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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin, she performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in many Hollywood films, including six roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935). Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.
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Born 27 December 1901 · Died 6 May 1992 · Q4612
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Artist William Kentridge included a drawing of Dietrich in his solo museum exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles
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With the Theater Lindenhof in Burladingen-Melchingen, Swabian Alb
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Released album “The Album”.
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Released album “The Marlene Dietrich Collection 1930-62”.
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Swarovski commissioned a $60,000 Art Deco-styled dress in the style of her "nude dress", from Berlin-based fashion tech company ElektroCouture to honor Dietrich 25 years after her death
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Released album “Divas, Marlene”.
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Released album “Das Beste 1929 – 1959: 56 Evergreens & Raritäten”.
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Released album “BD Music Presents Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Marlene Dietrich With the Burt Bacharach Orchestra”.
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Released album “Falling in Love Again (The Marlene Dietrich Collection)”.
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Released album “Lili Marlene”.
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Released album “Strange Delight”.
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Released album “Golden Greats”.
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Released album “At the Movies”.
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Released album “Falling in Love Again With Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Blonde Women”.
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Released album “Fraulein Wonder”.
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Released album “Von Kopf bis Fuß”.
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Released album “Von Kopf bis Fuß...: Lieder der 30'er und 40'er Jahre”.
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Released album “The Marlene Dietrich Collection”.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Berlin (2002).
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Released album “Ihre grossen Erfolge”.
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Released album “Marlene Forever”.
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Released album “Der blonde Engel”.
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Released album “Most Famous Hits”.
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Released album “Der blonde Engel: Die Retrospektive”.
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Released album “The Legends Collection: Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Ich bin die fesche Lola”.
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20006 items
Released album “Lili Marlene: The Best of Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Berlin - Hollywood”.
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Released album “Marlene”.
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Released album “La Blonde Vénus 1928–1948”.
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Released album “Nur das Beste”.
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Released album “Universal Legends”.
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Released album “A Portrait of Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Die frühen Aufnahmen”.
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Released album “Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt / Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein”.
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Released album “Legends of the 20th Century”.
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Released album “L'Opéra de Quat'sous”.
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The American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema
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Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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Released album “Falling in Love Again”.
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Released album “More of the Best”.
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After some debate, it was decided not to name a street after her in Berlin-Schöneberg, her birthplace
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Released album “Immortal Songs”.
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Released album “Mythos und Legende / Myth and Legend”.
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Released album “Collection”.
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Released album “Marlene: Her 18 Greatest Recordings”.
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Released album “The Cosmopolitan Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Ciné-stars : Marlene Dietrich”.
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Died 1992-05-06.
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Released album “On Screen, Stage and Radio”.
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After Dietrich's death, Riva published a candid biography of her mother, titled Marlene Dietrich (1992).
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“¿De qué voy a hablar con usted? Tengo una reunión inminente con su jefe».[Was soll ich mit Ihnen reden? Ich habe demnächst einen Termin mit Ihrem Boss].”
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A plaque was unveiled at Leberstraße 65 in Berlin-Schöneberg, the site of Dietrich's birth
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Released album “I Couldn't Be So Annoyed”.
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Released album “For the Boys in the Backroom”.
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Released album “Das Lied Ist Aus”.
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Released album “Black Market”.
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Riva stated "I consider myself a biographer, not the daughter", and also labeled Dietrich as a "ephemeral creature that is beyond normalcy
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“There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. It's a quality... They’re so grateful, so heartbreakingly grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. They say thank you for coming, and they really mean it.”
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19915 items
Released album “Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Die großen Erfolge”.
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Released album “Live at the Café de Paris, London”.
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Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “The Essential Marlene Dietrich”.
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Released album “Marlène Dietrich : L’Ange bleu : Succès et raretés 1928–1933”.
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Released album “The Blue Angel”.
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Her appeal to save the Babelsberg Studios from closure was broadcast on BBC Radio
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1989).
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“Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem”
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Released album “The Marlene Dietrich Story”.
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19882 items
Released album “Idole”.
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Dietrich recorded spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg
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Awarded CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award (1986).
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19841 item
Released album “Disque d'or”.
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19831 item
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1983).
