Marlene Dietrich, the German actress of Hollywood’s Golden Era, is being celebrated with Wednesday’s Google Doodle. Marlene Dietrich gained success in Germany during the 1930s, and was in Germany’s ...

Marlene Dietrich’s greatest performance — or certainly her most volcanic, bilious, and indignant — occurs in a film in which the screen deity insisted she be invisible. At the age of 80, deep into her ...

Whenever anyone ever asks me, “Where were you born?” my answer is, “Hollywood!” The follow-up question usually is, “Did you know any stars?” “YES,” I always say. “In fact, I was in a movie myself — ...

Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...

1932: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992) as Madeline or Shanghai Lily in the film 'Shanghai Express', directed by Josef von Sternberg. Costumes by Travis Banton. (Photo by Don English/John Kobal ...

Marlene Dietrich made her way to a recording studio in the middle of New York’s Times Square, about to give one of the most audacious performances of her career. The Berlin-born screen siren had ...

The 20th century gave rise to one of the most enduring symbols of admiration and derision: The celebrity. Our technology may have advanced, but the desire for images and proximity to celebrities has ...

Konstantin Paustovsky’s The Story of a Life was Marlene Dietrich’s desert island book. Now it’s time the rest of us discovered it, says Julian Evans It was actress Marlene Dietrich’s praise for ...