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 »
2001Marlene 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")
2001Transfixed
(performer: "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt", "Jonny")
1950Stage 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)
1948A Foreign Affair
(performer: "Black Market" - uncredited, "Illusions" - uncredited, "The Ruins of Berlin" - uncredited)
1946The Secret Heart
(performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love")
1940Seven 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)
1939Destry 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)
1930Morocco
(performer: "Quand l'amour meurt" 1904 - uncredited, "What Am I Bid for My Apple?" 1930 - uncredited)
1930The 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)
1929Why Cry at Parting?
(performer: "Wer wird denn weinen wenn man auseinander geht")
Ernest Hemingway is the most positive life force I have ever encountered. I hate anything negative, and I hate waste. In Hemingway, nothing is wasted.
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Trivia:
She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.
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