Marlene Dietrich
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- | '''Marlene Dietrich''' ([[December 27]], [[1901]] – [[May 6]], [[1992]]) was a German-born [[actress]], [[singer]], and [[sex symbol]]. | + | '''Marlene Dietrich''' ([[December 27]], [[1901]] – [[May 6]], [[1992]]) was a German-born [[actress]], [[singer]], and [[sex symbol]], best known for her rendition of "[[Lili Marleen]]" and her "[[Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt]]". |
Throughout her long career, starting as a [[cabaret]] singer, [[chorus girl]] and film actress in [[1920s Berlin]], [[Hollywood]] movie star, [[World War II]] frontline entertainer and finally an international stage show performer, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment [[icons of the 20th century]]. | Throughout her long career, starting as a [[cabaret]] singer, [[chorus girl]] and film actress in [[1920s Berlin]], [[Hollywood]] movie star, [[World War II]] frontline entertainer and finally an international stage show performer, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment [[icons of the 20th century]]. |
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Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born actress, singer, and sex symbol, best known for her rendition of "Lili Marleen" and her "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt".
Throughout her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, Hollywood movie star, World War II frontline entertainer and finally an international stage show performer, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century.
Filmography
- Love Tragedy (1923)
- The Little Napoleon (1923)
- Man by the Wayside (1923)
- Leap Into Life (1924)
- Dance Mad (1925)
- The Bogus Baron (1926)
- Manon Lescaut (1926)
- Madame Doesn't Want Children (1926)
- A Modern DuBarry (1927)
- Chin Up, Charley! (1927)
- His Greatest Bluff (1927)
- Cafe Electric (1927)
- Princess Olala (1928)
- Dangers of the Engagement Period (1929)
- I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929)
- The Woman One Longs For (1929)
- The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
- The Blue Angel (1930)
- Morocco (1930)
- Dishonored (1931)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- Blonde Venus (1932)
- The Song of Songs (1933)
- The Scarlet Empress (1934)
- The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935) (short subject)
- The Devil is a Woman (1935)
- I Loved a Soldier (1936) (unfinished)
- Desire (1936)
- The Garden of Allah (1936)
- Knight Without Armour (1937)
- Angel (1937)
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Seven Sinners (1940)
- The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
- Manpower (1941)
- The Lady Is Willing (1942)
- The Spoilers (1942)
- Pittsburgh (1942)
- Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
- Follow the Boys (1944)
- Kismet (1944)
- Martin Roumagnac (1946)
- Golden Earrings (1947)
- A Foreign Affair (1948)
- Jigsaw (1949) (cameo)
- Stage Fright (1950)
- No Highway in the Sky (1951)
- Rancho Notorious (1952)
- The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (cameo)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962) (documentary) (narrator)
- Paris, When It Sizzles (1964) (cameo)
- An Evening With Marlene Dietrich (I Wish You Love) (1972) London concert film
- Just a Gigolo (1979)
- Marlene (1984) (documentary) (Dietrich insisted that director Maximilian Schell record only her voice and not film her or her face)
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