Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...
“Morocco” is the first American film made by Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, and if you know anything about American movies at this time, this film will seem to have arrived from Jupiter.
Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to forget. At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper meets café entertainer Marlene Dietrich (making her American film debut). A ...
An exhibition dedicated to film legend Marlene Dietrich is slated to open at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on June 16, 2017, running through April 15, 2018. It will be the first major ...
Maria Riva, an actress and author who spent much of her life as a self-described "handmaiden" to her mother - the German-born ...
Dietrich had a long and very successful career in the film industry, both as a singer and actor. Some of her most famous films include Dishonored, Witness for the Prosecution, and Judgement at ...
They had faces back then, during the golden age of Hollywood when actors and actresses were almost surreally beautiful. And one of the most perfect faces to grace the silver screen belonged to ...
BERLIN (dpa) – Elegant, glamorous, cool, mysterious – the late Marlene Dietrich still has a huge hold on people in her native Germany as it marks the 100th anniversary of her birth. Countless press ...
Riva published a biography of Dietrich shortly after her 1992 death, in which she wrote: “I don’t think my mother knew what ...
After achieving fame and fortune as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after stars, Marlene Dietrich was ready for some peace. The movie star spent the final 13 years of her life in Paris, where she kept ...
Chances are you fall into one of the following categories: (1) Marlene Dietrich is only a name to you, and you’ve never heard of Josef von Sternberg; (2) You’ve seen a few Dietrich films, but you’re ...