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Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich (/mɑrˈleɪnəˈdiːtrɪk/, German pronunciation: [maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç]; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and garnered her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express (1932) and Desire (1936) capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest-paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a U.S. citizen in 1939, and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of all time. 

Full Name Marlene Dietrich
Net Worth $10 Million
Date Of Birth December 27, 1901
Died 1992-05-06
Place Of Birth Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Height 5′ 4½” (1.64 m)
Profession Soundtrack, Actress, Music Department
Education Viktoria-Suisen-Schule, Auguste-Viktoria Girls School
Spouse Rudolf Sieber
Children Maria Riva
Parents Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine Dietrich, Louis Erich Otto Dietrich
Siblings Elisabeth Dietrich
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000017
Awards Special Tony Award, David di Donatello Special Award, German Film Award – Honorary Award
Nominations Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama
Movies The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, The Scarlet Empress, Witness for the Prosecution, Blonde Venus, The Devil Is a Woman, A Foreign Affair, Morocco, Dishonored, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg, Rancho Notorious, Stage Fright, Knight Without Armour, Seven Sinners, The Garden of…
Trademark
1 Her signature scent was Bandit by Robert Piguet
2 Aura of glamour and luxury
3 Her legs
4 Wearing tuxedoes, men’s hats, and men’s tailored suits
5 Low and sensual voice
Title Salary
Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978) $250,000
I Wish You Love (1973) $200,000
Touch of Evil (1958) $7,500
Stage Fright (1950) £70,000
Golden Earrings (1947) $100,000
Pittsburgh (1942) $100,000
The Lady Is Willing (1942) $100,000
Seven Sinners (1940) $150,000
Destry Rides Again (1939) $75,000
Knight Without Armour (1937) $450,000
The Garden of Allah (1936) $200,000
Blonde Venus (1932) $125,000
Dishonored (1931) $125,000
Quote
1 [1969] Success in America means a lot to a man and it means a lot to his wife and family. There is a general belief that success is synonymous with happiness. Well, it doesn’t, as you know, they don’t go together at all. The American is striving for success and works much too hard in order to get, whatever, a little more money or a raise or something. He loses out on all the pleasures of life because of that. In Europe they have a car, they have it 15 years and they polish it and they wash it and they love it but here people don’t love their cars because they know next year they are going to get another one. And then everything is on credit. They don’t own it and then you buy many more things than you need because it’s on credit and it doesn’t bring them happiness. It just doesn’t. Possessions do not make you happy.
2 [1960s, when asked about the secret of her success] Secret? No secret at all. I work hard, that is all. People say that I have some sort of “quality” – well, maybe I have. How am I to know that? All I know is that I walk onto a stage, stand still, and sing. I think it is Dietrich the woman they like – rather than Dietrich the singer. They pay to see me for what I am.
3 [1969] I think if you have any sort of intelligence you can’t succumb to adoration because people adore so many things. They also adore things that you think quite worthless so you can’t take it too seriously.
4 [on her appeal among audiences] It is not nostalgia. Three-quarters of my audience are young people who cannot possibly be nostalgic simply because the mood I create is of a period most of them have not lived in. Besides, the songs that seem to go down best are the newer ones – that is, when I can find new songs good enough to sing.
5 You can be good in a play that is bad and the whole thing flops. It is just not worth the effort or the heartbreak. I am not a brave or courageous woman. I prefer to do what I know is safe.
6 [1969] America has a youth complex. In particular with me, they adore to make me older and I don’t see why they should do that because it’s bad enough as it is, but maybe it looks better in print if I’m a hundred and two and I still walk on the stage and I’m not on crutches. It becomes rather thick but youth cult is quite bad. You don’t have that in Europe at all because I think it is because America still thinks that it’s a young nation. I don’t think it is. It should stop that. I think they have been young long enough. They should grow up.
7 [1969] This secret of all performing is that you have to be able to concentrate at such an extent that everybody who is listening to you has no other thoughts. It’s particularly difficult with songs because I sing in many different languages and all the people don’t understand what I’m saying. You still have to keep them in trance and I’m really happy that I’m able to do that.
8 I do not change my face for my public. I have not tried to create an image or a myth about myself; I am as quiet and placid off-stage as I am when the bright lights are on me. No temperaments, no periods of dark, gloomy despair and pessimism. I am easy-going and the only thing I cannot stand is stupidity – in any form.
