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Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)


Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator then as a cabaret singer... See full bio »

Died:

(age 90) in Paris, France

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Filmography

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2011 Codebreaker (TV movie) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
 
2009 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
Episode #4.9 (2009) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
 
2009 Giovinezza (short) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
 
2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (video documentary) (performer: "You're the Cream in My Coffee" - uncredited, "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" - uncredited)
 
2007 The War (TV mini-series documentary)
The Ghost Front: December 1944 - March 1945 (2007) (performer: "Lili Marleen")
 
2004 Dancing Dog (short) (performer: "You Do Something to Me")
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
Next Stop Vietnam (2003) (performer: "Sag mir wo die Blumen sind")
 
2002 How to Draw a Bunny (documentary) (performer: "Awake In A Dream")
 
2001 Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (documentary) (performer: "Lili Marlene", "Wenn die Beste Freundin", "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "Ich bin die fesche Lola", "Quand l'amour meurt", "Awake In a Dream", "Another Spring, Another Love", "The Boys in the Back Room", "The Man's in the Navy", "Look Me Over Closely", "You Little So-And-So", "Illusions", "White Grass", "I May Never Go Home Anymore", "Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", "Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen")
 
2001 Transfixed (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Jonny")
 
2001 The Anniversary Party (performer: "I May Never Go Home Anymore")
 
2000 Nuremberg (TV mini-series)
 
2000 Paragraph 175 (documentary) (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
 
1999 Fight Club (performer: "NO LOVE, NO NOTHIN'")
 
1997 Breaking Up (performer: "COME RAIN OR COME SHINE")
 
1997 Heaven's Burning (performer: "ANOTHER SPRING, ANOTHER LOVE")
 
1996 The Delicate Art of the Rifle (performer: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone", "Blowing In The Wind")
 
1991 Scenes from a Mall (performer: "YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME")
 
1989 Berliner Tag (performer: "LILI MARLEN")
 
1978 Just a Gigolo (performer: "Just A Gigolo")
 
1974 La jeune fille assassinée (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Ich bin die fesche Lola")
 
1973 The Mother and the Whore (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
 
1970 Myra Breckinridge (performer: "The Man's in the Navy")
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary) (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" - uncredited, "Quand l'amour meurt" - uncredited)
 
1964 Swingers' Paradise (lyrics: "Theme For Young Lovers" - uncredited / performer: "Theme For Young Lovers" - uncredited)
 
1964 Katharina Knie - Ein Seiltänzerstück (TV movie) (performer: "Auf der Mundharmonika")
 
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg (performer: "Lili Marleen")
 
1957 Witness for the Prosecution (performer: "I May Never Go Home Anymore" 1957)
 
1956 Monte Carlo (performer: "Indiana", "Les Jeux Sont Faits")
 
1955 I Am a Camera (performer: "Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin")
 
1952 Der Fürst von Pappenheim (performer: "wer wird denn weinen,wenn mann auseinander geht")
 
1952 Rancho Notorious (performer: "Get Away Young Man")
 
1950 Stage Fright (performer: "The Laziest Gal in Town" 1950 - uncredited, "La vie en rose" 1946 - uncredited, "Love Is Lyrical Whisper Sweet Little Nothing to Me" 1950 - uncredited)
 
1948 A Foreign Affair (performer: "Black Market" - uncredited, "Illusions" - uncredited, "The Ruins of Berlin" - uncredited)
 
1946 The Secret Heart (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love")
 
1944 Kismet (performer: "Tell Me, Tell Me, Evening Star" 1944 - uncredited)
 
1942 The Lady Is Willing (performer: "I Find Love")
 
1941 Manpower (performer: "He Lied and I Listened" 1941)
 
1941 The Flame of New Orleans (performer: "Sweet Is the Blush of May")
 
1940 Seven Sinners (performer: "I've Been in Love Before" 1940, "The Man's in the Navy" 1940, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" 1928 - uncredited)
 
