Marlene Dietrich Actor
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Dec 27, 1901
- Died: May 6, 1992
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.
Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, 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 garnered her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest-paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a U.S. citizen in 1939, and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to 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.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
forgiveness
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
courage
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
friendship
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
men
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
home
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
greatness & money
Grumbling is the death of love.
death
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
change & women
I never enjoyed working in a film.
movies
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
death