Marlene Dietrich
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German actress and singer, born Marie Magdalene Dietrich in 1901. She became an international star with The Blue Angel (1930), in which she introduced the song "Falling in Love Again," and followed director Josef von Sternberg to Hollywood, where they made Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and five more films together. Known for her androgynous glamour and smoky voice, she also toured as a cabaret performer for decades. She became a U.S. citizen and entertained American troops during World War II. She died in 1992.
Acted In
Romance, Drama
Josef von Sternberg's first Hollywood film with Marlene Dietrich, made immediately after The Blue Angel launched her to stardom. She plays Amy Jolly, a cabaret singer who arrives in Morocco with no money and fewer illusions, and falls for a Legionnaire played by Gary Cooper. Adolphe Menjou is the wealthy man who offers her everything except the one thing she wants. The film is famous for Dietrich's performance in a man's tailcoat, kissing a woman in the audience, a scene considered scandalous in 1930. Lee Garmes's photography wraps the desert and the nightclub in the same haze of smoke and shadow. Dietrich received the only Academy Award nomination of her career for this role. Published in 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026.
Romance · Drama · War
Morocco
1930 - as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
Drama, Music
Josef von Sternberg's adaptation of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat follows a respectable schoolteacher, Immanuel Rath, who is undone by his infatuation with Lola Lola, the cabaret singer at the Blue Angel. Emil Jannings plays the professor's descent from authority to humiliation, and Marlene Dietrich, in her breakthrough role, introduces "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)." Von Sternberg's command of light and shadow gives the cabaret scenes a smoky opulence that defined his style. The film made Dietrich an international star and launched her seven-film collaboration with von Sternberg in Hollywood. Published in 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026.
Drama · Music
The Blue Angel
1930 - as Lola Lola