1939 Destry Rides Again (performer: "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" 1939 - uncredited, "You've Got That Look" 1939 - uncredited, "Little Joe, the Wrangler" 1939 - uncredited)
 
1937 Angel (performer: "Angel" 1937)
 
1936 Desire (performer: "Awake in a Dream")
 
1935 The Devil Is a Woman (performer: "Three Sweethearts Have I")
 
1935 Regine (performer: "You Have Taken My Soul")
 
1934 Ihr größter Erfolg (performer: "Das Hobellied")
 
1933 March of the Movies (performer: "Falling in Love Again")
 
1933 The Song of Songs (performer: "Heideroslein" - uncredited, "Jonny" - uncredited)
 
1932 Blonde Venus (performer: "Hot Voodoo", "You Little So-and-So", "I Couldn't Be Annoyed")
 
1932 Stürme der Leidenschaft (performer: "Ich weiß nicht, zu wem ich gehöhre")
 
1931 Dishonored (performer: "Sonata No.14 in C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight'" / "Donauwellen Danube Waves")
 
1931 Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (performer: "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte")
 
1930 Morocco (performer: "Quand l'amour meurt" 1904 - uncredited, "What Am I Bid for My Apple?" 1930 - uncredited)
 
1930 The Blue Angel (performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" - uncredited, "Ich bin die fesche Lola" - uncredited, "Nimm Dich in Acht vor blonden Frau'n" - uncredited, "Kinder, heut' abend, da such' ich mir was aus" - uncredited)
 
1929 Why Cry at Parting? (performer: "Wer wird denn weinen wenn man auseinander geht")
 
Show ShowActress (55 titles)
1978 Just a Gigolo
Baroness von Semering
 
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg
Mrs. Bertholt
 
1956 Monte Carlo
Maria de Crevecoeur
 
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
Barbary Coiast Saloon Owner
 
1952 Rancho Notorious
Altar Keane
 
1949 Jigsaw
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
 
1948 A Foreign Affair
Erika Von Schluetow
 
1947 Golden Earrings
Lydia
 
1946 The Room Upstairs
Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante
 
1944 Kismet
Jamilla
 
1944 Follow the Boys
Marlene Dietrich
 
1942 The Lady Is Willing
Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden
 
1941 The Flame of New Orleans
Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili
 
1940 Seven Sinners
Bijou
 
1937 Angel
Maria 'Angel' Barker, aka Mrs. Brown
 
1937 Knight Without Armor
Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
 
1936 Desire
Madeleine de Beaupre
 
1936 I Loved a Soldier
Anna Sedlak
 
1934 The Scarlet Empress
Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
 
1932 Blonde Venus
Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
 
1932 Shanghai Express
Shanghai Lily
 
1931 Dishonored
Marie Kolverer/X27
 
1930 Morocco
Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
 
1930 Dangers of the Engagement
Evelyne
 
1929 The Ship of Lost Men
Ethel Marley
 
1929 Three Loves
Stascha
 
1929 I Kiss Your Hand Madame
Laurence Gerard/Lucille (U.S. prints)
 
1928 Art of Love
Chichotte de Gastoné
 
1927 Cafe Electric
Erni Göttlinger - ein flatterhaftes Mädchen
 
1927 His Greatest Bluff
Yvette
 
1927 Heads Up, Charley
Edmée Marchand
 
1927 The Imaginary Baron
Sophie, ihre Tochter
 
1927 A Modern Dubarry
Kokotte
 
1926 Madame Doesn't Want Children
Dancer (uncredited)
 
1926 Manon Lescaut
Micheline
 
1925 Dance Fever
Dance extra
 
1924 Der Sprung ins Leben
Mädchen am Strand
 
1923 Love Tragedy
Lucy
 
1923 Man by the Roadside
Krämerstochter
 
1923 The Little Napoleon
Kathrin
 
1919 Im Schatten des Glücks (unconfirmed)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
2011 Aquile senza corona (opening theme singer)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2002 S1m0ne (Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone)
 