9 [1960s, when asked what she would do if she inherited a couple of million pounds the following day] What would I do? I’d retire. On the spot. No more work. I have an awful lot of private life to catch up on, which, at this rate, I don’t think will be possible. When you’re in the public eye as conspicuously as I am, it is conceivable to maintain a private life – but the trouble is you can only devote half your time to it. My private life, which no one knows anything about, nor ever will, needs more than just half my time if it is to be a success.
10 [1969, on attitude] I do think it’s rather stupid to be nonchalant. I think one should be full of enthusiasm for everything that happens if one considers it to be worthy of enthusiasm.
11 [1963, when asked why, at age 61, she continued to act] For the money. What else for?
12 [1960s, when asked if the tag “sex goddess” annoyed her] You mean like Marilyn Monroe? I’m no sex goddess and I never have been. Not in the ’30s – and not now. And I don’t get annoyed, no, simply because one comes to expect people to confuse glamour with sex, which is a different thing altogether. This is the price one pays for being famous.
13 I am a unique performer and my audience realize this. I mean, who else is there doing what I am doing today?
14 Stupid people annoy me. There are fans of mine who worship and idolize me, and who are in awe of me. They are stupid people. Who am I to be held in awe? What have I accomplished? If one is to be in awe of anyone, let it be a doctor or a brilliant scientist. Not a performer. I could never be friends with anyone who is stupid enough to worship me.
15 [1969] I’ve always liked Texas because I met all the Texans in the war, 36th division. We always adored them because they were so terribly conceited being Texans. When they took a little village and set up school, they told everybody that Texas was the capital of the United States.
16 [on English audiences] They are marvelous and warm. People say the English are so unemotional, but this is untrue. At least I never find them so. To me, they are the most emotional, and also the most un-phoney people I know. And as I am that way too we get along just fine together. I think also the English like me because they know that I do not take myself seriously, and that the whole thing is a joke, and that I am laughing at myself all the time. And when I laugh, they laugh. This is fun. We understand each other so well.
17 [1969] I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that.
18 [on her life as a star] Do you think this is glamorous? That this is a great life, and that I do it for my health? Well, it isn’t. It’s hard work. And who would work if they didn’t have to? I work because I pay away in taxes to the American Government 88 cents out of each dollar I earn. Everybody in America works today. You have to. Oh – know, I could live tucked away out of sight in some Swiss chalet – but why should I? I am an American citizen, and proud to be so. I enjoy living in that country and one pays for one’s pleasures. So I work. And as long as people want me, and I have them eating out of my hands, I shall continue to do so.
19 [1969, when asked if she thought the nature of love had changed over the years] I think the real love has not changed at all. If people call all sorts of relationships love, they know themselves it isn’t so but they say it in order to make it valuable. In order to make it allowed. You know, when a girl says, but I love him, in order to say that’s why I live with him. That’s not necessarily so because the real love has not changed and the one great love that will never change is mother love.
20 [1969, when asked how she relaxes] I don’t think I do. You see in our language, in German or in French, there is no such word as relax. This is an American invention. We don’t have a feeling like the American has, now it’s 07:00 or something and I have to have a drink and relax. It’s not a necessity in Europe. He drinks because he likes to drink.
21 Magazines – the biggest myth creators of all! You must never, ever read American magazines. And if you’re sitting in a waiting room and can’t help it – don’t believe a word of any of them.
22 [1969] Surely I’m anti-war. I don’t think there’s anybody that is for war – I mean women. Maybe generals are for war. Professional soldiers might be, I don’t know. But I have never found a woman who is for war and naturally I’m against war. I think if you’re being attacked you have to have answer back, you must defend yourself… I’m against war that goes and fights in some unknown land. I’m against that very much.
23 [during the war] [Adolf Hitler] is an idiot.
24 [after returning to West Germany in 1960] The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
25 Ernest Hemingway is the most positive life force I have ever encountered. I hate anything negative, and I hate waste. In Hemingway, nothing is wasted.
26 [on her preference for trousers] They are so comfortable. It takes too much time to be a well-dressed woman. I have watched others. Bags, shoes, hats. They must think of them all the time. I cannot waste that time.
27 [on Orson Welles] When I talk with him, I feel like a tree that has been watered.
