. Dietrich also had a brief affair with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., even though he was married to Joan Crawford. At the filming of Destry Rides Again, Dietrich started a love affair with co-star James Stewart, which ended after filming. In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor and military hero Jean Gabin. Their romance began when both were supporting the Allied troops in World War II. The relationship ended in the mid-1940s.

In the early 1940s, Dietrich also had an affair with John Wayne, her co-star in two films. Dietrich had a strong friendship with Orson Welles, who for her was a kind of platonic love and whom she considered a genius. She also had an affair with Cuban-American writer Mercedes de Acosta, who claimed to be Greta Garbo's lover. Sewing circle was a phrase used by Dietrich to describe the underground, closeted lesbian and bisexual film actresses and their relationships in Hollywood.

In the supposed "Marlene's Sewing Circle" are mentioned the names of other close friends such as Ann Warner (the wife of Jack L. Warner, one of the owners of the Warner studios), Lili Damita (an old friend of Marlene's from Berlin and the wife of Errol Flynn), Claudette Colbert, and Dolores del Río (whom Dietrich considered the most beautiful woman in Hollywood). The French singer Edith Piaf was also one of Dietrich's closest friends during her stay in Paris in the 1950s, and always rumored something more than friendship between them.

Greta Garbo has been commonly regarded as Dietrich's greatest film rival, but there is also a rumor of an affair between them. This rumor had its highlight in 2000 when writer Diana McLellan released her book The Girls: Sappho goes to Hollywood. The author wrote that, in her research, she found proof of a never-before-reported affair between Garbo and Dietrich. She wrote that they met in Berlin in 1925 while Garbo was filming The Joyless Street and Dietrich had a minor part in the film. Dietrich confirmed that she was indeed in The Joyless Street with Garbo. She admitted it to her British late-life friend and biographer David Bret, an expert on the Berlin nightlife of her era. The two enemies shared the most intimate friends, without so much as a word passing between them or speaking each other's names in public. Finally, in the summer of 1945, when Dietrich was the guest of Orson Welles and his wife Rita Hayworth at their house in Los Angeles, she decided it was time to attempt a reconciliation with Garbo. Dietrich persuaded Welles to invite Garbo to a dinner hosted by Clifton Webb, and Garbo accepted. Welles presented the two women to each other, and promptly Dietrich swarmed around Garbo and told her how inspiring she was, calling Garbo goettlich (divine) and an unsterbliche (undying) muse. Dietrich was evidently unimpressed by Garbo remarking to Welles, "It's not true that she doesn't wear makeup. She had her eyelashes beaded. Do you know how long it takes to have your eyelashes beaded?" They are alleged to have met one last time in New York, when Dietrich, dressed as a nurse to remain incognito, was with her grandson in Central Park. Garbo is supposed to have admired the baby and not recognized Dietrich.

In one of her last interviews, in the early 1990s, the Paris Match magazine asked Dietrich who are, beside her, the biggest movie legends of all time. She named Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, and Rita Hayworth. Her last great passion, when Dietrich was in her 50s, appears to have been for the actor Yul Brynner, with whom she had an affair that lasted more than a decade; her love life continued well into her 70s. She counted Errol Flynn, George Bernard Shaw, John F. Kennedy, Michael Wilding, and Frank Sinatra among her conquests. Dietrich maintained her husband and his mistress first in Europe and later on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, near Hollywood.

Dietrich's family brought her up to follow the Lutheran religion, but she abandoned it as a result of her experiences as a teenager during World War I, after hearing preachers from both sides invoking God as their support. "I lost my faith during the war and can't believe they are all up there, flying around or sitting at tables, all those I've lost." Quoting Goethe in her autobiography, she wrote, "If God created this world, he should review his plan." However, according to her daughter, Maria Riva, Dietrich always travelled with a satchel containing many religious medallions (St. Christopher, etc.), showing her desire to keep her faith. Also, during her reclusive twilight years in Paris, Dietrich allegedly converted to and strongly embraced Roman Catholicism but this hasn't been well corroborated. On 14 May 1992, her funeral ceremony was performed at her favorite Parisian church, La Madeleine.

Legacy

Dietrich was a fashion icon to the top designers as well as a screen icon that later stars would follow. Edith Head remarked that she knew more about fashion than any other actress. Dietrich herself favored Dior. In an interview with The Observer in 1960, she said, "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. If I dressed for myself I wouldn't bother at all. Clothes bore me. I'd wear jeans. I adore jeans. I get them in a public store – men's, of course; I can't wear women's trousers. But I dress for the profession." Her public image included openly defying sexual norms, and she was known for her androgynous film roles and her bisexuality.

