Marlene Dietrich

**Marlene Dietrich** ; (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress, singer and entertainer. She was thought 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. She became a Hollywood movie star in the 1930s. She was a World War II entertainer at the front of war during the 1940s. Her final job was 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)

## 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)

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Marlene Dietrich
- **image**: Marlene Dietrich in No Highway (1951) (Cropped).png
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Marlene Dietrich in 1951
- **birth place**: Schöneberg, Berlin, German Empire, Germany
- **death place**: Paris, France
- **resting place**: Städtischer Friedhof III,
Berlin-Berlin#Boroughs, Schöneberg, Germany
- **birth name**: Marie Magdalene Dietrich
- **occupation**: Actress, singer
- **years active**: 1919–1984
- **spouse**: Rudolf Sieber
(married 1923–1976)
- **children**: Maria Riva