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Born in Schöneberg, Germany, Dietrich was raised with her sister, Elizabeth, in Berlin and Dressau by her father, Louis, a policeman, and her mother, Wilhelmina, a jeweler's daughter.
Jun 19, 2017 · A dazzling new exhibition features dozens of photographs of the seductive, German-born movie star Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich's legs were so famous that her studio insured them, and you can see why ...
Dietrich returned to making movies and performing on stage after the war. But as the years passed, her movie roles diminished, and she shifted her focus to performing on stage. She stopped acting in the 1970s, although she continued to write poetry and biographies about her life.
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Today, TCM is showing 12 Marlene Dietrich movies, in addition to J. David Riva’s 2001 documentary Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song. Riva, I should add, is the son of Maria Riva and Dietrich’s grandson. (See Marlene Dietrich Movie Schedule further below.) Unfortunately, TCM isn’t presenting any Marlene Dietrich movie premieres today.
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus.
Blonde Venus movie (1932) with Marlene Dietrich as an ex-gorilla in the “Hot Voodoo” number: A recent German import, Dietrich was a Best Actress Academy Award nominee for Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco (for the period 1930–31).
