The legendary, lovely Marlene, this is an old college way of introducing his long time friend when adoring and star studded audience at London’s Café de Parish one night in June 1954 as one of the greatest icons of 20th century cinema foliage the honing career as a cabaret singer.
Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin in 1901 to a well to do mother and a police lieutenant father who died when she was just six. Married in 1924 to Rudolf Sieber, her career exploded in 1929 when she appeared as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel directed by the great cinematic stylist Josef von Sternberg. The film was a smashed hit with Marlene’s hit song “Falling in Love Again” became her signature.
Dietrich and von Sternberg then made a string of gloriously camp into finally decade and Hollywood films together. They were always successful at the time but the reputations of films like Morocco, Scarlet Empress and Shanghai Express are unassailable today.
But for the late 30s with her popularity on the way, she showed her particular talent to survival by taking second—involved things are comedy western destiny arrives again—tag with a hat, she was a novel and a chemistry with costar Jimmy Stewart—their ability to love their self and her image gave her career a major boost. That level of adulation un soared when war broke out and Dietrich spoke against Hitler and anti-sigmatism taking out American citizenship in 1939 and becoming one of Hollywood’s most visible in tireless campaigner when it came to doing her bit for the war effort. She was one of the first stylist to sell war bombs and the performances for the Allied troops quickly became the stuff of legend.
In 1945, a Life Magazine photograph of her being lifted up to accused a home coming soldier leaning through a porthole was reprinted around the world. Throughout her life in Korea, Marlene was always extremely image conscious, so despite her string of lovers including von Sternberg, Jean Gabin, Edith Piaf, Yul Brynner, Mercedes de Acosta, John Gilbert and Erich Maria Remarque, she remained married to Rudolf Sieber right upon until his death from cancer in 1976. When her only child Maria Riva gave birth to her first son in 1948, Marlene willingly posed for pictures as the world’s most glamorous grandmother.
The film Korea after World War II really achieved its early heights with a few notable exceptions in particular a foreign affair and witness for the prosecution. Orson Welles' appeared 1958 drama that attached with evil which many considered the finest performance of her career and Stanley—star studded Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961.
She was to make just one more film appearance little more than a camera in the cultist, Just a Gigolo in 1979. Marlene has spent the last decade or so of her life a physical—hold up in bed within her apartment, but far from being shut off from the world she filled her days with letter icon and telephone calls running up monthly paying bills of $3,000.00 she kept in touch with world leaders like Ronald Reagan—and remained in her daughter’s words below until herself.
Dietrich died in the 5th of May 1992 but she remains a Hollywood icon perhaps that’s the cause of her appeal was always exotic, wavering enticingly between goddess and slave. Too images in Morocco encapsulated perfectly throughout time. First, there’s the sultry singing address in Tuxedo and top path tossing a rose to legionnaire Gary Cooper before kissing the female audience member on the lips then there was the devoted camp follower sharing her shoes as she heads out into the desert to follow her man at the end of the film, the legendary, lovely Marlene indeed.
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