28 [on audiences at her nightclub performances] They spoil you. They love you. Of course, I do a different kind of show in Las Vegas. They want more emphasis on sex. In London and the rest of Europe I can sing French and German songs, as well as English. There’s more scope for me. But I enjoy nightclub work, wherever it is.
29 [when Paramount bought the rights to the book, ‘Mommie Dearest’] I am shocked that Paramount bought that filthy book and made the frightful bitch who wrote it rich, and that rhymes. I did not know Joan Crawford but nobody deserves that kind of slaughter. Too bad she did not leave her where she found her, so she could now spit her poison in the slums of some big city. I hate her with a passion and I know the public will.
30 [on reading] I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.
31 ]on Rock Hudson] He was one of the gentlest, kindest men in Hollywood–and all those journalists should burn in Hell for the bile they printed about him when he died.
32 If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
33 In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
34 Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
35 The diaphragm is the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup.
36 [on Orson Welles] You should cross yourself when you say his name.
37 [In 1972, about Liza Minnelli] I’m annoyed when people keep comparing her to her mother [Judy Garland]. She’s nothing to do with her mother. She’s a completely different woman. The film Cabaret (1972) is a great hit for her and that’s all one wants.
38 [on Cary Grant] The champion.
39 The legs aren’t so beautiful. I just know what to do with them.
40 [on Hildegard Knef] She’s Mother Courage.
41 [on Anna Magnani] A force of nature.
42 Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
43 Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain.
44 I was an actress. I made films. Finish.
45 I never ever took my career seriously.
46 There is a lack of dignity to film stardom.
47 The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
48 I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all.
49 Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
50 [on Loretta Young] Every time she “sins”, she builds a church. That’s why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood.
51 Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can’t live with a woman!
52 I’m not an actress — I’m a personality.
53 Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman’s age, but you can’t fool a flight of stairs.
54 When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
55 I am at heart, a gentleman
56 Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
57 The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
58 To be completely a woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
59 A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
60 In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.
61 [in 1964] I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
62 I never enjoyed working in a film.
63 I am not a myth.
64 [on The Blue Angel (1930), German-language version of The Blue Angel (1930)] I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here [at my groin]. I was so young and dumb.
Fact
1 The original “One Touch of Venus” Broadway musical production opened at the Imperial Theatre on October 7, 1943, closed on February 10, 1945 after 567 performances. “One Touch of Venus” with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, directed by Ilia Kazan, featured choreography by Agnes de Mille, starred Mary Martin, Kenny Baker and Paula Laurence. The role of Venus was to have starred Marlene Dietrich. Reportedly Dietrich backed out of the title role during rehearsals, calling it “too sexy and profane,” which gave Mary Martin the opportunity to establish herself as a Broadway star. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values, artistic fads and romantic and sexual mores. Weill had been in America for eight years by the time he wrote this musical, and his music, though retaining his early haunting power, had evolved into a very different Broadway style. The book musical by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash was based on the novella “The Tinted Venus” by Thomas Amstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth.
2 Noël Coward (1899-1973) and Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992), the German-born American film and cabaret star, had become, and remained, close friends since their first conversation – by transatlantic telephone – in 1935.
3 Became pregnant in 1938 as a result of an affair with James Stewart during the filming of Destry Rides Again (1939) but she underwent an abortion. Stewart did not even know she was pregnant.
4 She turned down the role of Charlie in Station West (1948). The part went to Jane Greer.
5 Berlin has a street, Marlene Dietrich Platz.
6 Campaigned for the role of Mama Hanson in I Remember Mama (1948) but Irene Dunne, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.
7 Was considered for the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) after Claudette Colbert was forced to pull out of the project due to back injury. However the part was given to Bette Davis, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.
8 Lived out her life in apartment #12E at 993 Park Avenue in Manhattan where Jamie Lee Curtis had earlier stayed with then fiance J. Michael Riva (Dietrich’s grandson) during the Trading Places (1983) shoot.
9 Grandmother of production designer J. Michael Riva.
10 Interviewed in “Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember” by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
11 In Italian films, she was dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi, Tina Lattanzi or Andreina Pagnani.
12 According to daughter Maria Riva, Dietrich had a long-standing dislike of actress Loretta Young.
13 She spent her last decade in her apartment on the avenue Montaigne in Paris, during which time she was not seen in public but was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. In 1984, Academy Award winning actor Maximilian Schell persuaded her to be interviewed for a documentary, but she did not appear on screen.
