Marlene Dietrich ; (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress, singer, and entertainer. She is considered to have been the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood.

In her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and movie actress in Berlin in the 1920s, Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, World War II entertainer at the front of war during the 1940s, and finally as an international theatre show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s, Dietrich became one of the most important movie icons of the 20th century. The American Film Institute ranked Dietrich No. 9 amongst the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.

Dietrich was bisexual. She became an American citizen in 1937.

Movies 
 Im Schatten des Glücks (1919)
 Love Tragedy (1923)
 The Little Napoleon (1923)
 Man by the Wayside (1923)
 Leap Into Life (1924)
 Dance Mad (1925)
 The Bogus Baron (1926)
 Manon Lescaut (1926)
 Madame Doesn't Want Children (1926)
 A Modern DuBarry (1927)
 Chin Up, Charley! (1927)
 His Greatest Bluff (1927)
 Cafe Electric (1927)
 Princess Olala (1928)
 Dangers of the Engagement Period (1929)
 I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929)
 The Woman One Longs For (1929)
 The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
 The Blue Angel (1930)
 Morocco (1930)
 Dishonored (1931)
 Shanghai Express (1932)
 Blonde Venus (1932)
 The Song of Songs (1933)
 The Scarlet Empress (1934)
 The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935) (short subject)
 The Devil is a Woman (1935)
 I Loved a Soldier (1936) (unfinished)
 Desire (1936)
 The Garden of Allah (1936)
 Knight Without Armour (1937)
 Angel (1937)
 Destry Rides Again (1939)
 Seven Sinners (1940)
 The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
 Manpower (1941)
 The Lady in Willing (1942)
 The Spoilers (1942)
 Pittsburgh (1942)
 Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
 Follow the Boys (1944)
 Kismet (1944)
 Martin Roumagnac (1946)
 Golden Earrings (1947)
 A Foreign Affair (1948)
 Jigsaw (1949) (cameo)
 Stage Fright (1950)
 No Highway in the Sky (1951)
 Rancho Notorious (1952)
 The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (cameo)
 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
 Touch of Evil (1958)
 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
 Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962) (documentary) (narrator)
 Paris, When It Sizzles (1964) (cameo)
 An Evening With Marlene Dietrich (I Wish You Love) (1972) London concert film
 Just a Gigolo (1979)
 Marlene (1984) (documentary)

References

Other websites 

 Official website 
 Marlene Dietrich UK Website The Legendary, Lovely Marlene
 
 
 
 
 LEGEND : Marlene Dietrich's concert career. 
 The Hitmaker Archive of Dietrich's recordings associated with Burt Bacharach's musical direction 
 "Lost Marlene Dietrich Love Poem to Ronald Reagan Found" 
 Gay Great - Marlene Dietrich
 ABC Nightline (03/28/07): 'I Want to Kiss You Forever': Romance and Friendship Mix in Rare Dietrich, Hemingway Letters Set for First Public Viewing
 Marlene Dietrich's mascot dolls
 Marlene Dietrich Collection, Berlin (MDCB) 

1901 births
1992 deaths
Actors from Berlin
American LGBT people
American movie actors
Singers from Los Angeles
American stage actors
Bisexual people
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in France
German atheists
German LGBT people
German movie actors
German stage actors
German singers
LGBT actors
LGBT musicians
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American radio actors
Tony Award winning actors
American silent movie actors
Actors from Los Angeles