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Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...
Marlene Dietrich was a sought-after star of the ‘30s and ’40s. (Eugene Robert Richee/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Hollywood took note, and a contract with Paramount Pictures followed.
Silver-screen star Marlene Dietrich was more than a pretty face and a set of legendary legs. “She made these really interesting decisions about self-representation, about image,” says Kate ...
The actress Marlene Dietrich played cabaret singers, spies, vamps, a prostitute and Catherine the Great. With a gift for reinvention that makes Madonna look like a poseur, Dietrich fascinated ...
Marlene Dietrich had one daughter, who was born in 1924, before Dietrich became a Hollywood sensation. Their relationship was troubled, and after Dietrich’s death in 1992 at the age of 90, her ...
Marlene Dietrich was 100%. Like Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich today is remembered by many for her beauty. But Dietrich's persona – cool, husky-voiced, at times androgynous – was always ...
Marlene Dietrich is celebrated as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous movie stars, but the Berlin-born actress preferred being on the front lines with troops fighting during World War II.
Oscar-winning actor John Wayne once told his wife, Pilar, that actor Marlene Dietrich was the 'most intriguing woman I've ever known.' by Jeff Nelson Published on August 8, 2022 ...
In ‘Marlene Dietrich: A Life,’ the icon’s daughter, Maria Riva, paints a damning portrait of the screen siren who raised her.
Instead, “Marlene Dietrich‘s ABCs” is a rollicking collection of aphorisms, one-liners, and haughtiness that ranges from “Sex: In America an obsession.
Berliners spit in Marlene Dietrich's grave before the film star was buried there 10 years ago, but yesterday the city made the Berlin native an honorary citizen. Sign up.
In the early days of World War II, Marlene Dietrich, one of the biggest stars to ever come out of Berlin, courageously chose to give up her German citizenship to help the Allied war effort.