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Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 to 6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer.

Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures in the USA. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1939; during World War II, she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.

In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.

Life and career

Childhood

Dietrich was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich on 27 December 1901 in Schoeneberg, a district of Berlin, Germany. She was the younger of two daughters (her sister Elisabeth being a year older) of Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine Dietrich (née Felsing). Dietrich's mother was from a well-to-do Berlin family who owned a clockmaking firm and her father was a police lieutenant who had served in the Franco-Prussian War. Her father died in 1907. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocrat first lieutenant in the Grenadiers courted Wilhelmina and eventually married her in 1916, but he died soon after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I.

Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich children, hence Dietrich's surname was never von Losch, as is sometimes claimed. She was nicknamed "Lene" (pronounced Lay-neh) within the family. Around the age of 11, she contracted her two first names to form the then-unusual name, Marlene.

Dietrich attended the Auguste Victoria School for Girls from 1906 to 1918. She studied the violin and became interested in theatre and poetry as a teenager. Her dreams of becoming a concert violinist were cut short when she injured her wrist.

Early career

In 1921, Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impressario Max Reinhardt's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas, without attracting any special attention at first.

Dietrich made her film debut playing a bit part in the 1922 film, So sind die Maenner. She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of another film made that year, Tragoedie der Liebe. In the G. W. Pabst film, Die freudlose Gasse (1925), the actress playing Elsa is Hertha von Walther (1903-1987), who looks very much like the young Marlene Dietrich, giving rise to the false rumor that Dietrich has a bit part in this film.

Dietrich and Sieber were married on 17 May 1924. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, later billed as actress Maria Riva, was born on 13 December 1924.

Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance. It was in musicals and revues, such as Broadway, Es Liegt in der Luft and Zwei Krawatten, however, that she attracted the most attention.

By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen - the most notable films being Café Electric (1927), Ich kuesse Ihre Hand, Madame (1928) and Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929).

In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola-Lola, a cabaret singer who causes the downfall of a hitherto respected schoolmaster, in UFA's production, The Blue Angel (1930). The film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, who thereafter took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced Dietrich's signature song "Falling in Love Again".

Film star

On the strength of The Blue Angel's international success, and with encouragement and promotion from von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, Dietrich then moved to the U.S. on contract to Paramount Pictures. The studio sought to market Dietrich as a German answer to MGM's Swedish sensation, Greta Garbo. Her first American film, Morocco, directed by von Sternberg, earned Dietrich her only Oscar nomination. However, at the time she knew very little English and so spoke her lines phonetically.

Dietrich's most lasting contribution to film history was as the star of a series of six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount between 1930 and 1935: Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress, and The Devil is a Woman. In Hollywood, von Sternberg worked very effectively with Dietrich to create the image of a glamorous femme fatale. He encouraged her to lose weight and coached her intensively as an actress -she, in turn, was willing to trust him and follow his sometimes imperious direction in a way that a number of other performers resisted.

A crucial part of the overall effect was created by von Sternberg's exceptional skill in lighting and photographing Dietrich to optimum effect - the use of light and shadow, including the impact of light passed through a veil or slatted blinds (as for example in Shanghai Express) - which, when combined with scrupulous attention to all aspects of set design and costumes, make this series of films among the most visually stylish in cinema history. Critics still debate vigorously how much of the credit belonged to von Sternberg and how much to Dietrich, but most would agree that neither consistently reached such heights again after Paramount fired von Sternberg and the two ceased to work together.

Without von Sternberg, Dietrich - along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Dolores del Rio, Katharine Hepburn and others - was labeled "box office poison" after her 1937 film, Knight Without Armour, proved an expensive flop. In 1939, however, her stardom revived when she played the cowboy saloon girl Frenchie in the light-hearted western Destry Rides Again opposite James Stewart. The movie also introduced another favorite song, "The Boys in the Back Room". She played a similar role in 1942John Wayne in The Spoilers. with

While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in the movies, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, in successful films that included A Foreign Affair, Witness for the Prosecution, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Stage Fright.

World War II

In interviews, Dietrich stated that she had been approached by representatives of the Nazi Party to return to Germany, but had turned them down flat. Dietrich became an American citizen in 1939.

