According to daughter Maria Riva, Dietrich had a long-standing dislike of actress Loretta Young.
Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.
Born at 9:15pm-CET
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.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#60). [1995]
Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.
First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.
Grandmother of production designer J. Michael Riva.
Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 mio. German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.
Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.
Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.
In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.
Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.
Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue"
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.
Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.
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.