A significant volume of academic literature, especially since 1975, analyzes Dietrich's image, as created by the film industry, within various theoretical frameworks, including that of psycho-analysis. Emphasis is placed, inter alia, on the "fetishistic" manipulation of the female image.

In 1992, a plaque was unveiled at Leberstraße 65 in Berlin-Schöneberg, the site of Dietrich's birth. A postage stamp bearing her portrait was issued in Germany on 14 August 1997.

Luxury pen manufacturer MontBlanc produced a limited edition "Marlene Dietrich" pen to commemorate Dietrich's life. It is platinum-plated and has an encrusted deep blue sapphire.

The main-belt asteroid 1010 Marlene, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in 1923, was named in her honor.

For some Germans, Dietrich remained a controversial figure for having sided with Nazi Germany's foes during World War II. In 1996, after some debate, it was decided not to name a street after her in Berlin-Schöneberg, her birthplace. However, on 8 November 1997, the central Marlene-Dietrich-Platz was unveiled in Berlin to honour her. The commemoration reads: Berliner Weltstar des Films und des Chansons. Einsatz für Freiheit und Demokratie, für Berlin und Deutschland ("Berlin world star of film and song. Dedication to freedom and democracy, to Berlin and Germany").

Dietrich was made an honorary citizen of Berlin on 16 May 2002. Translated from German, her memorial plaque reads

Berlin Memorial Plaque


"Tell me, where have all the flowers gone"
Marlene Dietrich
27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992
Actress and Singer
She was one of the few German actresses that attained international significance.
Despite tempting offers by the Nazi regime, she emigrated to the USA and became an American citizen.
In 2002, the city of Berlin posthumously made her an honorary citizen.

"I am, thank God, a Berliner."

Funded by the GASAG Berlin Gasworks Corporation.

The U.S. Government awarded Dietrich the Medal of Freedom for her war work. Dietrich has been quoted as saying this was the honor of which she was most proud in her life. They also awarded her with the Operation Entertainment Medal. The French Government made her a Chevalier (later upgraded to Commandeur) of the Légion d'honneur and a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her other awards include the Medallion of Honor of the State of Israel, the Fashion Foundation of America award and a Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold (Belgium).

Dietrich is referenced in a number of popular 20th century songs, from the Rodgers and Hart's "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (1935) to Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?" (1969).

In 2000 a German biopic film Marlene was made, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint as Dietrich.

Dietrich is made reference to in the fourth season of American Horror Story, in which Elsa Mars, a German woman with dreams of stardom, fails to become famous in part because of her similarities to the already established Dietrich.

Estate

On 24 October 1993, the largest portion of Dietrich's estate was sold to the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek—after U.S. institutions showed no interest—where it became the core of the exhibition at the Filmmuseum Berlin. The collection includes: over 3,000 textile items from the 1920s to the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe; 15,000 photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Lord Snowdon and Edward Steichen; 300,000 pages of documents, including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Noël Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles and Billy Wilder; as well as other items like film posters and sound recordings.

The contents of Dietrich's Manhattan apartment, along with other personal effects such as jewelry and items of clothing, were sold by public auction by Sotheby's (Los Angeles) on 1 November 1997. The apartment itself (located at 993 Park Avenue) was sold for $615,000 in 1998.

Radio

Noteworthy appearances include:

