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Marlene Dietrich is best known for her films and style, but her antifascist political efforts remain an enduring part of her legacy. CNN values your feedback 1.
Marlene Dietrich is celebrated as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous movie stars, but the Berlin-born actress preferred being on the front lines with troops fighting during World War II.
Marlene Dietrich was 100%. Like Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich today is remembered by many for her beauty. But Dietrich's persona – cool, husky-voiced, at times androgynous – was always ...
Marlene Dietrich was a sought-after star of the ‘30s and ’40s. (Eugene Robert Richee/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Hollywood took note, and a contract with Paramount Pictures followed.
Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...
The actress Marlene Dietrich played cabaret singers, spies, vamps, a prostitute and Catherine the Great. With a gift for reinvention that makes Madonna look like a poseur, Dietrich fascinated ...
Marlene Dietrich had one daughter, who was born in 1924, before Dietrich became a Hollywood sensation. Their relationship was troubled, and after Dietrich’s death in 1992 at the age of 90, her ...
Silver-screen star Marlene Dietrich was more than a pretty face and a set of legendary legs. “She made these really interesting decisions about self-representation, about image,” says Kate ...
Berliners spit in Marlene Dietrich's grave before the film star was buried there 10 years ago, but yesterday the city made the Berlin native an honorary citizen. Sign up.
Marlene Dietrich’s Legendary Van Cleef & Arpels Ruby and Diamond Bracelet Heading to Auction (Exclusive) Worn by the actress to the Academy Awards and in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Stage Fright ...
Marlene Dietrich is best known for her films and style, but her antifascist political efforts remain an enduring part of her legacy. CNN values your feedback 1.
Marlene Dietrich kisses a GI as he arrives home to New York from World War II (1945) — When the Nazis asked her to star in propaganda films in 1937, she refused. Two years later, she renounced ...