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2 unusual facts about Marlène


Marlène

The song was performed tenth on the night, following Spain's Julio Iglesias with "Gwendolyne" and preceding Germany's Katja Ebstein with "Wunder gibt es immer wieder".

The song is a paean to Marlene Dietrich, whom Dussault famously refers to as "a silhouette in Sexyrama" at one point in the lyrics, before comparing her appearance to that of the star and concluding that she will never live up to the standards of her idol.


Beryl Reid

Her first big success came in the BBC radio show Educating Archie as naughty schoolgirl Monica and later as the Brummie, "Marlene".

Birthright Israel

More than half of the funding comes from philanthropists, among them Charles Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Daniel Och, Marlene Post, Lynn Schusterman, Sheldon Adelson, and Michael Steinhardt.

Butter Braid

Braided pastries were first sold at farmers market in West Bend, Iowa by Ken and Marlene Banwart.

Dominique Horwitz

Today he lives with his second wife Anna and the children Mick and Marlene in Tiefengruben, Bad Berka, a village near Weimar in Thuringia.

Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick is featured in several episodes of the television series The X-Files as Fort Marlene, a play on words of the name of German actress Marlene Dietrich.

Frederic B. Vogel

Having invested in over fifty Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, Vogel co-produced the Tony Award-nominated Marlene, and co-produced the Lucille Lortel Award winning "Shakespeare’s R&J" Off-Broadway, R.T. Robinson’s The Cover of Life in the fall of 1994 at the American Place Theater, as well as co-produced the Off-Broadway musical Lust in June 1995.

Hans-Otto Borgmann

The role originally for Marlene Dietrich was given to Pola Negri who popularised Borgmann's song.

Juliette Kaplan

Juliette Kaplan (born 1939 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England) is a British actress, real (married) name Marlene Hoser.

Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!

This was followed by another successful run in Munich in 1989 that starred Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Jutta Boll, Frithof Vierock and Marlene Budde.

Marlene Boyce

Marlene Boyce is a ficional character in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off series The Green Green Grass, created by John Sullivan.

Marlene Cullen

Marlene Cullen is a writer, editor and workshop facilitator based in Petaluma, California.

Marlene Goldsmith

a Requiem Mass was held for her at St Canice's Church in Elizabeth Bay on 19 April 2000, the church Marlene had married Ian many years before.

Born Marlene Herbert in Gunnedah to parents Cecil and Esme, and brothers Warwick and Mark.

Marlene Kratz

Marlene was an elderly lady who owned a bric-a-brac store and was obsessed with Elvis Presley.

Middletown Folk Festival

It was conceived and produced by Marlene and Dick Levine, who after attending the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and the Fox Hollow Folk Festival in Petersburgh, New York, wanted to have a festival in their own community using local facilities.

Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970

"Marlène" was a song in a pastiche style, in which Dussault compared herself unfavourably to her idol Marlene Dietrich.

Moya O'Sullivan

Alex Fletcher from Digital Spy made Marlene their "DS Icon" on 7 January 2011, calling her a legendary and special character.

Paloma Kwiatkowski

Kwiatkowski plays a main role in Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, a film adaptation of a young adult book by Canadian author Billie Livingston.

Robotech: Love Live Alive

Scott, Marlene/Ariel, Rand, Rook, Lunk, and Annie all take him out for a campfire dinner and talk about what the REF has been up to in the aftermath of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Stranger in the Mirror

The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation – The Hidden Epidemic, 2001 book by Marlene Steinberg and Maxine Schnall

The Mercury Wonder Show

A section of the stage show — in which "Orson the Magnificent" performs tricks like sawing Marlene Dietrich in half — was filmed and included in the 1944 variety film Follow the Boys.

TwinKomplex

Members of the cast include Dieter Bach as Richard Wagener, Irm Hermann as Marlene Girlinger, Anne Ratte-Polle as Anne Sievert, Bernhard Schütz as Maximilian/Benjamin van der Graaf, Christian Brückner as Anton Kaspers, Gerd Wameling as the Officiant, and Christine Utterberg as Virginia Bradford.

Vidas de Fuego

Sebastian Rulli and Marlene Favela actually co-starred in the 2005 telenovela Contra viento y marea (literally, "Against Wind and Tide", or figuratively, "Against All Odds"), playing star-crossed lovers.

Viva Riva!

Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra.

Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

Background vocals by The Originals (Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer) and The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps)

Your Old Standby

Background vocals by The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Louvain Demps, and Marlene Barrow)


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