  • Lux Radio Theater: The Legionnaire and the Lady opposite Clark Gable (1 August 1936)
  • Lux Radio Theater: Desire opposite Herbert Marshall (22 July 1937)
  • Lux Radio Theater: Song of Songs opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr (20 December 1937)
  • The Chase and Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen and Don Ameche (2 June 1938)
  • Lux Radio Theater: Manpower opposite Edward G Robinson and George Raft (15 March 1942)
  • The Gulf Screen Guild Theater: Pittsburgh opposite John Wayne (12 April 1943)
  • Theatre Guild on the Air: Grand Hotel opposite Ray Milland (24 March 1948)
  • Studio One: Arabesque (29 June 1948)
  • Theatre Guild on the Air: The Letter opposite Walter Pidgeon (3 October 1948)
  • Ford Radio Theater: Madame Bovary opposite Claude Rains (8 October 1948)
  • Screen Director's Playhouse: A Foreign Affair opposite Rosalind Russell and John Lund (5 March 1949)
  • MGM Theatre of the Air: Anna Karenina (9 December 1949)
  • MGM Theatre of the Air: Camille (6 June 1950)
  • Lux Radio Theater: No Highway in the Sky opposite James Stewart (21 April 1952)
  • Screen Director's Playhouse: A Foreign Affair opposite Lucille Ball and John Lund (1 March 1951)
  • The Big Show starring Tallulah Bankhead (2 October 1951)
  • Marlene Dietrich in conversation with J. W. Lambert and Carl Wildman recorded after her season at the Queen's Theatre London, BBC radio, 12 August 1965 (a shorter version had been broadcast on 2 April).
  • The Child, with Godfrey Kenton, radio play by Shirley Jenkins, produced by Richard Imison for the BBC on 18 August 1965
  • Dietrich's appeal to save the Babelsburg studios was broadcast on BBC radio
  • Dietrich made several appearances on Armed Forces Radio Services shows like The Army Hour and Command Performance during the war years. In 1952, she had her own series on American ABC entitled, Cafe Istanbul. During 1953–54, she starred in 38 episodes of Time for Love on CBS (which debuted 15 January 1953). She recorded 94 short inserts, "Dietrich Talks on Love and Life", for NBC's Monitor in 1958. Dietrich gave many radio interviews worldwide on her concert tours. In 1960, her show at the Tuschinski in Amsterdam was broadcast live on Dutch radio. Her 1962 appearance at the Olympia in Paris was also broadcast.

  • Desert Island Discs, Dietrich asked to choose eight recordings, broadcast Monday 4 January 1965
  • Writing

  • Dietrich, Marlene (1962). Marlene Dietrich's ABC. Doubleday. 
  • Dietrich, Marlene (1979). Nehmt nur mein Leben: Reflexionen (in German). Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-06327-2. 
  • Dietrich, Marlene (1989). Marlene. Salvator Attanasio (translator). Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1117-3. 
  • Dietrich, Marlene (1990). Some Facts About Myself. Helnwein, Gottfried [Conception and photographs]. ISBN 3-89322-226-X. 
  • Filmography

