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Marie Magdalene " Marlene " Dietrich [4] ( / mɑːrˈleɪnə ˈdiːtrɪx /, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ⓘ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) [5] was a German-born actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. [6] In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola ...
May 9, 2024 · Marlene Dietrich (born December 27, 1901, Schöneberg [now in Berlin], Germany—died May 6, 1992, Paris, France) was a German American motion-picture actress whose beauty, voice, aura of sophistication, and languid sensuality made her one of the world’s most glamorous film stars. Dietrich’s father, Ludwig Dietrich, a Royal Prussian police ...
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- Marlene Dietrich was a German-born motion-picture actress whose beauty, voice, aura of sophistication, and languid sensuality made her one of the w...
- Marlene Dietrich was born on December 27, 1901 in Schöneberg (now in Berlin), Germany.
- Director Josef von Sternberg cast Marlene Dietrich as Lola-Lola, the sultry and world-weary female lead in Der blaue Engel (1930; The Blue Angel),...
- During the Third Reich and despite Adolf Hitler’s requests, Marlene Dietrich refused to work in Germany, and her films were temporarily banned ther...
- Marlene Dietrich died on May 6, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Born on December 27, 1901, in Berlin, Germany, Marlene Dietrich had the given name Maria Magdalene Dietrich. In her teens, she gave up music to explore acting. She appeared in her first film, Tragedy of Love, in 1923. She explored notions of feminism with her femme fatale roles in films, such as in the film Morocco. She died on May 6, 1992, in Pari...
Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich was born Maria Magdalene Dietrich on December 27, 1901, in Berlin, Germany. One of the most glamorous leading ladies of the 1930s and 1940s, Marlene Dietrich is remembered for her smoldering sex appeal, distinctive voice, and unusual personal style. Her police officer father died when she was young, and her mothe...
Dietrich’s career in Germany began to take off in the late 1920s. Making film history, she was cast in Germany’s first talking picture Der Blaue Engel (1930) by Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg. An English language version, The Blue Angel, was also filmed using the same cast. With her sultry good looks and sophisticated manner, Dietrich was a...
In her personal life, Dietrich was a strong opponent of the Nazi government in Germany. She had been asked to return to Germany by people associated with Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s to make films there, but she turned them down. As a result, her films were banned in her native land. She made her new country her official home by becoming a U.S. c...
By the mid-1970s, Dietrich had given up performing. She moved to Paris where she lived out the remainder of her life in near-seclusion. In the mid-1980s, she did provide some audio commentary for Maximillian Schell’s documentary film on her, Marlene(1984), but she refused to appear on camera. Dietrich died on May 6, 1992, in her Paris home. After h...
- She Lost Everything. Marie Magdalene Dietrich—later known as Marlene, of course—was born to a prosperous family in Berlin in 1902. It all should have been so easy…but no amount of wealth and privilege could save young Marlene from the years of heartache that awaited her.
- Her Whole Life Changed. The loss of their patriarch and the outbreak of WWI thrust the Dietrich family into utter chaos. In order to support the family, Marlene’s mother took on work as a housekeeper.
- Her Childhood Was Tumultuous. Marlene Dietrich’s memories of her stepfather are scant. After all, he tied the knot with her mother in 1914, as WWI raged on, and he was in the army.
- She Wanted More. Marlene’s mother didn’t want her to have to rely on a man, so she encouraged her daughter to follow her dreams of being a violinist…but not just any violinist.
Marlene Dietrich. Actress: Witness for the Prosecution. Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a ...
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Jun 19, 2017 · Marlene Dietrich kisses a GI as he arrives home to New York from World War II (1945) —. When the Nazis asked her to star in propaganda films in 1937, she refused. Two years later, she renounced ...
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Marlene Dietrich. Actress: Witness for the Prosecution. Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator then as a cabaret singer. In 1923, she...
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