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14 unusual facts about Marlène Dietrich


1010 Marlene

It was later named after Marlene Dietrich, with the 1010 identifier indicating the order of the minor planet discovery.

Betty Compson

In 1930, she made a version of The Spoilers in which she played the role later portrayed by similar-looking Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 remake, while Gary Cooper played the part subsequently acted in the later film by John Wayne, perhaps the only time that Cooper and Wayne played precisely the same role.

Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

In 2007, the Institute was part in the organization of a DEFA/GDR film festival relating to the topic "German Cinema from behind the Iron Curtain" and, in 2008, hosted a musical drama with the title "The Myth and the Real Life of Marlene Dietrich".

Caroline Nin

Caroline Nin is a French jazz singer and chanteuse, notable for her interpretations of the songs of Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf.

Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick

Listed with a string of high-profile affairs including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard, he was famed for socialising within celebrity circles.

Chuck-a-luck

In Fritz Lang's 1952 film, Rancho Notorious, chuck-a-luck is the name of the ranch run by Altar Keane (played by Marlene Dietrich) where outlaws hide from the law.

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.

Maria Curcio

She and her husband divorced in 1971 after he had a relationship with Marlene Dietrich.

Marlène

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.

Memorial to the German Resistance

The same point is made about other Germans who went into exile and assisted the Allied war effort against Germany, such as Marlene Dietrich.

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.

The Portrait Now

Varied subjects included self-portraits: Koons, Beltrami, Neel, Penck, less known figures and some famous names: Joseph Beuys by Warhol, Marlene Dietrich by Finer, President Mitterrand by Organ, Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Marisol, Seamus Heaney by Edwards, and 'The Smoking Man' a video portrait by Marty St.James.

The Witness for the Prosecution

The play was also made into a 1957 film, starring Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfred and Marlene Dietrich as Romaine (whose name is changed to "Christine")

Theme for Young Lovers

The song was also released by Marlene Dietrich as "Ich werde Dich lieben" with German lyrics by herself.


Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

Bodeguita del medio

Numerous artists and celebrities were regulars of the Bodeguita : the poet Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriela Mistral, Agustín Lara, Nat King Cole, Marlene Dietrich, Nicolás Guillén and Ernest Hemingway.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Among many anecdotes in the film, Jack Cardiff relates what it was like to work with Hollywood’s greatest icons: Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Carlton Cinema, Dublin

Many concerts were held on the stage in the 1970s, including performances by Duke Ellington, Cleo Lane, Johnny Cash, James Last, Fats Domino, Nana Mouskouri, Marlene Dietrich, and Don McLean.

Cornel Lucas

Cornel Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice).

Deutscher Filmpreis

Since 1999 the award has been a statuette of a woman known as the Lola, a reference to Marlene Dietrich's role in Der blaue Engel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Lola.

Ernst Bader

Actors who have performed songs written or produced by Ernst Bader include Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Dalida, Nana Mouskouri, and Freddy Quinn.

Felix Jackson

Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.

Frank Barrie

In 2008, Barrie was cast as Noël Coward in the original London production of Lunch with Marlene, a play about the friendship between Coward and fellow acting legend Marlene Dietrich.

Fred Joaillier

The first store opened in Paris in 1936 and became famous for its jewels designed by Jean Cocteau, and for its famous client such as Marlène Dietrich or Grace Kelly.

Fringe World

A unique architectural jewel, the mystical venue has hosted legends such as Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin and Gypsy Rose Lee.

Gerovital

During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Gerovital treatments were reportedly administered to John F. Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and Salvador Dalí.

Hans Androschin

His work as cinematographer also includes Café Elektric (1927) with the first main roles of the German movie star Marlene Dietrich and the later important Austrian actor and director Willi Forst.

Inside, Outside

Among the famous people Goodkind comes face to face with in the course of the book besides Nixon are Golda Meir, Zero Mostel, Bert Lahr, Marlene Dietrich, John Barrymore, Ernest Hemingway, Leslie Howard, and the brothers George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.

Irina Ponarovskaya

In 1996, representatives of the house of Fashion "Chanel" awarded her the title of "Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union", and in 1998 an Italian company, whose clothes are worn by the favorite actresses of Ponarovskaya as Marlene Dietrich and Romy Schneider, invited her to become a "person" firm.

Jeanette Schmid

Following her Iran performance, Schmid toured the world as a cross-dressing whistler, performing on stage with acts like Frank Sinatra, Édith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich while living in Cairo.

Kathlyn Williams

Williams played "Cherry Malotte" in the first movie based upon Rex Beach's 1906 novel The Spoilers in 1914, a role portrayed in subsequent versions by Betty Compson (1930), Marlene Dietrich (1942), and Anne Baxter (1955).

Laura Mulvey

Queer theory, such as that by Richard Dyer, has grounded its work in Mulvey to explore the complex projections that many gay men and women fix onto certain female stars (e.g. Doris Day, Liza Minnelli, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland).

Let's Shake Hands

The single is backed with a cover of "Look Me Over Closely," a song written for Marlene Dietrich by folk musician Terry Gilkyson.

Lynne Carter

He impersonated many famous actresses and singers including Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Fanny Brice, Carol Channing, Cher, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Phyllis Diller, Hermione Gingold, Hildegarde, Eartha Kitt, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Kay Thompson, and Mae West.

Richard Tauber

He also provided a 'voice-over', singing the title song in the otherwise silent film I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929), starring Marlene Dietrich and Harry Liedtke.

Robert Smythe Hichens

The Garden of Allah (1904), elaborately presented as a play in New York City and filmed thrice, in 1916, 1927 (with Alice Terry) and 1936 (one of the earliest 3-strip Technicolor features, with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer)

Rory MacLean

For ten years he made movies with moderate success, working with David Hemmings and Ken Russell in England, David Bowie in Berlin and Marlene Dietrich in Paris.

Thanks, I'll Eat It Here

The album was released just before the death of Lowell George in 1979 and has cover art by Neon Park (a feature of almost all Little Feat albums) containing several pop-/cult references including a picnic scene, mirroring Édouard Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", which shows Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro and Marlene Dietrich as Der Blaue Engel with an open copy of Howl beside them.

The Mercury Wonder Show

The Mercury Wonder Show was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Rita Hayworth (with Hayworth's part later filled in by Marlene Dietrich).

The Night Porter

In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte" to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards" her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates, a reference to Salome.

The Norconian Resort Supreme

Actress Kay Francis was in charge of hospital morale, and she saw to it that many of the stars who frequented the resort now entertained the patients; including The Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Harry James, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Kay Kyser, James Cagney, Clark Gable and dozens of others.

Thea Dorn

The same year she wrote the theatrical piece Marleni, a staged meeting of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl.