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Marlene Dietrich

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1901-12-27

Deathday: 1992-05-06 (90 years old)

Biography

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer.

Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalized on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1937; during World War II, she was a high-profile front-line entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s through 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.

Filmography

all 117

Movies 111

self 48

TV Shows 6

Narrator 1

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marlene Dietrich

Biography

Filmography

all 117

Movies 111

self 48

TV Shows 6

Narrator 1

Phantom (2023)

Le Siècle des icônes (2022)

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022)

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir (2021)

Ernest Hemingway: 4 Weddings and a Funeral (2021)

Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné (2021)

Cher: In Her Own Words (2021)

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019)

Bodies and Spaces, Fabric and Light (2018)

Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017)

100 Years of the UFA (2017)

Becoming Cary Grant (2017)

Dietrich, Garbo, l'ange et la divine (2015)

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema (2014)

Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words (2013)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored (2013)

Marlene Dietrich - The Twilight of an Angel (2012)

Erich Maria Remarque, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard (2011)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

Amérique, notre histoire (2006)

Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2006)

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City (2005)

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova (2005)

Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' (2004)

The Ritchie Boys (2004)

Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)

Complicated Women (2003)

Falling in Love Again (2003)

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002)

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)

The Great Yiddish Love (2002)

Legenden (1998)

The Third Reich In Color (1998)

Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life (1997)

No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich (1996)

Marlene Dietrich: Shadows and Light (1996)

Inside the Dream Factory (1995)

The Casting Couch (1995)

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some (1994)

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)

The Meeting of Two Queens (1991)

Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking (1991)

Marlene (1984)

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Un sanglant symbole (1979)

Just a Gigolo (1978)

That's Action (1977)

I Wish You Love (1973)

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

The Love Goddesses (1965)

Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

The Monte Carlo Story (1956)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Tony Awards (1956)

Rancho Notorious (1952)

No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)

Stage Fright (1950)

Jigsaw (1949)

A Foreign Affair (1948)

Golden Earrings (1947)

The Room Upstairs (1946)

Kismet (1944)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1901-12-27

Deathday
1992-05-06 (90 years old)

Birth Name
Marie Magdalene Dietrich

Birth Place
Rote Insel, Germany

Height
168-centimeter

Relationships
Rudolf Sieber (1923 - 1976)

Children
Maria Riva

Father
Louis Erich Otto Dietrich

Mother
Wilhelmina Elisabeth Joséphine Felsing

Relatives
Georg Hugo Will

Citizenships
German Empire, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, United States of America

Also Known As
Marlena Dietrichová , მარლენ დიტრიხი, Marie Magdalene Dietrich , 玛琳·黛德丽, Marie Magdalene von Losch