Marlène Dietrich

See also: Dietrich

Marlène Dietrich (in German: Marl' e' Dietrich) is not an actress, American singer, of German origin . It was born the December 27th 1901 with Berlin - Schöneberg, in Germany and died the May 6th 1992 with Paris in France. It was a time the MUSE of the scenario writer Josef von Sternberg.

Biography

Youth

Maria Magdalena Dietrich was born the December 27th 1901 with Berlin - Schöneberg, in the Leberstraße (formerly Sedanstraße ). It is the girl junior by Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, Prussian officer, and of Joséphine, born Felsing. His/her Elisabeth older sister was born in 1900. She loses her father, in 1908, when she is 7 years old. At 11 years, it contracts its two first names in Marlene.

His/her mother remarie with Eduard von Losch, officer of cavalry, which adopts Elisabeth and Marlene. Marlene cultivates its gifts for the music and the song, but must however give up the violin following a wound of the wrist. She will play later of the Musical saw. His/her father-in-law is killed in his turn during the First World War, in 1916. From 1919 to 1921 it continues its studies as intern in Weimar.

Its artistic beginnings

It takes its first courses of theater near max Reinhardt in 1921. In 1922, she plays her first small roles with the theater, in particular with the Großes Schauspielhaus , and plays in reviews, like that of the Kurfürstendamm of Berlin, at the sides of the French high-speed motorboat Margo Lion. She obtains also minor roles with the cinema. Its first credited role is Lucy in “Tragedy of the love” of Joe May. It Marie on May 17th, 1923 with Rudolf Sieber and gives rise to her daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, on December 13rd, 1924. She records her first songs, in particular “ Es liegt in der Luft ” (1928).

In 1929, it turns its first big role in “the enigma”. Noticed by Josef von Sternberg, this one recommends it to the Paramount, whose Berliner office an actress seeks to make part with the myth of Greta Garbo, launched by the Subway Goldwin Mayer.

The celebrity

In 1930, it becomes famous with the film the blue Angel of Josef von Sternberg and in particular the song “ Ich bin von Kopf (a) Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt ” (“I am made to like head with the feet”, translated into English by “Falling in again coils”, and taken again many times). Turned in the studios of the Ufa in Babelsberg, this film, which joins together Emil Jannings, in the role of Professor Immanuel Rath, and Marlène Dietrich, in that of Lola Lola, is the first talking film about the German cinema. It transforms this still unknown actress, with the platinized hair, out of star with at the same time bewitching and frozen charisma. The evening of the first, in Gloria Palast, on April 1st, 1930, it raises a long white fur coat, tightens a sheaf of pinks in the arms and relates to its dress, a bouquet of violets pinned… where the women never put any. At 11 p.m., Marlène takes the train at the station of Lehrter, towards the port of Bremerhaven and the boat for New York. It indeed leaves to turn “Morocco” ( Cœurs flarings ) to the United States, film which will be worth to him a nomination with the Oscar S.

Fleeing the mode Nazi, it becomes citizen of the the United States of America in 1937. enthusiastic Anti-Nazi, it sings for the American and British troops stationed with the the United Kingdom, then follows them to France during the release campaign. With the Release of Paris, it finds Jean Gabin, which was his/her lover, and who took part in the countryside as a chief of tank at the 2nd squadron of the regiment armor-plated marine fusiliers. The shortly after the war, its career is with lowest. It appears in minor films like the Large Alibi (1950) of Hitchcock or the Angel of cursed the (1952) of Fritz lang.

In December 1952, it makes an appearance noticed in an official reception with the profit of the handicapped children, vêtue of the uniform of Mr Loyal. This springboard enables him to assemble its own spectacle-cabaret to Las Vegas.

A second career

It starts a career of singer recognized on the scenes of the whole world, accompanied by the arranger Burt Bacharach: Europe in 1960, Israel, the American continent then the the USSR in 1964. Its interpretation of the song “ Sag to mir, wo die Blumen sind ”, composed by Pete Seeger and translated into German by max Colpet, fact of it a projecting figure of the denunciation of the Cold war. It records several major discs like “Dietrich in Rio” (1959), “Wiedersehen put Marlene” (1960) and “Marlene Dietrich in London” (1964). Its scenic work is devoted by its success to Broadway in 1967.

It turns over in its country of origin, Germany, in 1960, but receives a mitigated reception. It is thus attacked with Wiesbaden by an young girl who spits to him with the face. She affirms then by way of press that she will not return any more in her native land and that from now on, “ she and the Germans do not speak any more the same language ”. After a fall in an orchestra pit at the time of a round in Australia in 1975, Marlene Dietrich withdraws scene definitively. She will live recluse in her apartment of the Montaigne avenue, with Paris, until her death.

She dies in Paris, the May 6th 1992. The ceremony takes place with the church of the Madeleine. She is then buried, according to her wishes, not far from her mother in the small cemetery of Friedenau, Stubenrauchstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg.

His/her daughter and her single child, become by her marriage Maria Rivetted, wrote a biography noticed on her mother. In 1983, the Swiss realizer Maximilian Schell had devoted documentary to him preceded to the Cannes festival, heading “Marlene”, in which the actress reconsiders her life without to appear in person.

Berlin after having practically driven out it, request of the posthumous excuses and dedicates to him the place Marlene Dietrich in the modern district of the Potsdamer Platz , near the Museum of Film of Berlin.

Anecdotes

It was named by the American Film Institute ninth better actress of legend of the cinema.

It receives the Légion of honor the January 2nd 1990

Some small secrecies

  • to have hollower cheeks of appearance, it was made tear off the wisdom teeth. What she refutes in addition.

  • It said: “ the relation between the make-up man and the actor is connected with that of the accomplices of a crime. ”

Selective catalog of films

External bonds

  • the official site
  • LEGEND: Tribute to Marlene Dietrich' S concert career
  • Marlene Dietrich the U.K. Website The Legendary, Lovely Marlene
  • 1 {{er}} April 1930 the Exit of '' the blue Angel '' on the site '' Terres of women ''
  • “the Sag song to mir wo die Blumen sind” on German WP
  • the site of a German fan
  • an interesting site with all the small pockets of the discs DE DIETRICH (Cd and vinyls) and of many dates of its rounds

Simple: Marlene Dietrich Zh-yue: 瑪琳黛德麗

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