    Actress
    1978
    Just a Gigolo as
    Baroness von Semering
    1964
    Paris When It Sizzles as
    Marlene Dietrich (uncredited)
    1961
    Judgment at Nuremberg as
    Mrs. Bertholt
    1958
    Touch of Evil as
    Tanya
    1957
    Witness for the Prosecution as
    Christine
    1956
    The Montecarlo Story as
    Maria de Crevecoeur
    1956
    Around the World in 80 Days as
    Barbary Coast Saloon Owner
    1952
    Rancho Notorious as
    Altar Keane
    1951
    No Highway in the Sky as
    Monica Teasdale
    1950
    Stage Fright as
    Charlotte Inwood
    1949
    Jigsaw as
    Nightclub Patron (cameo appearance) (uncredited)
    1948
    A Foreign Affair as
    Erika Von Schluetow
    1947
    Golden Earrings as
    Lydia
    1946
    The Room Upstairs as
    Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante
    1944
    Kismet as
    Jamilla
    1944
    Follow the Boys as
    Marlene Dietrich
    1942
    Pittsburgh as
    Josie Winters
    1942
    The Spoilers as
    Cherry Malotte
    1942
    The Lady Is Willing as
    Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden
    1941
    Manpower as
    Fay Duval
    1941
    The Flame of New Orleans as
    Claire Ledeux
    1940
    Seven Sinners as
    Bijou
    1939
    Destry Rides Again as
    Frenchy
    1937
    Angel as
    Lady Maria Barker
    1937
    Knight Without Armor as
    Alexandra
    1936
    I Loved a Soldier as
    Anna Sedlak
    1936
    The Garden of Allah as
    Domini Enfilden
    1936
    Desire as
    Madeleine de Beaupre
    1935
    The Devil Is a Woman as
    Concha Perez
    1934
    The Scarlet Empress as
    Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
    1933
    The Song of Songs as
    Lily Czepanek
    1932
    Blonde Venus as
    Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
    1932
    Shanghai Express as
    Shanghai Lily
    1931
    Dishonored as
    Marie Kolverer / X27
    1930
    Morocco as
    Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
    1930
    Der blaue Engel as
    Lola Lola
    1930
    Nights of Love as
    Evelyne
    1929
    The Ship of Lost Men as
    Ethel Marley
    1929
    Three Loves as
    Stascha
    1929
    I Kiss Your Hand Madame as
    Laurence Gerard / Lucille (U.S. prints)
    1928
    The Art of Love as
    Chichotte de Gastoné
    1927
    Café Elektric as
    Erni Göttlinger - ein flatterhaftes Mädchen
    1927
    Sein größter Bluff as
    Yvette
    1927
    Kopf hoch, Charly! as
    Edmée Marchand
    1927
    Der Juxbaron as
    Sophie, ihre Tochter
    1926
    A Modern Du Barry as
    Kokotte
    1926
    Madame Doesn't Want Children as
    Dancer (uncredited)
    1926
    Manon Lescaut as
    Micheline
    1925
    Dance Fever as
    Dance extra
    1924
    Der Mönch von Santarem
    1924
    Der Sprung ins Leben as
    Mädchen am Strand
    1923
    The Countess of Paris as
    Lucie
    1923
    The Tragedy of Love as
    Lucy
    1923
    Man by the Roadside as
    Krämerstochter
    1923
    So sind die Männer as
    Kathrin
    1919
    Im Schatten des Glücks (unconfirmed)
    Music Department
    2011
    Aquile senza corona (opening theme singer)
    2007
    Nena: Ich werde dich lieben (Music Video)
    Soundtrack
    2021
    Can't Get You Out of My Head (TV Mini Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain (2021) - (performer: "Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind")
    2018
    Can You Ever Forgive Me? (performer: "Illusions")
    2017
    Babylon Berlin (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.4 (2017) - (performer: "Das ist Berlin wie's weint, das ist Berlin wie's lacht" - uncredited)
    2017
    Freedom (performer: "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte")
    2017
    I Love Dick (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ilinx (2017) - (performer: "Sag' mir, wo die Blumen sind" - uncredited)
    2017
    Un Français nommé Gabin (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "La Vie en Rose")
    2016
    Personal Shopper (performer: "Das Hobellied")
    2016
    My First Apartamento: JD Samson (Documentary short) (performer: "Symphonie d'Amour")
    2016
    Whoever Was Using This Bed (Short) (performer: "You Do Something To Me")
    2015
    Worlds Apart (performer: "You Do Something to Me")
    2015
    Chico: Artista Brasileiro (Documentary) (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
    2015
    A Perfect Day (performer: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", "ONE FOR THE ROAD")
    2014
    Gotham (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
    - Under the Knife (2015) - (performer: "You're the Cream in My Coffee" - uncredited)
    - The Mask (2014) - (performer: "Come Rain Or Come Shine" - uncredited)
    2015
    Danny Says (Documentary) (performer: "Boys in the Backroom")
    2013
    Stars of the Silver Screen (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Marlene Dietrich (2013) - (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Falling in Love Again", "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have", "You've Got That Look" - uncredited)
    2011
    Skwerl (Video short) (performer: "Cherche la Rose")
    2011
    Codebreaker (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
    2009
    Memòries de la tele (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #4.9 (2009) - (performer: "Lili Marlene")
    2009
    Giovinezza (Short) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
    2008
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (Video documentary) (performer: "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" - uncredited)
    2007
    The War (TV Mini Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Ghost Front: December 1944 - March 1945 (2007) - (performer: "Lili Marleen")
    2004
    Dancing Dog (Short) (performer: "You Do Something to Me")
    2003