In December 1941, the U.S. entered World War II, and Dietrich became one of the first celebrities to raise war bonds. She entertained troops on the front lines in a USO revue that included future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act. Dietrich was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. Like many Weimar-era German entertainers, she was a staunch anti-Nazi who despised antisemitism.

Dietrich recorded a number of anti-Nazi records in German for the OSS, including Lili Marleen. She also played the musical saw, something she had originally learned for stage appearances in Berlin to entertain troops. She sang for the Allied troops on the front lines in Algeria and France, and went into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand" -" "it was the decent thing to do."

Recordings

Dietrich had a smoky and world-weary singing voice which she used to great effect in many of her films, on records and later during her worldwide concert tours. Kenneth Tynan called her voice her "third dimension." Ernest Hemingway thought that "if she had nothing more than her voice, she could break your heart with it."

Dietrich's recording career spanned over half a century. Prior to international stardom, she recorded a duet, "Wenn die Beste Freundin", with Margo Lion. This song, with its lesbian overtones, was a hit in Berlin in 1928.

In 1930, Dietrich recorded English and German-language selections from her film, Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), for Electrola in Berlin. It was at this time that she recorded Frederick Hollander's "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" for the first time - it would become her theme song, to be sung in thousands of concerts.

A 1933 Parisian recording session for Polydor produced several classic tracks, including Franz Waxman's "Allein in Einer Grossen Stadt." Dietrich recorded "The Boys in the Back Room" from Destry Rides AgainDecca Records in 1939. In 1945, she recorded her version of "Lili Marleen". for

Dietrich signed with Columbia Records in the 1950s, with Mitch Miller as her producer. The 1950 LP Marlene Dietrich Overseas, with Dietrich singing German translations of American songs of the World War II era, was a hit. She also recorded several duets with Rosemary Clooney; these tapped into a younger market and charted.

During the 1960s, Dietrich recorded several albums and many singles, mostly with Burt Bacharach at the helm of the orchestra. Dietrich in London, recorded live at the Queen's Theatre in 1964, is an enduring document of Dietrich in concert. In 1972, Dietrich taped a television special, An Evening With Marlene Dietrich - also known as I Wish You Love - at the New London Theatre in London: the concert was re-released, with bonus material, as a 75-minute DVD in 2003.

In 1978, Dietrich's performance of the title track from her last film, Just a Gigolo, was issued as a single. She made her last recordings from her Paris apartment in 1987: spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg.

Asked by Maximillian Schell in his documentary, Marlene (1984), which of her own recordings were her favorites, Dietrich replied that she thought Marlene Singt Berlin-Berlin (1964) - an album featuring her singing old Berlin schlager (popular songs) - was her best-recorded work.

Stage and cabaret

From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a highly-paid cabaret artist, performing live in large theaters in major cities worldwide.

In 1953, Dietrich was offered a then-substantial $30,000 per week to appear live at the Sahara HotelLas Vegas Strip. The show was short, consisting only of a few songs associated with her. Her daringly sheer costumes, designed by Jean Louis, attracted a lot of publicity and attention. This engagement was so successful that she was signed to appear at the Café de Paris in London the following year, and her Las Vegas contracts were also renewed. It was the start of a new phase in Dietrich's career. on the

When Dietrich signed Burt Bacharach as her musical arranger in the mid-1950s, her show started to evolve from a mere nightclub act to a more ambitious one-woman show featuring an array of new material. Her repertoire included songs from her films as well as popular songs of the day. Bacharach's arrangements helped to disguise Dietrich's limited vocal range- she was a contralto - and allowed her to perform her songs to maximum dramatic effect.

Dietrich's return to Germany in 1960 for a concert tour elicited a mixed response. Many Germans felt she had betrayed her homeland by her actions during World War II. During her performances at Berlin's Titania Palast theatre, protesters chanted, "Marlene Go Home!" On the other hand, Dietrich was warmly welcomed by other Germans, including Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. The tour was an artistic triumph, but a financial failure. She also undertook a tour of Israel around the same time, which was well-received; she sang some songs in German during her concerts, including a German version of Pete Seeger's anti-war anthem "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", thus breaking the unofficial taboo against the use of German in Israel.

Dietrich appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, with Bacharach as conductor, in 1964 and 1965 and made appearances on Broadway twice (1967 and 1968), winning a special Tony Award for her performance. Her costumes (body-hugging dresses covered with thousands of crystals as well as a swansdown coat), body-sculpting undergarments, careful stage lighting helped to preserve Dietrich's glamorous image well into old age.

In November 1972, a version of the show Dietrich had performed on Broadway was filmed in London. She was paid $250,000 for her cooperation, but Dietrich was unhappy with the result. The show, originally titled I Wish You Love, was broadcast in the UK on the BBC on 1 January 1973 and in the US on CBS on 13 January 1973. The show was retitled An Evening With Marlene Dietrich for the later VHS and DVD releases.

Final years

Dietrich's show business career largely ended on 29 September 1975, when she broke her leg during a stage performance in Sydney, Australia. Her husband, Rudolf Sieber, died of cancer on 24 June 1976.

Dietrich's final on-camera film appearance was a cameo role in Just a Gigolo (1979), starring David Bowie.

Growing increasingly reclusive, Dietrich withdrew to her apartment at 12 avenue Montaigne in Paris. She spent the final 11 years of her life mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few - including family and employees - to enter the apartment. During this time, she was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. Her autobiograpy, Nehmt nur mein Leben, was published in 1979.

In 1982, Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, Marlene (1984), but refused to be filmed. The film's director, Maximilian Schell, was only allowed to record her voice. He used his interviews with her as the basis for the film, set to a collage of film clips from her career. The final film won several European film prizes and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary in 1984. Newsweek magazine named it "a unique film, perhaps the most fascinating and affecting documentary ever made about a great movie star".

She began a close friendship with the biographer David Bret, one of the few people allowed inside her Paris apartment. Bret is thought to have been the last person outside her family that Dietrich spoke to, two days before her death: "I have called to say that I love you, and now I may die." She was in constant contact with her daughter, who came to Paris regularly to check on her.

In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2005, Dietrich's daughter and grandson claim that Dietrich was politically active during these years. She kept in contact with world leaders by telephone, including Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, running up a monthly bill of over US$3,000. In 1989, her appeal to save the Babelsberg studios from closure was broadcast on BBC radio, and she spoke on television via telephone on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990.

Dietrich died peacefully of renal failure on 6 May 1992 at the age of 90 in Paris. A service was conducted at La Madeleine in Paris before 3,500 mourners and a crowd of well-wishers outside. Her body, covered with an American flag, was then returned to Berlin, where she was interred at the Städtischer Friedhof III, Berlin-Schoeneberg, Stubenrauchstrasse 43-45, in Friedenau Cemetery, near her mother's grave and not far away from the house where she was born.

Private life

Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view.

Dietrich, who was bisexual, enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls of 1920s Berlin.

She married once, to assistant director Rudolf Sieber, a Roman Catholic who later became an assistant director at Paramount Pictures in France, responsible for foreign language dubbing.

Dietrich's only child, Maria Elisabeth Sieber, was born in Berlin on 13 December 1924. She would later become an actress, primarily working in television, known as Maria Riva. When Maria gave birth to a son in 1948, Dietrich was dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother". After Dietrich's death, Riva published a frank biography of her mother, titled Marlene Dietrich (1992).

In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with the writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor and military hero Jean Gabin. Their relationship ended in the mid-1940s. She was also known to have had an affair with the Cuban-American writer Mercedes de Acosta, who also had affairs with Greta Garbo, according to de Acosta's autobiography Here Lies the Heart (1960). Dietrich's husband and his mistress, both of whom she stayed in touch with, lived on a small ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California.

In Michael Freedland's biography of Maurice Chevalier, Janie Michels quoted Chevalier telling Dietrich, "Marlinou, you are the queen of the quick story." "Yes, you were in love with me", Marlene replied, "but as soon as you could, you left me." "No, Marlinou, I'll never forgive you for preferring Jean Gabin to me." "Ah", she returned. "Jean is so French. But it was not Jean or you. I had but one love in my life and this love was never realized. It was for Orson Welles. He is the love of my life, but he never realized our love. Every time I know Orson is free, I ring him and say, 'Orson, this is for us.' He would always reply, 'Marlene, too late. I have a new one.'" Dietrich even helped cover the romance of Welles with the Mexican actress Dolores del Ri­o, who Marlene called "The most beautiful woman of Hollywood". Del Río say about Dietrich: "She has the most amazing legs of all the world. But she love the publicity and the whole world to know about her life."