14 Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna’s song “Vogue”
15 First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.
16 Was named #9 Actress on The AFI 50 Greatest Screen Legends
17 Won a Special Tony Award in 1968.
18 She was voted the 43rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
19 Proficient on the musical saw.
20 The only show-business friend she ever had was Mae West. However, they never saw one another outside the Paramount lot.
21 She thought of feet to be the ugliest part of the human body, and therefore always tried to hide them in one way or another
22 Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
23 Ten years after her death, Berlin – the city of Dietrich’s birth which she shunned for most of her life – declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city’s legislature bestowed honor on her as “an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany.” The declaration hoped this “would symbolize the city of Berlin’s reconciliation with her.”
24 Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.
25 Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.
26 Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.
27 She prided herself on the fact that she had slept with three men of the Kennedy clan – Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and John F. Kennedy.
28 She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.
29 In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.
30 Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.
31 Never worked without a mirror on the set so she could constantly check her makeup and hair.
32 She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.
33 Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.
34 Marlene’s father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI.
35 Gave birth to her only child at age 22, a daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber (aka Maria Riva) on December 13, 1924. Child’s father was her husband, Rudolf Sieber.
36 Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#60). [1995]
37 Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.
38 Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 million German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.
39 Born at 9:15pm-CET
40 Was made a Chevaliere of the Legion by France.
41 Received the U.S. War Department’s ‘Medal of Freedom’, in 1947, for entertaining American troops in WWII and her strong stand against Naziism.

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Personal Shopper 2016 performer: “Das Hobellied”
My First Apartamento: JD Samson 2016 Documentary short performer: “Symphonie d’Amour”
Whoever Was Using This Bed 2016 Short performer: “You Do Something To Me”
Enas Allos Kosmos 2015 performer: “You Do Something To Me”
Chico: Artista Brasileiro 2015 Documentary performer: “Falling in Love Again”
A Perfect Day 2015 performer: “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”, “ONE FOR THE ROAD”
Gotham 2014-2015 TV Series performer – 2 episodes
Danny Says 2015 Documentary performer: “Boys in the Backroom”
Stars of the Silver Screen 2013 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Skwerl 2011 Video short performer: “Cherche la Rose”
Codebreaker 2011 TV Movie documentary performer: “Lili Marlene”
Memòries de la tele 2009 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Giovinezza 2009 Short performer: “Lili Marlene”
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical 2008 Video documentary performer: “You’re the Cream in My Coffee”, “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt” – uncredited
The War 2007 TV Mini-Series documentary performer – 1 episode
Dancing Dog 2004 Short performer: “You Do Something to Me”
Get Up, Stand Up 2003 TV Series documentary performer – 1 episode
How to Draw a Bunny 2002 Documentary performer: “Awake In A Dream”
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song 2001 Documentary performer: “Lili Marlene”, “Wenn die Beste Freundin”, “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”, “You’re the Cream in My Coffee”, “Ich bin die fesche Lola”, “Quand l’amour meurt”, “Awake In a Dream”, “Another Spring, Another Love”, “The Boys in the Back Room”, “The Man’s in the Navy”, “Look Me Over Closely”, “You Little So-And-So”, “Illusions”, “White Grass”, “I May Never Go Home Anymore”, “Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind”, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”, “Du, Du Liegst Mir Im H
Transfixed 2001 performer: “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”, “Jonny”
The Anniversary Party 2001 performer: “I May Never Go Home Anymore”
Nuremberg 2000 TV Mini-Series performer: “I Never Slept a Wink Last Night”
Paragraph 175 2000 Documentary performer: “Falling in Love Again”