    Get Up, Stand Up (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Next Stop Vietnam (2003) - (performer: "Sag mir wo die Blumen sind" (German version of 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'))
    2002
    Black Angel (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (Falling in Love Again)" - uncredited)
    2002
    How to Draw a Bunny (Documentary) (performer: "Awake In A Dream")
    2001
    Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (Documentary) (performer: "Lili Marlene", "Wenn die Beste Freundin", "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "Ich bin die fesche Lola", "Quand l'Amour Meurt", "Awake In a Dream", "Another Spring, Another Love", "The Boys in the Back Room", "The Man's in the Navy", "Look Me Over Closely", "You Little So-And-So", "Illusions", "White Grass", "I May Never Go Home Anymore", "Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", "Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen")
    2001
    Transfixed (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe Eingestellt", "Jonny")
    2001
    The Anniversary Party (performer: "I May Never Go Home Anymore")
    2000
    Nuremberg (TV Mini Series) (performer: "I Never Slept a Wink Last Night")
    2000
    Paragraph 175 (Documentary) (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
    1999
    Fight Club (performer: "No Love, No Nothin'")
    1999
    Dreamers (performer: "La Vie en Rose")
    1997
    Heaven's Burning (performer: "ANOTHER SPRING, ANOTHER LOVE")
    1997
    Breaking Up (performer: "COME RAIN OR COME SHINE")
    1996
    Une femme d'honneur (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Lola, Lola (1996) - (performer: "Ich bin die fesche Lola" - uncredited)
    1996
    The Delicate Art of the Rifle (performer: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone", "Blowing In The Wind")
    1994
    El detective y la muerte (performer: "I've Been in Love Before")
    1991
    Scenes from a Mall (performer: "You Do Something to Me")
    1989
    Berliner Tag (performer: "LILI MARLEN")
    1988
    Judgment in Berlin (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt")
    1981
    Kintopp Kintopp (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Guter Ton ist teuer (1981) - (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" - uncredited)
    1978
    Just a Gigolo (performer: "Just a Gigolo" (Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo))
    1974
    The Murdered Young Girl (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Ich bin die fesche Lola")
    1973
    The Mother and the Whore (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
    1973
    An Evening with Marlene Dietrich (Documentary) (performer: "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "My Blue Heaven", "The Boys in the Backroom", "The Laziest Gal in Town", "When the World was Young" (Le Chevalier de Paris), "I Wish You Love" (Que Reste-t-il de nos Amours ?), "White Grass", "Boomerang Baby", "Naughty Lola", "La Vie en Rose", "Lili Marleen", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "Honeysuckle Rose", "Falling in Love Again")
    1972
    The Death of Maria Malibran (performer: "Auf der Mundharmonika")
    1970
    Myra Breckinridge (performer: "The Man's in the Navy" - uncredited)
    1968
    Magic of Marlene (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", "You're The Cream In My Coffee", "My Blue Heaven", "(See What) The Boys In The Back Room (Will Have)", "The Laziest Gal In Town", "When the World was Young" (Le Chevalier de Paris), "Jonny", "Go 'Way From My Window", "White Grass", "Boomerang Baby", "La Vie en Rose", "Naughty Lola", "Frag Nicht Warum Ich Gehe", "Lili Marlene", "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?", "Falling In Love Again")
    1965
    The Love Goddesses (Documentary) (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Quand l'Amour Meurt" - uncredited)
    1964
    Katharina Knie - Ein Seiltänzerstück (TV Movie) (performer: "Auf der Mundharmonika")
    1963
    Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Falling in Love Again" (aka "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt") - uncredited)
    1961
    Judgment at Nuremberg (performer: "Lili Marleen" - uncredited)
    1961
    Via Mala (performer: "Johnny, wenn Du Geburtstag hast" - uncredited)
    1957
    Witness for the Prosecution (performer: "I May Never Go Home Anymore")
    1956
    The Montecarlo Story (performer: "Les Jeux sont Faits", "Indiana" (uncredited))
    1955
    I Am a Camera (performer: "Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin")
    1952
    Der Fürst von Pappenheim (performer: "wer wird denn weinen,wenn mann auseinander geht")
    1952
    Rancho Notorious (performer: "Get Away Young Man", "Gypsy Davey")
    1950
    Stage Fright (performer: "The Laziest Gal in Town" (1950) (uncredited), "La Vie en Rose", "Love Is Lyrical (Whisper Sweet Little Nothing to Me)" (1950) (uncredited))
    1948
    A Foreign Affair (performer: "Black Market", "Illusions", "The Ruins of Berlin" - uncredited)
    1946
    The Secret Heart (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love")
    1944
    Kismet (performer: "Tell Me, Tell Me, Evening Star" (1944) - uncredited)
    1942
    The Lady Is Willing (performer: "I Find Love")
    1941
    Manpower (performer: "He Lied and I Listened" (1941))
    1941
    The Flame of New Orleans (performer: "Sweet Is the Blush of May")
    1940
    Seven Sinners (performer: "I've Been in Love Before" (1940), "The Man's in the Navy" (1940), "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (1928) (uncredited))
    1939
    Destry Rides Again (performer: "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" (1939), "You've Got That Look" (1939), "Little Joe, the Wrangler" (1939) - uncredited)
    1937
    Angel (performer: "Angel" (1937) - uncredited)
    1936
    Desire (performer: "Awake in a Dream")
    1935
