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  • Biography by Gerd Gemünden
    Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature
    Dartmouth College

    (b. Berlin 1901 – d. Paris 1992)

    Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel

    Born Maria Magdalene Dietrich.

    Actress and chanteuse.

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    The only world star the German cinema ever produced, Marlene Dietrich’s career spans from Weimar Germany to the Hollywood studios where she worked between 1930 and 1961 with the most acclaimed Hollywood directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Ernst Lubitsch, René Clair, Stanley Kramer, and most notably Josef von Sternberg with whom she made seven films between 1929 and 1935.

    Her subsequent career as a singer extended her fame through performances around the world. Combining Prussian discipline and work ethic with an extraordinary talent for reinvention, Dietrich had a professional career of some 70 years, one that included not only classic Hollywood ci