Show ShowSelf (15 titles)
1984 Marlene (documentary)
Herself (voice)
 
1973 An Evening with Marlene Dietrich (documentary)
Herself
 
1968 Magic of Marlene (TV movie)
Herself
 
1968 The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (TV special)
Herself - Special Tony Award Recipient
 
1964 Paris When It Sizzles
Herself (uncredited)
 
1963 The Royal Variety Performance 1963 (TV movie)
Herself
 
1963 Deutsche Schlagerfestival 1963 (TV movie)
Singer
 
1963 Gala de l'union (TV series)
Herself
33ème gala de l'union des artistes (1963) … Herself
 
1962 Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1944 Memo for Joe (documentary short)
Herself
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1935 The Fashion Side of Hollywood (documentary short)
Herself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (short)
Herself
 
1928 Die glückliche Mutter (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (68 titles)
2013 Duelle (TV series documentary)
 
2012 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Vito (documentary)
 
2010 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
 
2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (documentary)
Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
 
2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Strictly Courtroom (TV documentary)
Christine Helm (uncredited)
 
2006 Amérique, notre histoire (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003-2006 Unsere Besten (TV series)
 
2006 The Best of the Royal Variety (TV series)
 
2006 Private Screenings (TV series)
 
2006 Billy Wilder Speaks (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2006 Ciclo Agatha Christie (TV series documentary)
 
2004-2005 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
 
2005 Filmlegenden. Deutsch (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Legendary Sin Cities (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2004 The Ritchie Boys (documentary)
Herself
 
2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel (video documentary short)
Herself - At the premiere
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2003 Falling in Love Again (short)
Vocalist
 
2002 Prisoner of Paradise (documentary)
 
2001 Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (documentary)
Herself
 
2001 The Manns - Novel of a Century (TV mini-series)
 
1998-2001 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2001 Hitlers Frauen (TV series documentary)
 
2001 The Nightclub Years (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
2000 Paragraph 175 (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2000 Marlene Dietrich and Joseph von Sternberg (TV documentary short)
Herself
 
1998 Legenden (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1998 Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (TV documentary)
(uncredited)
 
1998 The Third Reich, in Color (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1996 The Real Las Vegas (TV series documentary)
Herself
 
1996 Marlene Dietrich: Shadow and Light (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1996 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1995 Get Shorty
Tanya (uncredited)
 
1995 The Celluloid Closet (documentary)
Nightclub Performer in Tuxedo (uncredited)
 
1995 The Casting Couch (video documentary)
 
1995 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1994 Entertaining the Troops (documentary)
Herself
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Performer in Clip from 'Kismet' (uncredited)
 
1994 Cinegrafias (documentary short)
Herself
 
1993 The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (documentary)
Herself
 
1993 Dos reinas (documentary short)
Herself
 
1991 Nylon blues (documentary)
 
1991 Only in Hollywood
Herself
 
1990 The Dietrich Songs (documentary)
Herself
 
1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s (documentary)
Herself
 
1983 Étoiles et toiles (TV series documentary)
 
1981 Sixty Years of Seduction (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1980 Il était une fois: Le gala de l'union des artistes (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1977 That's Action (documentary)
Herself
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
 
1965 Triumph Over Violence (documentary)
Herself
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1961 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV series)
 
1958 It Only Happened Once
Herself, Marlene Dietrich
 
1958 Das kommt nicht wieder (documentary)
Herself
 
1953 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (documentary short)
Herself
 
1933 March of the Movies
Herself (film clip from 'Der Blaue Engel")
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1927) Album: "Peter". See more »

Publicity Listings:

6 Biographical Movies  | 27 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 18 Articles  | 85 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

Marlena Dietrichová | Maria Magdalene Sieber

Height:

5' 4½" (1.64 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[during the war] Hitler is an idiot. See more »

Trivia:

Marlene's father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI. See more »

Trademark:

Wearing tuxedoes, men's hats, and men's tailored suits See more »

Nickname:

Lili Marlene See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn