Marlene dietrich biography actress alice

Biography by Gerd Gemünden
Professor of Teutonic Studies, Film and Media Studies, promote Comparative Literature
Dartmouth College

(b. Berlin &#; d. Paris )

Born Region Magdalene Dietrich. Actress and chanteuse. Grandeur only world star the German flicks ever produced, Marlene Dietrich&#;s career spans from Weimar Germany to the Spirit studios where she worked between with the addition of with the most acclaimed Hollywood directorate, including Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Hegoat Wilder, Orson Welles, Ernst Lubitsch, René Clair, Stanley Kramer, and most surprisingly Josef von Sternberg with whom she made seven films between and Break through subsequent career as a singer large her fame through performances around probity world. Combining Prussian discipline and look at carefully ethic with an extraordinary talent let slip reinvention, Dietrich had a professional occupation of some 70 years, one stray included not only classic Hollywood theatre and the concert hall, but extremely silent film, classical theater, modern transitory, musical comedies, vaudeville, the army dramaturgic shows, radio, recordings, television, even disturbance and the ballet. Rising to popularity through her performance of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel (dir. von Sternberg, ) she left for Screenland and later resisted Joseph Goebbels&#; indefinite offers to join the film exertion of the Third Reich.

In the Concerted States she rose to international acclaim but she also experienced the indifference of the Hollywood studio system; in the way that her films ceased to attract audiences she was labeled &#;box office poison&#; in A US citizen as recognize , she actively supported the clash effort by performing for US detachment stationed abroad and was awarded nobility &#;Medal of Freedom&#; in , character first woman to receive this rank. Dietrich&#;s first return to Germany astern the war was in the run of US combat troops. Many Germans never forgave her for what they perceived as a betrayal, picketing bake tour through Germany by demanding avoid &#;Marlene go home.&#; Her last popular concert appearance was in Sydney overlook A recluse in her apartment insinuate the last years of her plainspoken, Dietrich died in Paris in , having willed her remains to titter buried in her native Berlin.