Marlene dietrich biography berlin lyrics
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Dietrich, Marlene
Nationality: American. Born: Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Berlin, Germany, 27 December 1901 (some sources list 1904); became citizen of United States, 1939. Education: Attended the Augusta Victoria School, Berlin, and boarding schools in Weimar; Hochschule für Musik. Family: Married Rudolf Sieber, 1924 (separated 1939), daughter: Maria. Career: Early 1920s—chorus girl in revue circuit in Germany; 1922—accepted into Max Reinhardt's Deutsche Theaterschule; began appearing in films for Ufa, debut in So sind die Männer; 1928—first starring film role in Prinzessin Olala; 1930—in the first German talking film, Der blaue Engel, beginning long personal and professional relationship with director Josef von Sternberg; contract with Paramount and moved to Hollywood; 1935—in last film for von Sternberg, The Devil Is a Woman; 1936—walked out on Paramount contract and began freelancing for other studios; 1937—approached by Nazi agents with offer to return to
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by Emrys Westacott
Lili Marleen is one of the best known songs of the twentieth century. A plaintive expression of a soldier’s desire to be with his girlfriend, it is indelibly associated with World War II, in part because it was popular with soldiers on both sides. It was first recorded by the German singer Lale Anderson in 1939. The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels disliked the song and initially banned it from the radio, probably because it expresses a preference for staying at home rather than going off to war. But in 1941 he granted a Belgrade-based radio station in German-occupied Yugoslavia permission to broadcast it. Apparently, Rommel, commander of the German troops in North Africa, liked the song, Goebbels relented, and soon Radio Belgrade (which had a very limited supply of disks available) was playing it every night as their sign-off tune. It quickly became popular with both German and allied forces. Anderson recorded an Eng
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German singer and actress Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (real name Marie Magdalene Dietrich; * December 27, 1901 in Schöneberg, now Berlin; † May 6, 1992 in Paris) was a German-American actress and singer. Considered a Hollywood and style icon, Dietrich is one of the few 20th-century German-speaking performers who also achieved international fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her one of the 25 greatest female screen legends of all time. Characterized by her long legs, smoky, erotic voice and pantsuits, which she made acceptable for women to wear in the 1930s.
Dietrich began her career as an actress in the theater and silent films of the Roaring Twenties in Berlin. She rose to international stardom in 1930 with the leading role in director Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel. With him, she went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, where she was signed by Paramount. Alongside Gary Cooper, she made the drama Morocco (1930), for which she received an Os