    The Devil Is a Woman (performer: "Three Sweethearts Have I")
    1935
    Regine (performer: "Ach wie ist's möglich")
    1934
    Ihr größter Erfolg (performer: "Hobellied")
    1933
    March of the Movies (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
    1933
    The Song of Songs (performer: "Heideroslein", "Jonny" - uncredited)
    1932
    Blonde Venus (performer: "Hot Voodoo" (uncredited), "You Little So-and-So ('Vous mon Amour')", "I Couldn't Be Annoyed" (uncredited))
    1932
    The Tempest (performer: "Ich weiß nicht, zu wem ich gehöhre")
    1931
    Dishonored ("Donauwellen (Danube Waves)") / (performer: "Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight'")
    1931
    The Man in Search of His Murderer (performer: "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte...")
    1930
    Morocco (performer: "Quand l'Amour Meurt", "What Am I Bid for My Apple?")
    1930
    Der blaue Engel (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Ich bin die fesche Lola", "Nimm Dich in Acht vor blonden Frau'n", "Kinder, heut' abend, da such' ich mir was aus" - uncredited)
    1929
    Why Cry at Parting? (performer: "Wer wird denn weinen wenn man auseinander geht")
    Thanks
    2002
    S1m0ne (Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone)
    Self
    -
    The 23rd Annual Academy Awards as
    Self - Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film
    1984
    Marlene (Documentary) as
    Self - Narrator (voice)
    1973
    An Evening with Marlene Dietrich (Documentary) as
    Self
    1971
    Ettan gästar Marlene Dietrich (TV Special short) as
    Self
    1968
    Magic of Marlene (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1968
    The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Special Tony Award Recipient
    1966
    BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich Sings (1966) - Self
    1964
    Aktuelle Kamera (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 January 1964 (1964) - Self
    1963
    The Royal Variety Performance 1963 (TV Special) as
    Self
    1963
    Galakväll på Berns: Marlene Dietrich show presenteras av Karl Gerhard (TV Special short) as
    Self - Musician
    1963
    Deutsche Schlagerfestival 1963 (TV Special) as
    Singer
    1963
    Deutsche Schlagerfestspiele 1963 (TV Special) as
    Self - Special Guest
    1963
    Musik der Welt (TV Movie) as
    Self - Musician
    1963
    Gala de l'union (TV Series) as
    Self
    - 33ème gala de l'union des artistes (1963) - Self
    1962
    Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (Documentary) as
    Narrator (voice)
    1960
    Friedrich Hollaender erzählt (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1943
    Show-Business at War (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1942
    Breakdowns of 1942 (Short) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1937
    Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1935
    Dolores Del Rio and Cedric Gibbons Throw a Party (Short) as
    Self
    1935
    The Fashion Side of Hollywood (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1933
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (Short) as
    Self
    1928
    Die glückliche Mutter (Documentary short) as
    Self
    Archive Footage
    2023
    Compression (TV Series documentary)
    - Compression The Scarlet Empress de Josef Von Sternberg (2023)
    2022
    Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Peter Cushing on Marlene Dietrich (2022) - Self
    2022
    Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Sois belle et tais-toi (2022) - Self
    2022
    Hollywood Insider (TV Series) as
    Self
    - A Tribute to Billy Wilder: The Invisible Director, Romantic Comic and Film Noir Auteur (2022) - Self
    - The Greatest Legal Dramas of All Time: No, You're Out of Order! A Ranking of Truth, Justice & Movies (2022) - Self
    2021
    Rochefort, Noiret, Marielle: les copains d'abord (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    The Côte d'Azur: Love, Luxury, Passion (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2021
    Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Val (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2021
    Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Die schönsten Orte an der Ringbahn (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    30 Favoriten (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Die schönsten Kultschlager der 60er (2021) - Self
    2020
    Beautiful Like a Poem (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2020
    Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    Das große Welttheater: Salzburg und seine Festspiele (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    Rembob'Ina (TV Series documentary)
    - Le gala de l'union (2020)
    2009
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
    Madeleine de Beaupre / Shanghai Lily
    - Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020) - Madeleine de Beaupre
    - Hollywood Chinese (2009) - Shanghai Lily
    2019
    Greatest Events of WWII in Colour (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Lola Lola (in 'Der blaue Engel')
    - Battle of the Bulge (2019) - Lola Lola (in 'Der blaue Engel')
    2019
    Dietrich, a Queer Icon (Video short documentary)
    2019
    I did what he told me to do. (Video documentary short)
    2019
    The Movies (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Golden Age (2019) - Self
    2018
    Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2018
    How Andy invented a superstar: true uncut tales from Andy Warhol's Factory People (Documentary short)
    2018
    America in Color (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Hollywood's Golden Age (2018) - Self
    2018
    Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2017
    Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    Sold Out! Cinema Under Occupation (Documentary)
