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Marlene Dietrich, Mad Hatter! 1936 - 1937 Edition
(Costumes from: Desire, Angel and A Knight Without Armour. Candids show Marlene in Los Angeles, New York, London and Salzburg.)
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Jean Marais reads Jean Cocteau's Salutation to Marlene Dietrich, written in 1954 when Marlene appeared in Monte Carlo for a Polio benefit. (The recording, and Marlene's speech at the end, were likely...
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Photorama: Marlene and Tamara Matul in Berlin
Marlene Dietrich and Tamara Matul model for Berlin’s illustrated magazines (1928 and 1929):
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Earl Wilson's Vintage Gossip Bites: The Great Granny
Excerpts from syndicated gossip columnist, Earl Wilson's 1970s items about Marlene. (Also see his earlier Broadway Bytes!)Marlene Dietrich was enthusiastic about Katharine Hepburn's performance in...
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50 Years Ago: Marlene Dietrich in Warsaw, 1964
Marlene made her debut in Warsaw 50 years ago this month. We covered this visit in depth earlier:Marlene's first visit to Warsaw, 16th January 1964.Marlene brings lilacs to the Ghetto Heroes...
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Marlene Dietrich: Two Legs, To Stand On.
What do you do for your legs to keep them looking so lovely?Nothing. I was born with them.What do you do to exercise them?I just walk on them.Why don't you want to show them anymore?I have nothing new...
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Marlene Dietrich's Beverly Hills Mansion: Then and Now
View Larger Map[Update: Thanks to Joseph's research we've been able to identify Marlene's address in 1935 as 913 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. See the comments section, below, for more...
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Photorama: Marlene Dietrich in Cine-Mundial
Photos from the fan magazine, Cine-Mundial :1935: Marlene on the Paramount LotCharles Boyer and Marlene on the set of the unfinished film, I Loved a Soldier.A beautiful photo of Marlene on the set of...
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The Trouble With Lilly
In 1939, before America's newest siren citizen, Marlene Dietrich sailed for Paris, she stopped by at the New York the salon of Lilly Daché (another European export to the US) for some head gear."I want...
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Another Season, Another Reason For Making . . . Auctions?
***See photos of the auction exhibition here or here***For some, spring cleaning means tossing that can of tuna six months past its "best by" date. For the heirs of Marlene Dietrich, it means holding...
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Doctor Dietrich's Best Production? Her Daughter.
[In 1971, Jeffrey Archer organised a charity midnight matinee (to benefit MIND) at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It was Marlene Dietrich's first concert appearance in London for several years. This...
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Дитрих '64
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marlene's 1964 tour of the USSR, where she performed in Moscow and Leningrad.Marlene was welcomed to Moscow by a group that included actress Tamara...
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Dietrich's Unfinished Film: "I Loved a Soldier" (1936)
“Actresses Come! Actresses Go! Nothing Ever Happens!” may be an apt tagline for Marlene Dietrich's unfinished 1936 film, I Loved a Soldier. The production, a story about a servant girl who falls in...
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Seeing Double in Kismet
Some of the gold paint used in Kismetis still doing the rounds at the museum in Berlin housing Dietrich's collection, seventy years after the film was made. It's fitting, as her gilt legs – in that...
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Travis Banton's Inspiration
It all happened in Texas when Travis was a little boy, seven years old ...His mother and father were going to a great ball given in honour of visiting celebrities. There had been talk of this occasion...
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An Interview with Sauli Miettinen
Marlene Dietrich: Nainen ja tähti [Marlene Dietrich: A Woman and A Star]by Sauli Miettinen Last year, I interviewed Sauli Miettinen, the author of the Finnish language Marlene Dietrich biography,...
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