About
Marlene Dietrich
Overview
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German 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 US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalized 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 1937; during World War II, she was a high-profile front-line entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s through 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.
Known for
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| 2023 | Phantom | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Normandie ne partira pas ce soir | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2021 | Cher: In Her Own Words | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | Beautiful Like a Poem | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2019 | Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | We Know How to Deal With Spies | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2018 | Bodies and Spaces, Fabric and Light | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Weimar on the Pacific | Actor | herself (archival footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | 100 Years of the UFA | Actor | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Becoming Cary Grant | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Actor | Countess Alexandra Vladinoff (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Filmlegenden. Deutsch | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Great Yiddish Love | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | Actor | (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1991 | The Meeting of Two Queens | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking | Actor | (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Marlene | Actor | Herself (Voice) | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Just a Gigolo | Actor | Baroness von Semering | 58 Average |
| 1973 | I Wish You Love | Actor | Herself | 59 Average |
| 1965 | Triumph Over Violence | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 60 Fair |
| 1965 | The Love Goddesses | Actor | (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1964 | Paris When It Sizzles | Actor | Marlene Dietrich (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1962 | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Actor | Mrs. Bertholt | 72 Good |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | Actor | Tana | 73 Good |
| 1957 | Witness for the Prosecution | Actor | Christine | 75 Good |
| 1956 | The Monte Carlo Story | Actor | Maria de Crevecoeur | 59 Average |
| 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Actor | Saloon Hostess | 62 Fair |
| 1952 | Rancho Notorious | Actor | Altar Keane | 59 Average |
| 1951 | No Highway in the Sky | Actor | Monica Teasdale | 59 Average |
| 1950 | Stage Fright | Actor | Charlotte Inwood | 62 Fair |
| 1949 | Jigsaw | Actor | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1948 | A Foreign Affair | Actor | Erika Von Schlüetow | 61 Fair |
| 1947 | Golden Earrings | Actor | Lydia | 59 Average |
| 1946 | The Room Upstairs | Actor | Blanche Ferrand | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Kismet | Actor | Jamilla | 58 Average |
| 1944 | Memo for Joe | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1944 | Follow the Boys | Actor | Marlene Dietrich | 58 Average |
| 1943 | Show-Business at War | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1942 | Breakdowns of 1942 | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1942 | Pittsburgh | Actor | Josie 'Hunky' Winters | 59 Average |
| 1942 | The Spoilers | Actor | Cherry Malotte | 59 Average |
| 1942 | The Lady Is Willing | Actor | Elizabeth Madden | 59 Average |
| 1941 | Manpower | Actor | Fay Duval | 59 Average |
| 1941 | The Flame of New Orleans | Actor | Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Seven Sinners | Actor | Bijou | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Destry Rides Again | Actor | Frenchy | 61 Fair |
| 1937 | Angel | Actor | Lady Maria Barker, aka Angel | 60 Fair |
| 1937 | Knight Without Armour | Actor | Countess Alexandra Vladinoff | 58 Average |
| 1936 | The Garden of Allah | Actor | Domini Enfilden | 58 Average |
| 1936 | Desire | Actor | Madeleine de Beaupré | 59 Average |
| 1935 | The Fashion Side of Hollywood | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1935 | The Devil Is a Woman | Actor | Concha Perez | 59 Average |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Empress | Actor | Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II | 60 Fair |
| 1933 | The Song of Songs | Actor | Lily Czepanek | 59 Average |
| 1933 | The Film Parade | Actor | (archive footage) (uncredited) | N/A N/A |
| 1932 | Blonde Venus | Actor | Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones | 60 Fair |
| 1932 | Shanghai Express | Actor | Shanghai Lily | 61 Fair |
| 1931 | Dishonored | Actor | Magda / X27 | 60 Fair |
| 1930 | Marlene Dietrich, “The Blue Angel” Screen Test | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1930 | Morocco | Actor | Mademoiselle Amy Jolly | 59 Average |
| 1930 | The Blue Angel | Actor | Lola Lola | 64 Fair |
| 1930 | Dangers of the Engagement | Actor | Evelyne | 58 Average |
| 1929 | The Ship of Lost Men | Actor | Ethel Marley | 58 Average |
| 1929 | The Woman Men Yearn For | Actor | Stascha | 58 Average |
| 1929 | I Kiss Your Hand, Madame | Actor | Laurence Gerard / Lucille | 58 Average |
| 1928 | Art of Love | Actor | Chichotte de Gastoné | N/A N/A |
| 1927 | Cafe Electric | Actor | Erni Göttlinger - ein flatterhaftes Mädchen | 59 Average |
| 1927 | His Greatest Bluff | Actor | Yvette | N/A N/A |
| 1927 | Heads Up, Charley | Actor | Edmée Marchand | N/A N/A |
| 1927 | The Imaginary Baron | Actor | Sophie | N/A N/A |
| 1927 | A Modern Dubarry | Actor | Kokotte | N/A N/A |
| 1926 | Manon Lescaut | Actor | Micheline | 58 Average |
| 1925 | Her Dancing Partner | Actor | Dancer (Extra) | N/A N/A |
| 1924 | Leap Into Life | Actor | Mädchen | N/A N/A |
| 1923 | The Countess of Paris | Actor | Lucie | N/A N/A |
| 1923 | The Tragedy of Love | Actor | Lucy | N/A N/A |
| 1923 | Man by the Roadside | Actor | Krämerstochter | N/A N/A |
| 1919 | Im Schatten des Glücks | Actor | (unconfirmed) | N/A N/A |