Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love Again 2006[EAC - FLAC] (oan)

Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a

German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.



Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In

1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The

Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and a contract

with Paramount Pictures in the USA. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire

capitalised on her glamour and exoticism, cementing her stardom and making her one of the

highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1939; during World War II,

she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the

post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a

successful show performer.



In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.



In 1921, Dietrich auditioned unsuccessfully for theatrical director and impressario Max

Reinhardt's drama academy; however, she soon found herself working in his theatres as a

chorus girl and playing small roles in dramas, without attracting any special attention at first.



Dietrich made her film debut playing a bit part in the 1922 film, So sind die Männer. She met

her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of another film made that year, Tragödie der

Liebe. In the G. W. Pabst film, Die freudlose Gasse (1925), the actress playing Elsa is Hertha

von Walther (1903-1987), who looks very much like the young Marlene Dietrich, giving rise to

the false rumor that Dietrich has a bit part in this film.



Dietrich and Sieber were married on 17 May 1924. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth

Sieber, later billed as actress Maria Riva, was born on 13 December 1924.



Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the

1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box,

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as

George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance. It was in musicals and revues,

such as Broadway, Es Liegt in der Luft and Zwei Krawatten, however, that she attracted the

most attention.



By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen - the most notable films

being Café Electric (1927), Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1928) and Das Schiff der

verlorenen Menschen (1929).



In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola-Lola, a cabaret singer who causes the

downfall of a hitherto respected schoolmaster, in UFA's production, The Blue Angel (1930).

The film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, who thereafter took credit for having

"discovered" Dietrich. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced Dietrich's signature

song "Falling in Love Again". December 27, 1901



Birth of Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Berlin-Schoneberg.

Parents: Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Elisabeth Josephine nee Felsing.



1907 - 1919



School in Berlin and Dessau.



1922



First stage roles in Berlin theatres, including the Grosses Schauspielhaus Berlin

(director Max Reinhardt); first small parts in films.



May 17, 1923



Marriage to Rudolf Sieber (1897 - 1976).



December 13, 1924



Birth of daughter Maria Elizabeth Sieber.



1929



First leading part in the film DIE FRAU, NACH DER MAN SICH SEHNT.



October 1929



Screen tests and contract for the film DER BLAUE ENGEL.



April 1, 1930



Premiere of the DER BLAUE ENGEL at the Gloria Palast in Berlin.



April 2, 1930



Departure for America.



November 14, 1930



Premiere of her first American film, MOROCCO.



1935



After seven films together, parting of the ways with her director Josef von Sternberg.



March 6, 1937



Became an American citizen.



1944 - 45



Entertaining American troops in N. Africa and Europe.



1950



The French government awards her the title of “ de la Legion d'Honneur”.

She was later to be promoted "officer" by President Pompidou and “” by President Mitterand.



1953 - 54



Appearances as show performer at the Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas and Cafe de Paris in London.



1960



Publication of the book “ Dietrich's ABC”



1974



Last cabaret/stage performance



1975



Last film performance in “ A Gigolo”



1979



Autobiography published “ nur mein Leben”



1984



Biographical film “” by Maximillian Schell



May 6, 1992



Died in Paris in her sleep; Services at La Madelaine May 10,

Buried in Berlin next to her mother, May 16, 1992.



October 24, 1993



Transfer of her estate effects to the State of Berlin and the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek,

assisted by John Block of Sotheby's (New York)

1. (03:00) - Falling in Love Again

2. (02:35) - I am the Naughty Lola

3. (03:07) - Give me the man

4. (03:01) - You do something to me

5. (03:26) - Lili Marlene

6. (04:08) - Black Market

7. (02:04) - The boys in the Backroom

8. (02:44) - You've got that look

9. (03:10) - Johnny

10. (02:46) - You little so and so

11. (02:38) - I've been in love before

12. (03:10) - You go to my head

13. (02:22) - Good for Nothin'

14. (03:20) - Peter

15. (07:28) - Hot Voodoo

16. (03:32) - Illusions

17. (03:16) - Blonde Women

18. (01:49) - Man's in the Navy

19. (02:48) - In the ruins of Berlin

20. (02:48) - Too old to cut the mustard Playing Time.........: 01:03:14

Total Size...........: 167.12 MB

Included.............: LOG,CUE,MD5

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