Biographies: Marlene Dietrich - Actor

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Marlene Dietrich was a German actress, born in Schöneberg, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire, on December 27, 1901 as Marie Magdalene Dietrich. She mastered playing the violin and piano, joined an acting school and worked as a singer in a cabaret, where she met her future husband in 1924. Marilyn appeared in many silent films until she met the director and producer Josef von Sternberg, who gave her a role in The Blue Angel (1930), which achieved remarkable success. After WWII, she continued appearing in films, worked as a singer in Las Vegas, and sometimes as a stage actress on Broadway. Among her most notable films: The Blue Angel (1930), Destry Rides Again (1939), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Marlene Dietrich died on May 6, 1992 in Paris, France, of kidney failure.

• 29 August 2021
• Dalia Saad