Marlene Dietrich

1901-1992

Biography: life and films

Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer whose birth name was Marie Magdalene Dietrich. She was born in Schöneberg, Germany on 27th December 1901 and died in Paris, France on 6th May 1992, aged 90.

Her best films as an actor include Josef von Sternberg's Der Blaue Engel (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), The Devil Is a Woman (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller Stage Fright (1950) and Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Marlene Dietrich appeared in 61 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Josef von Sternberg (7 films), Alexander Korda (3), William Dieterle (2), Willi Wolff (2), Robert Land (2), Mitchell Leisen (2) and Billy Wilder (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (35 films), romance (12), comedy-drama (10), comedy-romance (8), Documentary (8), history (6), comedy (6), War (6), Thriller (4), Biography (4), Western (3), crime-thriller (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Marlene Dietrich over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Im Schatten des Glücks (1919) [a]

Der Mensch am Wege (1923) [a]

So sind die Männer (1923) [a]

Tragödie der Liebe (1923) [a]

Der Mönch von Santarem (1924) [a]

Der Sprung ins Leben (1924) [a]

Der Tänzer meiner Frau (1925) [a]

Madame wünscht keine Kinder (1926) [a]

Manon Lescaut (1926) [a]

Café Elektric (1927) [a]

Der Juxbaron (1927) [a]

Eine Dubarry von heute (1927) [a]

Kopf hoch, Charly! (1927) [a]

Sein größter Bluff (1927) [a]

Prinzessin Olala (1928) [a]

Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929) [a]

Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (1929) [a]

Gefahren der Brautzeit (1929) [a]

Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1929) [a]

Der Blaue Engel (1930) [a]

Morocco (1930) [a]

Dishonored (1931) [a]

Blonde Venus (1932) [a]

Shanghai Express (1932) [a]

The Song of Songs (1933) [a]

The Scarlet Empress (1934) [a]

The Devil Is a Woman (1935) [a]

Desire (1936) [a]

I Loved a Soldier (1936) [a]

The Garden of Allah (1936) [a]

Angel (1937) [a]

Knight Without Armour (1937) [a]

Destry Rides Again (1939) [a]

Seven Sinners (1940) [a]

Manpower (1941) [a]

The Flame of New Orleans (1941) [a]

Pittsburgh (1942) [a]

The Lady Is Willing (1942) [a]

The Spoilers (1942) [a]

Follow the Boys (1944) [a]

Kismet (1944) [a]

Martin Roumagnac (1946) [a]

Golden Earrings (1947) [a]

A Foreign Affair (1948) [a]

Jigsaw (1949) [a]

Stage Fright (1950) [a]

No Highway (1951) [a]

Rancho Notorious (1952) [a]

Montecarlo (1957) [a]

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) [a]

Touch of Evil (1958) [a]

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) [a]

Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962) [a]

Paris When It Sizzles (1964) [a]

The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]

That's Action (1977) [a]

Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978) [a]

Der gelbe Stern (1981) [a]

Marlene (1984) [a]

Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl (1993) [a]

Entertaining the Troops (1994) [a]

Paragraph 175 (2000) [a]



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