    2017
    Great British Royal Ships (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Queen Mary: Our Royals at Sea (2017) - Self (uncredited)
    2017
    Un Français nommé Gabin (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2016
    SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (Documentary) as
    Self
    2015
    Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2015
    Duels (TV Series documentary)
    - Dietrich, Garbo, l'ange et la divine (2015)
    2014
    From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (Documentary) as
    Self
    2014
    Somewhere Over the Rainbow (TV Movie documentary) as
    Lola Lola (uncredited)
    2014
    Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam (TV Movie documentary) as
    Lola Lola
    2014
    From Gold to Containers, from Salt to Empires (Video) as
    Self
    2013
    Stars of the Silver Screen (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich (2013) - Self
    2013
    Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words (Documentary)
    2013
    Duelle (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich gegen Zarah Leander (2013) - Self
    2012
    Arena (TV Series documentary)
    - Screen Goddesses (2012)
    2012
    Not Fade Away as
    Tanya in Touch of Evil (uncredited)
    2012
    Marlene - Le Crépuscule d'un ange (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2012
    Hilde Knef - Ein Weltstar aus Berlin (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2011
    Kentler Ve Gölgeler (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Subject
    - Dolunay Soysert, Berlin, Marlene Dietrich (2011) - Self - Subject
    2011
    Vito (Documentary)
    2011
    Dior J'adore (Video short) as
    Self
    2011
    Extraordinary Women (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Hedy Lamarr (2011) - Self
    2011
    Erich Maria Remarque, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard (Documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Memòries de la tele (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #5.13 (2010) - Self
    - Episode #5.2 (2010) - Self
    2010
    L'Occupation sans relâche - Les artistes pendant la guerre (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Erich Maria Remarque & Marlene & Paulette (Documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Documentary) as
    Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
    2009
    Vegas: The City the Mob Made (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Actress
    - On Top of the World (2009) - Self - Actress
    2009
    Apocalypse: The Second World War (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - L'agression (2009) - Self
    2009
    Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    Strictly Courtroom (TV Movie documentary) as
    Christine Helm (uncredited)
    2007
    Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (Documentary) as
    Self
    2007
    History (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Die großen Diven (2007) - Self
    2006
    Amérique, notre histoire (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2003
    Unsere Besten (TV Series) as
    Various roles / Self
    - Lieblingsschauspieler (2006) - Various roles
    - Wer ist der größte Deutsche? (2003) - Self
    2006
    The Best of the Royal Variety (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Legends (2006) - Self
    2006
    Private Screenings (TV Series) as
    Helen Faraday / Helen Jones - 'Blonde Venus'
    - Child Stars (2006) - Helen Faraday / Helen Jones - 'Blonde Venus' (uncredited)
    2006
    Billy Wilder Speaks (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2006
    Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2006
    Ciclo Agatha Christie (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Sobre 'Testigo de cargo' (2006) - Self
    2004
    American Experience (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 (2005) - Self
    - The Fight (2004) - Self
    2005
    Filmlegenden. Deutsch (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2005
    Legendary Sin Cities (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self - Actress
    - Berlin: Metropolis of Vice (2005) - Self - Actress
    2004
    Legends of World Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich - Self
    2004
    Nec plus ultra (TV Series) as
    Self
    2004
    Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' (Video documentary short) as
    Self / Charlotte Inwood
    2004
    The Ritchie Boys (Documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    Checking Out: Grand Hotel (Video documentary short) as
    Self - At the premiere
    2003
    Falling in Love Again (Short) as
    Vocalist
    2003
    Piaf, sans amour on n'est rien du tout (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2003
    Get Up, Stand Up (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Next Stop Vietnam (2003) - Self
    2003
    The Dreamers as
    Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones (uncredited)
    2003
    Complicated Women (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2002
    History's Mysteries (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The FBI Celebrity Files (2002) - Self
    2002
    The Great Yiddish Love (Video short)
    2002
    Prisoner of Paradise (Documentary)
    2002
    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (TV Series)
    - Spiele der Diktaturen (2002)
    2001
    Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Wir wollen unseren alten Kaiser Wilhelm wieder haben (2001) - Self
    2001
    The Nightclub Years (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    2001
    Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (Documentary) as
    Self
    2001
    Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (TV Mini Series) as
    Self
    - Teil 3 (2001) - Self (uncredited)
    2001