Fight Club 1999 performer: “No Love, No Nothin'”
Breaking Up 1997 performer: “COME RAIN OR COME SHINE”
Heaven’s Burning 1997 performer: “ANOTHER SPRING, ANOTHER LOVE”
Une femme d’honneur 1996 TV Series performer – 1 episode
The Delicate Art of the Rifle 1996 performer: “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”, “Blowing In The Wind”
El detective y la muerte 1994 performer: “I’ve Been in Love Before” – as Marlène Dietrich
Scenes from a Mall 1991 performer: “You Do Something to Me”
Berliner Tag 1989 performer: “LILI MARLEN”
Judgment in Berlin 1988 performer: “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”
Kintopp Kintopp 1981 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Just a Gigolo 1978 performer: “Just A Gigolo”
La jeune fille assassinée 1974 performer: “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”, “Ich bin die fesche Lola”
The Mother and the Whore 1973 performer: “Falling in Love Again”
Myra Breckinridge 1970 performer: “The Man’s in the Navy” – uncredited
Magic of Marlene 1968 TV Movie performer: “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”, “You’re The Cream In My Coffee”, “My Blue Heaven”, “See What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have”, “The Laziest Gal In Town”, “When The World Was Young”, “Jonny”, “Go ‘Way From My Window”, “White Grass”, “Boomerang Baby”, “La Vie en Rose”, “Naughty Lola”, “Frag Nicht Warum Ich Gehe”, “Lili Marlene”, “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?”, “Falling In Love Again”
The Love Goddesses 1965 Documentary performer: “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”, “Quand l’amour meurt” – uncredited
Katharina Knie – Ein Seiltänzerstück 1964 TV Movie performer: “Auf der Mundharmonika”
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963 TV Movie documentary performer: “Falling in Love Again” aka “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt” – uncredited
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 performer: “Lili Marleen” – uncredited
Witness for the Prosecution 1957 performer: “I May Never Go Home Anymore”
The Montecarlo Story 1956 performer: “Les Jeux Sont Faits”, “Indiana” uncredited
I Am a Camera 1955 performer: “Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin”
Der Fürst von Pappenheim 1952 performer: “wer wird denn weinen,wenn mann auseinander geht”
Rancho Notorious 1952 performer: “Get Away Young Man”
Stage Fright 1950 performer: “The Laziest Gal in Town” 1950 uncredited, “La Vie en Rose”, “Love Is Lyrical Whisper Sweet Little Nothing to Me” 1950 uncredited
A Foreign Affair 1948 performer: “Black Market”, “Illusions”, “The Ruins of Berlin” – uncredited
The Secret Heart 1946 performer: “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”
Kismet 1944 performer: “Tell Me, Tell Me, Evening Star” 1944 – uncredited
The Lady Is Willing 1942 performer: “I Find Love”
Manpower 1941 performer: “He Lied and I Listened” 1941
The Flame of New Orleans 1941 performer: “Sweet Is the Blush of May”
Seven Sinners 1940 performer: “I’ve Been in Love Before” 1940, “The Man’s in the Navy” 1940, “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” 1928 uncredited
Destry Rides Again 1939 performer: “See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have” 1939, “You’ve Got That Look” 1939, “Little Joe, the Wrangler” 1939 – uncredited
Angel 1937 performer: “Angel” 1937
Desire 1936 performer: “Awake in a Dream”
The Devil Is a Woman 1935 performer: “Three Sweethearts Have I”
Regine 1935 performer: “You Have Taken My Soul”
Ihr größter Erfolg 1934 performer: “Hobellied”
March of the Movies 1933 performer: “Falling in Love Again”
The Song of Songs 1933 performer: “Heideroslein”, “Jonny” – uncredited
Blonde Venus 1932 performer: “Hot Voodoo”, “You Little So-and-So”, “I Couldn’t Be Annoyed”
Stürme der Leidenschaft 1932 performer: “Ich weiß nicht, zu wem ich gehöhre”
Dishonored 1931 “Donauwellen Danube Waves” / performer: “Sonata No.14 in C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight'”
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht 1931 performer: “Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte…”
Morocco 1930 performer: “Quand l’amour meurt” 1904, “What Am I Bid for My Apple?” 1930 – uncredited
The Blue Angel 1930 performer: “Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt”, “Ich bin die fesche Lola”, “Nimm Dich in Acht vor blonden Frau’n”, “Kinder, heut’ abend, da such’ ich mir was aus” – uncredited
Why Cry at Parting? 1929 performer: “Wer wird denn weinen wenn man auseinander geht”

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Just a Gigolo 1978 Baroness von Semering
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Mrs. Bertholt
Touch of Evil 1958 Tana
Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Christine
The Montecarlo Story 1956 Maria de Crevecoeur
Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Barbary Coast Saloon Owner
Rancho Notorious 1952 Altar Keane
No Highway in the Sky 1951 Monica Teasdale
Stage Fright 1950 Charlotte Inwood
Jigsaw 1949 Nightclub Patron (cameo appearance) (uncredited)
A Foreign Affair 1948 Erika Von Schluetow
Golden Earrings 1947 Lydia
The Room Upstairs 1946 Blanche Ferrand – une grainetière intrigante
Kismet 1944 Jamilla
Follow the Boys 1944 Marlene Dietrich
Pittsburgh 1942 Josie Winters
The Spoilers 1942 Cherry Malotte
The Lady Is Willing 1942 Elizabeth ‘Liza’ Madden
Manpower 1941 Fay Duval
The Flame of New Orleans 1941 Claire Ledeux
Seven Sinners 1940 Bijou
Destry Rides Again 1939 Frenchy
Angel 1937 Maria ‘Angel’ Barker, aka Mrs. Brown
Knight Without Armor 1937 Alexandra
I Loved a Soldier 1936 Anna Sedlak
The Garden of Allah 1936 Domini Enfilden
Desire 1936 Madeleine de Beaupre
The Devil Is a Woman 1935 Concha Perez
The Scarlet Empress 1934 Princess Sophia Frederica Catherine II
The Song of Songs 1933 Lily Czepanek
Blonde Venus 1932 Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
Shanghai Express 1932 Shanghai Lily
Dishonored 1931 Marie Kolverer / X27
The Blue Angel 1930 Lola Lola
Morocco 1930 Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
The Blue Angel 1930 Lola Lola
Dangers of the Engagement 1930 Evelyne
The Ship of Lost Men 1929 Ethel Marley
Three Loves 1929 Stascha
I Kiss Your Hand Madame 1929 Laurence Gerard / Lucille (U.S. prints)
Art of Love 1928 Chichotte de Gastoné
Café Elektric 1927 Erni Göttlinger – ein flatterhaftes Mädchen
Sein größter Bluff 1927 Yvette
Kopf hoch, Charly! 1927 Edmée Marchand
Der Juxbaron 1927 Sophie, ihre Tochter
A Modern Du Barry 1927 Kokotte
Madame Doesn’t Want Children 1926 Dancer (uncredited)
Manon Lescaut 1926 Micheline
Dance Fever 1925 Dance extra
Der Sprung ins Leben 1924 Mädchen am Strand
Der Mönch von Santarem 1924
Love Tragedy 1923 Lucy
Man by the Roadside 1923 Krämerstochter
So sind die Männer 1923 Kathrin
Im Schatten des Glücks 1919 unconfirmed

Music Department

Title Year Status Character
Aquile senza corona 2011 opening theme singer

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
S1m0ne 2002 Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone

Self

Title Year Status Character
Marlene 1984 Documentary Herself (voice)
An Evening with Marlene Dietrich 1973 Documentary Herself
Magic of Marlene 1968 TV Movie Herself
The 22nd Annual Tony Awards 1968 TV Special Herself – Special Tony Award Recipient
BBC Show of the Week 1966 TV Series Herself
Paris When It Sizzles 1964 Herself, entering store (uncredited)
The Royal Variety Performance 1963 1963 TV Movie Herself
Deutsche Schlagerfestival 1963 1963 TV Movie Singer
Gala de l’union 1963 TV Series Herself
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler 1962 Documentary Narrator (voice)
Memo for Joe 1944 Short documentary Herself
Show-Business at War 1943 Documentary short Herself
Breakdowns of 1942 1942 Short Herself (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 1937 Documentary short Herself
The Fashion Side of Hollywood 1935 Documentary short Herself
Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 1933 Short Herself
Die glückliche Mutter 1928 Documentary short Herself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
That’s Action 1977 Documentary Herself
All You Need Is Love 1977 TV Series documentary Herself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime 1975 Documentary
Triumph Over Violence 1965 Documentary Herself
The Love Goddesses 1965 Documentary Herself
The Judy Garland Show 1964 TV Series Herself
Hollywood and the Stars 1964 TV Series Herself
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963 TV Movie documentary Herself (uncredited)
The DuPont Show of the Week 1961 TV Series Herself
Das kommt nicht wieder 1958 Documentary Herself
It Only Happened Once 1958 Herself, Marlene Dietrich
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood’s Greatest Comedians 1953 Documentary short Herself
March of the Movies 1933 Herself (film clip from ‘Der Blaue Engel”)
Un Français nommé Gabin 2017 TV Movie documentary Herself
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2015 TV Movie documentary Herself
Duels 2015 TV Series documentary
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen 2014 Documentary Herself
Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2014 TV Movie documentary Lola Lola (uncredited)
From Gold to Containers, from Salt to Empires 2014 Video Herself
Stars of the Silver Screen 2013 TV Series Herself
Duelle 2013 TV Series documentary Herself
Arena 2012 TV Series documentary
Not Fade Away 2012 Tana in Touch of Evil (uncredited)
Vito 2011 Documentary
Memòries de la tele 2010 TV Series Herself
L’Occupation sans relâche – Les artistes pendant la guerre 2010 TV Movie documentary Herself
