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The real John Wayne cheated on his (three) wives with a string of lovers, downed shots of tequila and smoked four or five packs of Camels a day ... He had affair with Marlene Dietrich while he was ...
- She Lost Everything
- Her Whole Life Changed
- Her Childhood Was Tumultuous
- She Wanted More
- She Hit A Heartbreaking Roadblock
- She Denied Her Past
- She Was Salacious
- She Had A Quickie Wedding
- She Let Him Stray
- She Captivated Him
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. When Marlene was just five years old, her beloved father was thrown from his horse and died. The tr...
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. However, there was a scandalous side to this desperate move. Wilhelmina Dietrich soon fell for the man she was working for, a colonel named Eduard von Losch. Only it wasn’t ...
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. The respite he offered to Wilhelmina and her girls was sadly only a brief one, as he died in combat just two years later. Once again, the Dietrichs were adrift, with just Von Losch’s pension to keep ...
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. Dietrich wanted to be the best around. She would practice for six hours at a time, mastering complicated pieces. Wilhelmina spent thousands supporting her daughter’s goals—until tragedy stru...
Dietrich had injured the bones in her hand, and her musical career was already over before it even began. Still, she picked herself up out of the depths of despair and adapted. If she couldn’t be a concert violinist, she could still perform, in a sense. Dietrich turned her focus to acting. A moderately successful career on the German silent screen ...
If you asked Dietrich what her first movie was, she’d tell you that it was the starring role of Lola Lola in the 1929 Josef Von Sternberg film The Blue Angel. That, of course, would be a blatant lie. According to her, none of those earlier films “counted,” but she had her reasons for this subterfuge. For one, Dietrich’s beliefs and lifestyle didn’t...
Dietrich may have positioned herself as a mysterious femme fatale—but as her pre-fame life proves, she had a scandalous wild side.She was a regular at gay bars and drag balls in Weimar-era Berlin, and engaged in a number of passionate affairs with men and women alike. Dietrich’s devil-may-care attitude and party-girl lifestyle propelled her through...
Dietrich was just 22 when she met and married assistant director Rudolf Sieber in 1924. What made Dietrich pull this complete 180? According to Dietrich, she was madly in love—but those of us who can count might suspect a scandalous secondary possibility. Dietrich was most definitely pregnant when she tied the knot. She gave birth to a baby girl in...
Soon after they tied the knot, Dietrich’s beloved husband met and fell for a dancer. However, that’s not the surprising part. Dietrich’s bizarre reaction was. She wholeheartedly supported her husband’s mistress, even giving her gifts and letting her hang out with her daughter Maria. Thus began one of Hollywood’s longest-running open marriages—but, ...
Marlene Dietrich never let her whirlwind personal life get in the way of her film career or the glam-yet-nonchalant image she started cultivating long before she became a star. It was exactly this aura that captivated director Josef Von Sternberg, who needed a leading lady for a film he was set to direct. It was Germany’s first full sound film: The...
Feb 9, 2023 · Dietrich was linked to romantic affairs with famous men including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and James Stewart. She also reportedly had a brief tryst with US president John F Kennedy. Marlene Dietrich proudly lived life on her terms, with her head held high and helped others do the same.
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Mar 22, 2023 · In the book “John Wayne: The Life and Legend,” published in 2014, author Scott Eyman says Wayne had a three-year affair with Marlene Dietrich, but his romance with longtime friend Maureen O ...
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Wayne once publicly steered clear of Dietrich after she shouted at him, “Mommy wants that for Christmas.”. John Wayne played Dan in ‘Seven Sinners’ L-r: Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne | Universal Pictures / Getty Images. Wayne and Dietrich starred in three movies over the course of their careers. It all started with 1940’s Seven ...
May 6, 2013 · She became a U.S. citizen in 1939 and was one of the first celebrities to support the war effort, selling war bonds and tirelessly entertaining the troops in the U.S., the Pacific and Europe. She ...