Image and legacy

Dietrich was a fashion icon to the top designers as well as a screen icon that later stars would follow. She once said, "I dress for myself. Not for the image, not for the public, not for the fashion, not for men." Her public image and some of her movies included strong sexual undertones, including bisexuality.

A significant volume of academic literature, especially since 1975, analyzes Dietrich's image, as created by the movie industry, within various theoretical frameworks, including that of psycho-analysis. Emphasis is placed, inter alia, on the "fetishistic" manipulation of the female image.

In 1992, a plaque was unveiled at Leberstrasse 65 in Berlin-Schoeneberg, the site of Dietrich's birth. A postage stamp bearing Dietrich's portrait was issued in Germany on 14 August 1997.

Luxury pen manufacturer MontBlanc produced a limited edition 'Marlene Dietrich' pen to commemorate Dietrich's life. It is platinum-plated and has an encrusted deep blue sapphire.

For some Germans, she remained a controversial figure as a war-time traitor. In 1996, after some controversy, it was decided not to name a street after Dietrich in Berlin-Schoeneberg, her birthplace. Berliner Weltstar des Films und des Chansons. Einsatz fuer Freiheit und Demokratie, fuer Berlin und Deutschland ("Berlin world star of film and song. Dedication to freedom and democracy, to Berlin and Germany"). However, on 8 November 1997, the central Marlene-Dietrich-Platz was unveiled in Berlin to honor Dietrich. The commemoration reads

Dietrich was made an honorary citizen of Berlin on 16 May 2002.

The U.S. Government awarded Marlene Dietrich the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her war work. Dietrich has been quoted as saying this was the honor of which she was most proud in her life. She was also made a chevalier (later commandeur) of the Laegion d'honneur by the French government.

Estate

On 24 October 1993, the largest portion of Dietrich's estate was sold to the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek - after U.S. institutions showed no interest - where it became the core of the exhibition at the Filmmuseum Berlin. The collection includes: over 3,000 textile items from the 1920s through the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe; 15,000 photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Lord Snowdon, Eugene Robert Richee, and Edward Steichen; 300,000 pages of documents, including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Noel Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder; as well as other items like film posters and sound recordings.

The contents of Dietrich's Manhattan apartment, along with other personal effects such as jewelry and items of clothing, were sold by public auction by Sotheby's (Los Angeles) on 1 November 1997. The apartment itself (located at 993 Park Avenue) was sold for $615,000 in 1998.

Trivia:

Height: 1,68m

Spouse: Rudolf Sieber (17 May 1924 - 24 June 1976) (his death) 1 daughter

Trade Mark:

Low and sensual voice

Wearing tuxedoes, men's hats, and men's tailored suits.

Her legs

Received the U.S. War Department's 'Medal of Freedom', in 1947, for entertaining American troops in WWII and her strong stand against Naziism.

Was made a Chevaliere of the Legion by France.

Born at 9:15pm-CET

Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 mio. German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.

Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#60). [1995]

Mother of Maria Riva.

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.

Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.

She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.

Never worked without a mirror on the set so she could constantly check her makeup and hair.

Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.

In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.

She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.

She prided herself on the fact that she had slept with three men of the Kennedy clan - Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and John F. Kennedy.

Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.

Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.

Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.

Ten years after her death, Berlin - the city of Dietrich's birth which she shunned for most of her life - declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city's legislature bestowed honor on her as "an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany." The declaration hoped this "would symbolize the city of Berlin's reconciliation with her."

Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Measurements: 35-24-33 (in 1930), 36 1/2-26-33 (mid-1950s), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

She thought of feet to be the ugliest part of the human body, and therefore always tried to hide them in one way or another

The only show-business friend she ever had was Mae West. However, they never saw one another outside the Paramount lot.