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff 2010 Documentary Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
Apocalypse: La 2ème guerre mondiale 2009 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself
American Masters 2009 TV Series documentary Shanghai Lily
Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood 2009 TV Movie documentary Herself
Strictly Courtroom 2008 TV Movie documentary Christine Helm (uncredited)
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema 2007 Documentary Herself
Amérique, notre histoire 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself
Unsere Besten 2003-2006 TV Series Various roles / Herself
The Best of the Royal Variety 2006 TV Series Herself
Private Screenings 2006 TV Series Helen Faraday / Helen Jones – ‘Blonde Venus’
Billy Wilder Speaks 2006 TV Movie documentary Herself
Ciclo Agatha Christie 2006 TV Series documentary Herself
American Experience 2004-2005 TV Series documentary Herself
Filmlegenden. Deutsch 2005 TV Movie documentary Herself
Legendary Sin Cities 2005 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself – Actress
The Ritchie Boys 2004 Documentary Herself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel 2004 Video documentary short Herself – At the premiere
Get Up, Stand Up 2003 TV Series documentary Herself
Complicated Women 2003 TV Movie documentary Herself (uncredited)
Falling in Love Again 2003 Short Vocalist
Prisoner of Paradise 2002 Documentary
The Nightclub Years 2001 TV Special documentary Herself
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song 2001 Documentary Herself
Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman 2001 TV Mini-Series Herself
Biography 1998-2001 TV Series documentary Herself
Hitlers Frauen 2001 TV Series documentary Herself
Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts 2001 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself
Marlene Dietrich and Joseph von Sternberg 2000 TV Short documentary Herself
Paragraph 175 2000 Documentary Herself (uncredited)
Das Dritte Reich – In Farbe 1998 TV Movie documentary Herself
Sharon Stone – Una mujer de 100 caras 1998 TV Movie documentary Herself (uncredited)
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory 1998 TV Movie documentary uncredited
Legenden 1998 TV Series documentary Herself
The Real Las Vegas 1996 TV Series documentary Herself
Marlene Dietrich: Shadow and Light 1996 TV Movie documentary Herself
Great Performances 1996 TV Series Herself
Inside the Dream Factory 1995 TV Movie documentary Herself
Get Shorty 1995 Tanya (uncredited)
The Celluloid Closet 1995 Documentary Nightclub Performer in Tuxedo (uncredited)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995 TV Movie documentary Herself
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood 1995 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself in screen test / Lola Lola
The Casting Couch 1995 Video documentary
That’s Entertainment! III 1994 Documentary Performer in Clip from ‘Kismet’ (uncredited)
Cinegrafias 1994 Documentary short Herself
Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl 1993 Documentary Herself
Dos reinas 1993 Documentary short Herself
Only in Hollywood 1991 TV Series documentary Herself
Nylon blues 1991 Documentary
The Dietrich Songs 1990 Documentary Herself
Hollywood Mavericks 1990 Documentary Lydia
Durch dich wird diese Welt erst schön, ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte des deutschen Schlagers 1989 TV Series documentary Herself
Entertaining the Troops 1988 Documentary Herself
Going Hollywood: The ’30s 1984 Documentary Herself
Étoiles et toiles 1983 TV Series documentary
Sixty Years of Seduction 1981 TV Movie documentary Herself
Kintopp Kintopp 1981 TV Series Lola Lola
Il était une fois: Le gala de l’union des artistes 1980 TV Movie documentary Herself
Bob Hope’s Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops – 1941-1972 1980 TV Movie documentary Herself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1980 Honorary Award German Film Awards For her continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years.
1962 Special David David di Donatello Awards Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 8 February 1960. At 6400 Hollywood Blvd.

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1958 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Motion Picture Actress – Drama Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
1931 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Actress in a Leading Role Morocco (1930)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1958 Golden Laurel Laurel Awards Top Female Dramatic Performance Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

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