It was in musicals and revues such as Broadway, Es Liegt in der Luft, and Zwei Krawatten, however, that she attracted the most attention. 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. ĭietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, was born on 13 December 1924. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on. She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of Tragedy of Love in 1923. In 1922, Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impresario Max Reinhardt's drama academy however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas.ĭietrich's film debut was a small part in the film The Little Napoleon (1923).
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The earliest professional stage appearances by Dietrich were as a chorus girl on tour with Guido Thielscher's Girl-Kabarett vaudeville-style entertainments, and in Rudolf Nelson revues in Berlin. A wrist injury curtailed her dreams of becoming a concert violinist, but by 1922 she had her first job, playing violin in a pit orchestra for silent films at a Berlin cinema. She studied the violin and became interested in theater and poetry as a teenager.
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Dietrich attended the Auguste-Viktoria Girls' School from 1907 to 1917 and graduated from the Victoria-Luise-Schule (today Goethe-Gymnasium ) in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, in 1918. Aged about 11, she combined her first two names to form the name "Marlene".
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ĭietrich's family nicknamed her "Lena", "Lene", or "Leni" ( IPA: ). Von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich sisters, so Dietrich's surname was never von Losch, as has sometimes been claimed. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocratic first lieutenant in the Grenadiers, courted Wilhelmina and married her in 1914, but he died in July 1916 from injuries sustained during the First World War. Dietrich had one sibling, Elisabeth, who was one year older. Her father, Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, was a police lieutenant. Her mother, Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josefine ( née Felsing), was from an affluent Berlin family who owned a jewelry and clock-making firm. ĭietrich's birthplace in Leberstraße 65, Berlin- Schönebergĭietrich was born at Leberstraße 65 in the neighborhood of Rote Insel in Schöneberg, now a district of Berlin. In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema.
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For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium and Israel. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.ĭietrich was known for her humanitarian efforts during World War II, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their American citizenship. Throughout World War II she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus (both 1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935), Desire (1936) and Destry Rides Again (1939). Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Marie Magdalene " Marlene" Dietrich ( / m ɑːr ˈ l eɪ n ə ˈ d iː t r ɪ k/, German: ( listen) 27 December 1901 – ) was a German-born American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.