Marlene Dietrich is one of very few film stars whose career not only spanned 60+ years but who also enjoyed icon status for most of those years. Her life in film began in the early 1920s with silent pictures. It came to a close with Maximillian Schell's 1984 Oscar-nominated doc read more
Marlene Dietrich(27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992), was born in Schöneberg, Germany. She was the younger of two daughters of Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine Felsing. Dietrich's mother was from a well-to-do family who owned a clock making company and her father was a read more
Marlene Dietrich, first film performance was playing a bit part in the 1922 film, So sind die Männer (1922). She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of another film made that year, Tragödie der Liebe.
Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna througho read more
Marlene Dietrich overcame her limited vocal range with the one-two punch of boundless confidence and a visible enjoyment of performance. Any other actress would look goofy emerging from a gorilla costume and plopping a blonde afro wig on their head, as Dietrich does in the Hot Voodoo numbe read more
Here’s Marlene Dietrich singing See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have in the comedy western, Destry Rides Again (1939). This was an important role for Dietrich, because it brought her career back to life after she’d suffered the indignity of the “box office poison read more
Marlene Dietrich, Astrology
"Astrology! Of course. After all, everyone knows that the moon pulls the sea away from the land, and farmers don't plant when the moon is wrong. "Why should humans escape?"- Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was influenced by astrology. She followed her own horos read more
