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About Me


www.layoutpimper.comOnce the highest paid actress of her time, Marlene Dietrich is today viewed by many movie fans as an icon, while others see her as a curiosity at best. While it's probably true that some of her films and performances haven't held up well (and few are seen very often), no serious film afficionado can deny the impact she had on the world of filmmaking during the 30s and 40s. She finished 9th on the AFI's list of greatest actresses, ahead of Grace Kelly, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Crawford. * * Marlene Dietrich was born as Marie Magdelene Dietrich in Berlin on December 27, 1901. As a young girl, she enjoyed singing and playing the piano and violin, and discovered acting as a teenager. When she was 20, she attended an acting school run by Max Reinhardt. In 1923 she married Rudolf Sieber and remained married to him until his death, though they were separated. In 1929, Josef von Sternberg discovered her in a Berlin cabaret and gave her a screen test, which resulted in the role for which she is perhaps best known to this day, that of the cabaret singer in The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel). She then went to Hollywood, appearing in Morocco (1930), with Gary Cooper, the second in a series of von Sternberg films. * * Shanghai Express (1932) was a great success, making her a star, but she was constantly appearing as prostitutes or women of low morals, and the quality of her work began to decline. At one point she even left Hollywood and returned to Europe. However, in 1939 she starred with Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again, as a saloon hostess in the American West, and finally was able to escape the typecasting and make a comeback. Many of her best films were made in the early 40s. * * She became a U.S. citizen and helped the war effort in WW II, and after the war traded her movie career for one involving singing and the stage, including appearances in Las Vegas and on Broadway. Her last notable film role was in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Her health steadily declined in her later years (reportedly helped along by alcohol), and she died on May 6, 1992 in Paris at the age of 90. * * * Myspace Contact Tables* Online Status Icons *

My Interests

WELL YOU AND I! * *

I'd like to meet:

LET'S START WITH YOU! * *

Music:

CLASSICAL SLOW STUFF I LOVE THE ROMANTIC THINGS! * *

Movies:

WELL MINE DEAR HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THEM THEIR SIMPLE AND PERFECT LIKE ME! *** THAT'S A GREAT ONE! * SEE I CAN LOOK GOOD AND DO ANYTHING I WANT! * *Marlene Dietrich - filmographyas actress:So sind die Maenner (1922) Man by the Roadside/Der Mensch am Wege(1923) The Leap Into Life/Der Sprung ins Leben (1923) Tragedy of Love/Tragoedie der Liebe (1923) The Imaginary Baron/Der Juxbaron (1926) Heads Up, Charly!/Kopf hoch, Charly! (1926) Madame Wants No Children/Madame wuenscht keine Kinder (1926) Manon Lescaut (1926) Cafe Electric/Cafe Elektrik aka When a Woman Loses Her Way/Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert (1927) A Modern Dubarry/Eine Dubarry von heute (1927) His Greatest Bluff/Sein groesster Bluff (1927) Princess Olala/Prinzessin Olala (1928) The Woman One Longs For/Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (1929) Dangers of the Engagement Period/Gefahren der Brautzeit (1929) I Kiss Your Hand, Madame/Ich kuesse Ihre Hand, Madame (1929) The Ship of Lost Men/Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen(1929) The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel(1930) Morocco (1930) Dishonored (1931) Blonde Venus (1932) Shanghai Express (1932) Song of Songs (1933) The Scarlet Empress (1934) The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Desire (1936) The Garden of Allah (1936) Angel (1937) Knight Without Armour (1937) Destry Rides Again (1939) Seven Sinners (1940) The Flame of New Orleans (1941) The Lady Is Willing (1942) Manpower (1942) Pittsburgh (1942) The Spoilers (1942) Show Business at War (1943) aka March of Time, The, Vol. IX Issue 10 Follow the Boys (1944) Kismet (1944) aka Oriental Dream Martin Roumagnac (1946) Golden Earrings (1947) A Foreign Affair (1948) Jigsaw (1949) aka Gun Moll Stage Fright (1950) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Rancho Notorious (1952) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) The Monte Carlo Story (1957) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Touch of Evil (1958) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Black Fox, The (1962) [Narrator] Paris - When It Sizzles (1964) [(guest star) Just a Gigolo (1979) Marlene (1983) (voice)

Television:

WELL UNLESS I'M ON IT THEN NO DEAR ONE! * *

Books:

ALL KINDS, TOO MANY TO NAME!

Heroes:

WELL I SEE THEM EVERYDAY NOW THAT I'M DEAD! * * EVEN THOU. IT DIDN'T WORK OUT HE'S STILL A LOOKER!AND MY DEAR HUSBAND *