Once said that her favorite meal was hotdogs and champagne.

Proficient on the musical saw.

She was voted the 43rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Won a Special Tony Award in 1968.

Was named #9 Actress on The AFI 50 Greatest Screen Legends

First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.

Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue"

She spent her last decade in her apartment on the avenue Montaigne in Paris, during which time she was not seen in public but was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. In 1984, Academy Award winning actor Maximilian Schell persuaded her to be interviewed for a documentary, but she did not appear on screen.

According to daughter Maria Riva, Dietrich had a long-standing dislike of actress Loretta Young.

In Italian films, she was dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi, Tina Lattanzi or Andreina Pagnani.

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

Is portrayed by Ksenia Prohaska in Bugsy (1991).

Grandmother of production designer J. Michael Riva.

Lived out her life in apartment #12E at 993 Park Avenue in Manhattan where Jamie Lee Curtis had earlier stayed with then fiance J. Michael Riva (Dietrich's grandson) during the Trading Places (1983) shoot.

Was considered for the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) after Claudette Colbert was forced to pull out of the project due to back injury. However the part was given to Bette Davis, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.

Personal Quotes:

[On Der blaue Engel (1930), German language version of The Blue Angel (1930/I)]: I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here [at my groin]. I was so young and dumb.

I am not a myth.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

In 1964: "I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

To be completely a woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

I am at heart, a gentleman

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

I'm not an actress -- I'm a personality.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman!

[On Loretta Young] Every time she "sins", she builds a church. That's why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood.

Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.

There is a lack of dignity to film stardom.

I never ever took my career seriously.

I was an actress. I made films. Finish.

Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

[On Anna Magnani] A force of nature.

[on Hildegard Knef] She's Mother Courage.

The legs aren't so beautiful. I just know what to do with them.

[on Cary Grant] The champion.

[1972 comment on Liza Minnelli] I'm annoyed when people keep comparing her to her mother [Judy Garland]. She's nothing to do with her mother. She's a completely different woman. The film "Cabaret" is a great hit for her and that's all one wants.

[on Orson Welles] You should cross yourself when you say his name.

The diaphragm is the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

He was one of the gentlest, kindest men in Hollywood - and all those journalists should burn in Hell for the bile they printed about him when he died. - On Rock Hudson

On reading: I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.

Filmography:

  1. Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978) .... Baroness von Semering
    ... aka Just a Gigolo (USA)

  2. Deutsche Schlagerfestival 1963 (1963) (TV) .... Singer
  3. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) .... Mrs. Bertholt
    ... aka Judgement at Nuremberg

  4. Touch of Evil (1958) .... Tanya
  5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) .... Christine Vole
  6. Montecarlo (1957) .... Maria de Crevecoeur
    ... aka Monte Carlo (USA)
    ... aka The Monte Carlo Story (USA)
  7. Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) .... Saloon Hostess
    ... aka Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days (USA: complete title)
  8. Rancho Notorious (1952) .... Altar Keane
  9. No Highway (1951) .... Monica Teasdale
    ... aka No Highway in the Sky (USA)
  10. Stage Fright (1950) .... Charlotte Inwood

  11. Jigsaw (1949) (uncredited) .... Cameo appearance (nightclub patron)
    ... aka Gun Moll (USA: reissue title)
  12. A Foreign Affair (1948) .... Erika Von Schluetow
  13. Golden Earrings (1947) .... Lydia
  14. Martin Roumagnac (1946) .... Blanche Ferrand
    ... aka The Room Upstairs (USA)
  15. Kismet (1944) .... Jamilla
    ... aka Oriental Dream (USA: TV title)
  16. Pittsburgh (1942) .... Josie 'Hunky' Winters
  17. The Spoilers (1942) .... Cherry Malotte
  18. The Lady Is Willing (1942) .... Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden
  19. Manpower (1941) .... Fay Duval
  20. The Flame of New Orleans (1941) .... Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili
  21. Seven Sinners (1940) .... Bijou Blanche
    ... aka Café of the Seven Sinners (UK: reissue title)