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Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, Marlene (1984), but refused to be filmed
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Awarded German Film Honorary Award (1980).
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19782 items
Released album “Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind”.
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Released album “Mythos Marlene Dietrich”.
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Despite remaining married to Sieber until his death in June 1976, Dietrich had numerous affairs, some short-lived, some lasting decades, often overlapping and almost all known to her husband, to whom she was in the habit of passing the intimate letters from her lovers, sometimes with biting comments.
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19731 item
Injured her left thigh, necessitating skin grafts to allow the wound to heal
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1971).
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Credited Bacharach with giving her the "inspiration" to perform during those years
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“Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?”
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And 1968) and received a Special Tony Award in 1968
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1965).
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Released album “Marlene Dietrich singt Berlin Berlin”.
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And suffered from poor circulation in her legs
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"in recognition for her courageous adherence to principle and consistent record of friendship for the Jewish people"
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19643 items
“What she does is neither difficult nor diverting, but the fact that she does it at all fills the onlookers with wonder ... It takes two to make a conjuring trick: the illusionist”
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Released album “Marlene Dietrich in London”.
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Released album “Die neue Marlene”.
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Released album “Dietrich in Rio: Recorded in Rio de Janeiro”.
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Her show at the Tuschinski in Amsterdam was broadcast live on Dutch radio
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For a concert tour received a mixed reception—despite a consistently negative press, vociferous protest by Germans who felt she had betrayed her homeland, and two bomb threats, her performance attracted huge crowds
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Released album “Wiedersehen mit Marlene: Marlene Dietrich in Deutschland”.
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Released ep “Marlene Dietrich I”.
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Dietrich was offered $30,000 ($280,000 in 2024) per week to appear live at the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip
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The French singer Édith Piaf was also one of Dietrich's closest friends during her stay in Paris in the 1950s, with Dietrich serving as Piaf's matron of honor at her wedding to Jacques Pills in 1952; there were rumors of something more than just friendship between them.
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Had her own series on American ABC entitled, Cafe Istanbul
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1950).
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For she desired that they live in New York and Gabin did not want to leave France
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Dietrich was dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother"
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When Maria gave birth to a son (John, later a famous production designer) in 1948, Dietrich was dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother".
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He was probably the love of her life, but the relationship ended in 1948, for she desired that they live in New York and Gabin did not want to leave France.
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Won Medal of Freedom (1947).
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The Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) initiated the Musak project, musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralize enemy soldiers
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And 1945, she performed for Allied troops in Algeria, Italy, the UK, France and Heerlen in the Netherlands, then entered Germany with Generals James M
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Became an American citizen and renounced her German citizenship
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In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor Jean Gabin.
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Dietrich met and began a relationship with writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor Jean Gabin
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Her entire salary for Knight Without Armor ($450,000) was put into escrow to help the refugees
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At the Monocle, a women's nightclub on Boulevard Edgar-Quinet in Paris
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In Paris, Dietrich had an affair with Suzanne Baulé, known as Frede, a coach and cabaret hostess whom she met in 1936 at the Monocle, a women's nightclub on Boulevard Edgar-Quinet in Paris.
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“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”
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On the strength of The Blue Angel's international success, and with encouragement and promotion from Josef von Sternberg, who was established in Hollywood, Dietrich moved to the United States under contract to Paramount
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When Dietrich arrived in Hollywood and filmed Morocco (1930), she had an affair with Gary Cooper, even though Cooper was himself having an affair with Mexican actress Lupe Vélez.
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Dietrich landed her breakthrough role of Lola Lola, a cabaret singer who caused the downfall of a hitherto respectable schoolmaster (played by Emil Jannings), in the UFA production of The Blue Angel (1930) shot at Babels
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Their only child, Maria Riva, was born in Berlin on 13 December 1924.
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In May 1923 Dietrich married assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who later became an assistant director at Paramount Pictures in France, responsible for foreign language dubbing.
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Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impresario Max Reinhardt's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas
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Studied at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (1918).
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But he died in August 1917 from wounds sustained during the First World War
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Born 1901-12-27.
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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Awarded AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars.
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Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit.
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Awarded Order of Leopold.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Studied at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Studied at Goethe Gymnasium.
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