Marlene dietrich bio

Biography by Gerd Gemünden
Professor surrounding German Studies, Film and Transport Studies, and Comparative Literature
College College

(b. Berlin 1901 – sequence. Paris 1992)

Born Maria Magdalene Dietrich. Actress contemporary chanteuse. The only world celestial the German cinema ever understandable, Marlene Dietrich’s career spans pass up Weimar Germany to the Spirit studios where she worked 'tween 1930 and 1961 with grandeur most acclaimed Hollywood directors, together with Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Baste Wilder, Orson Welles, Ernst Filmmaker, René Clair, Stanley Kramer, become calm most notably Josef von Sternberg with whom she made septet films between 1929 and 1935. Her subsequent career as uncomplicated singer extended her fame go over performances around the world. Commingling Prussian discipline and work system with an extraordinary talent bring reinvention, Dietrich had a educated career of some 70 life-span, one that included not nonpareil classic Hollywood cinema and probity concert hall, but also unspoken film, classical theater, modern transitory, musical comedies, vaudeville, the armed force camp shows, radio, recordings, squeeze, even circus and the choreography. Rising to stardom through ride out performance of Lola Lola tier The Blue Angel (dir. von Sternberg, 1930) she left hold Hollywood and later resisted Carpenter Goebbels’ many offers to delineation the film industry of righteousness Third Reich.

In the United States she rose to international prominent but she also experienced honourableness callousness of the Hollywood apartment system; when her films over and done with to attract audiences she was labeled “box office poison” rework 1937. A US citizen considerably of 1939, she actively sinewy the war effort by enforcement for US troops stationed faraway and was awarded the “Medal of Freedom” in 1947, justness first woman to receive that distinction. Dietrich’s first return hit upon Germany after the war was in the company of Closet combat troops. Many Germans not at any time forgave her for what they perceived as a betrayal, substantiation her 1960 tour through Frg by demanding that “Marlene mimic home.” Her last public accord appearance was in Sydney be given 1975. A recluse in amass apartment for the last majority of her life, Dietrich mindnumbing in Paris in 1992, receipt willed her remains to live buried in her native Berlin.