    Hollywood Rivals (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich Vs. Greta Garbo - Self
    1998
    Biography (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Carole Lombard: Hollywood's Profane Angel (2001) - Self
    - Marlene: Inventing Dietrich (2000) - Self
    - Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life (1998) - Self
    2001
    Hitlers Frauen (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich - Die Gegnerin (2001) - Self
    2000
    Marlene Dietrich and Joseph von Sternberg (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1999
    E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marlene Dietrich (1999) - Self
    1999
    60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Actress (segment "Burt Bacharach")
    - Taking Aim at the Gun Industry/Genius/Burt Bacharach (1999) - Self - Actress (segment "Burt Bacharach")
    1998
    Das Dritte Reich - In Farbe (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1998
    Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (TV Movie documentary)(uncredited)
    1998
    Legenden (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Interviewee 1972
    - Marlene Dietrich (1998) - Self - Interviewee 1972
    1998
    Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1996
    The Real Las Vegas (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    1996
    Marlene Dietrich: Shadow and Light (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1996
    Great Performances (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Burt Bacharach- This Is Now (1996) - Self
    1995
    The Casting Couch (Video documentary)
    1995
    Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self in screen test / Lola Lola
    - End of an Era (1995) - Self in screen test / Lola Lola
    1995
    Inside the Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1995
    Get Shorty as
    Tanya (uncredited)
    1995
    Century of Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
    Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II, 'The Scarlet Empress'
    - A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) - Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II, 'The Scarlet Empress' (uncredited)
    1995
    The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1995
    Radio Star - die AFN-Story (Documentary) as
    Self
    1994
    Cinegrafias (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1994
    That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) as
    Performer in Clip from 'Kismet' (uncredited)
    1994
    Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some (Video documentary) as
    Domini Enfilden (segment "Time After Time")
    1993
    Dos reinas (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1993
    Nachlass Marlene Dietrich (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    1993
    The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Documentary) as
    Self
    1992
    L'Oeil du cyclone (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - L'Ouïe d'un cyclope (1992) - Self
    1991
    Nylon blues (Documentary)
    1990
    The Dietrich Songs (Documentary) as
    Self
    1990
    Hollywood Mavericks (Documentary) as
    Lydia (uncredited)
    1989
    Only in Hollywood (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    1989
    Durch dich wird diese Welt erst schön, ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte des deutschen Schlagers (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    1988
    Entertaining the Troops (Documentary) as
    Self
    1987
    Bloopermania (Video documentary) as
    Self
    1984
    Going Hollywood: The '30s (Documentary) as
    Self
    1984
    Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time (Music Video) as
    Domini Enfilden
    1983
    Los que hicieron nuestro cine (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Dos monjes - Self
    - La Mujer del puerto - Self
    1983
    Étoiles et toiles (TV Series documentary)
    - L'érotisme au cinéma (1983)
    1981
    Kintopp Kintopp (TV Series) as
    Lola Lola
    - Guter Ton ist teuer (1981) - Lola Lola (uncredited)
    1981
    Sixty Years of Seduction (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1980
    Il était une fois: Le gala de l'union des artistes (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1980
    Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1979
    Un sanglant symbole (Short) as
    Self
    1977
    That's Action (Documentary) as
    Self
    1977
    All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Rude Songs: Vaudeville & Music Hall (1977) - Self
    1975
    Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary)
    1974
    Vive la France (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1967
    Edith Piaf: Quatre ans déjà... (TV Special documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1965
    Triumph Over Violence (Documentary) as
    Self
    1965
    The Love Goddesses (Documentary) as
    Self
    1963
    Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Wild and Wonderful Thirties (1964) - Self (uncredited)
    - Hollywood Goes to War (1964) - Self
    - The Man Called Bogart (1963) - Self (uncredited)
    1964
    The Judy Garland Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.18 (1964) - Self
    1963
    Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1961
    The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) as
    Self
    - USO - Wherever They Go! (1961) - Self
    1958
    Das kommt nicht wieder (Documentary) as
    Self
    1958
    It Only Happened Once as
    Self - Marlene Dietrich
    1953
    Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1944
    Memo for Joe (Short documentary) as
    Self
    1933
    March of the Movies as
    Self (film clip from 'Der Blaue Engel")

    References

    Marlene Dietrich Wikipedia


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