  22. Destry Rides Again (1939) .... Frenchy
  23. Angel (1937) .... Maria 'Angel' Barker, aka Mrs. Brown
  24. Knight Without Armour (1937) .... Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
    ... aka Knight Without Armor (USA)
  25. The Garden of Allah (1936) .... Domini Enfilden
  26. Desire (1936) .... Madeleine de Beaupre
    ... aka The Pearl Necklace
  27. I Loved a Soldier (1936) .... Anna Sedlak
    ... aka Hotel Imperial (USA)
  28. The Devil Is a Woman (1935) .... Concha Perez
  29. The Scarlet Empress (1934) .... Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
  30. The Song of Songs (1933) .... Lily Czepanek
  31. Blonde Venus (1932) .... Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
  32. Shanghai Express (1932) .... Shanghai Lily, aka Magdalen
  33. Dishonored (1931) .... Marie Kolverer/X27
  34. Morocco (1930) .... Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
  35. Der blaue Engel (1930) .... Lola Lola
    ... aka The Blue Angel (USA)
  36. The Blue Angel (1930/I) .... Lola Lola

  37. Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929) .... Ethel Marley
    ... aka Grischa the Cook (International: English title)
    ... aka Le navire des hommes perdus (France)
    ... aka The Ship of Lost Men (International: English title)
  38. Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (1929) .... Stascha
    ... aka The Woman Men Yearn For
    ... aka The Woman One Longs for (USA)
    ... aka Three Loves
  39. Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1929) .... Laurence Gerard/Lucille (U.S. prints)
    ... aka I Kiss Your Hand Madame (USA)
  40. Gefahren der Brautzeit (1929) .... Evelyne
    ... aka Aus dem Tagebuch eines Verführers (Germany)
    ... aka Dangers of the Engagement (USA)
    ... aka Dangers of the Engagement Period (International: English title)
    ... aka Im Banne der Frauen (Germany)
    ... aka Liebesnächte (Germany)
    ... aka Nights of Love (USA)
  41. Prinzessin Olala (1928) .... Chichotte de Gastoné
    ... aka Art of Love (USA)
    ... aka Princess Olala
  42. Café Elektric (1927) .... Erni Göttlinger
    ... aka Cafe Electric (International: English title)
    ... aka Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert
  43. Sein größter Bluff (1927) .... Yvette
    ... aka His Biggest Bluff (UK)
    ... aka His Greatest Bluff (International: English title)
    ... aka The Big Bluff
  44. Kopf hoch, Charly! (1927) .... Edmée Marchand
    ... aka Heads Up, Charley (International: English title)
  45. Der Juxbaron (1927) .... Sophie, ihre Tochter
    ... aka The Imaginary Baron (International: English title)
  46. Eine Dubarry von heute (1927) .... Kokotte
    ... aka A Modern Dubarry (International: English title)
  47. Madame wünscht keine Kinder (1926) (uncredited) .... Dancer
    ... aka Madame Doesn't Want Children (USA)
    ... aka Madame Wants No Children
  48. Manon Lescaut (1926) .... Micheline
  49. Der Tänzer meiner Frau (1925) .... Dance extra
    ... aka Dance Fever (USA)
    ... aka Dancing Mad
  50. Der Sprung ins Leben (1924) .... Mädchen am Strand
    ... aka Der Roman eines Zirkuskindes (Germany: alternative title)
    ... aka Leap Into Life (UK)
  51. Der Mönch von Santarem (1924)
    ... aka The Monk from Santarem (UK)
  52. Tragödie der Liebe (1923) .... Lucy
    ... aka Love Tragedy (USA)
    ... aka The Tragedy of Love (USA)
  53. Der Mensch am Wege (1923) .... Krämerstochter
    ... aka Man by the Roadside (USA)
    ... aka Man by the Wayside (UK)
    ... aka People Along the Way (International: English title)
    ... aka What Man Lives By (Australia)
  54. So sind die Männer (1923) .... Kathrin
    ... aka Der kleine Napoleon (Germany: alternative title)
    ... aka Napoleons kleiner Bruder (Germany: alternative title)
    ... aka The Little Napoleon (International: English title)

  55. Im Schatten des Glücks (1919) (unconfirmed)

sources:

wikipedia.org

imdb.com

dr. macro

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