Marlene Dietrich
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PERSONAL DATA OF MARLENE DIETRICH
Born in: SCHOENBERG, Berlin (Germany)
Born on: 27/12/1901
He dies at: PARIS (France)
He dies on: 06/05/1992
BIOGRAPHY OF MARLENE DIETRICH
Actress. Daughter of military police officer Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Elisabeth Josephine Felsing. Her father dies when she is eleven and her mother remarries Eduard von Losch, a cavalry lieutenant. who adopts it. Lover of music, he plays the violin and the piano discreetly and in 1921 he enrolled at the Max Reinhardt Academy to study acting. Until the late 1920s he successfully worked in cabaret and at the same time got small parts in the cinema. In 1930 Joseph von Sternberg decides to have her interpret the role of singer Lola Lola in the film “The Blue Angel” (Der Blaue Angel). The premiere of the film takes place on April 1st at the Gloria Palast on Berlin’s Kufüstendamm and marks the beginning of the Dietrich myth. The sound highlights his raucous and sensual voice that fascinates the audience as his already famous legs. The actress becomes the symbol of a mysterious, carnal femininity, but at the same time ironic and cheeky, Hollywood calls her and gets a contract with Paramount who at that time was looking for an actress to counteract the divine Garbo of MGM. Between ’30 and ’35 she shoots six films with Sternberg, of which she becomes the lover in the meantime despite the fact that in ’24 she married Rudolf Sieber and had a daughter, Maria, born in ’25. With her first American film, “Morocco” alongside Gary Cooper, she gets an Oscar nomination and becomes the highest paid actress of her time. In 1937 she became an American citizen and during World War II she toured Europe and North Africa to entertain US troops (for this she was awarded the Medal of Freedom). Goebbels repeatedly invites her to return to Hitler’s Germany, but she refuses and, given her anti-Nazi activities, in 1950 France confers on her the Legion of Honor. In the 1950s, her film engagements became increasingly rare and the actress devoted herself to the theater with song recitals in Las Vegas, Broadway and Paris. His last appearance on the big screen was in 1979 in “Gigolò” (Schöner Gigolo – Armer Gigolo) by David Hammings. During his last live performance he breaks his leg from a fall from the stage probably due to his dedication to alcohol. Thus she spends her last thirteen years confined to the house, far from the life of society, but always in contact with her friends around the world via telephone or letters. Maximilian Schell, shoots with her “Marlene”, a long documentary about editing through film fragments with an off-screen interview, released in 1984. She dies on May 6, 1992. She is buried at the Friedhof III cemetery in Berlin, next to her mother . Her daughter Maria Riva sold all her documents, diaries, letters and mementos to the Berlin City Hall and in 1993 she published a merciless biography of the actress entitled “Marlene: an intimate memoir”. Dietrich herself wrote two books: “Marlene Dietrich ABC” (Italian title: The devil is a woman, dictionary of good manners and bad thoughts) in 1961 and an autobiography, “My life story” in 1979. She never divorced by her husband although the two only lived together for the first five years of marriage.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY MARLENE DIETRICH
MARLENE DIETRICH – HER OWN SONGS
Role: Actor
Year: 2001
Gigolo (SCHONER GIGOLO, ARMER GIGOLO)
Role: Actor
Year: 1979
Winners and losers (Judgment at Nuremberg)
Role: Actor
Year: 1961
Infernal Quinlan (TOUCH OF EVIL)
Role: Actor
Year: 1958 Go to the Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF MARLENE DIETRICH
Drama: 40% Comedy: 15% Adventure: 13% Sentimental: 8%
RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY MARLENE DIETRICH
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Gigolo | Baroness Von Semeri |
Winners and losers | Mrs. Bertholt |
The hellish Quinlan | Tanya |
Witness for the prosecution | Christine Vole |
Montecarlo | Marquise Maria de Crèvecoeur |
Rancho Notorius | Altar Keane |
Fear on stage | Charlotte Inwood |
International scandal | Erika Von Schlnetow |
LOVE TURBINES | Blanche Ferrand |
The ship of death | Herself |
THE LADY AGREES | Elizabeth Madden |
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