Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer. 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 US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalized on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1937; during World War II, she was a high-profile front-line entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s through 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.
Witness for the Prosecution
as ChristineAn ailing famous barrister agrees to defend Leonard Vole in a sensational murder trial where his...
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Touch of Evil
as TanaWhen a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
as Mrs. BertholtIn 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military...
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Shanghai Express
as Shanghai LilyA beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as Saloon HostessBased on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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Paris When It Sizzles
as Marlene Dietrich (uncredited)Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his...
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Stage Fright
as Charlotte InwoodA struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering...
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Rancho Notorious
as Altar KeaneA man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its...
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Blonde Venus
as Helen Faraday, aka Helen JonesIn an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a...
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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
as Self (archive footage)This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through...
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Phantom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to...
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The Blue Angel
as Lola LolaPrim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer...
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A Foreign Affair
as Erika Von SchlüetowIn occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US...
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Destry Rides Again
as FrenchyTom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes...
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Morocco
as Mademoiselle Amy JollyThe Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly...
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The Scarlet Empress
as Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine IIDuring the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine...
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No Highway in the Sky
as Monica TeasdaleJames Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded...
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Seven Sinners
as BijouBanished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was,...
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Dishonored
as Magda / X27The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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The Devil Is a Woman
as Concha PerezIn the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican...
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The Garden of Allah
as Domini EnfildenThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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The Spoilers
as Cherry MalotteWhen honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon...
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Angel
as Lady Maria Barker, aka AngelWhile vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
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Just a Gigolo
as Baroness von SemeringAfter World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Countess Alexandra Vladinoff (archive footage)In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the...
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Follow the Boys
as Marlene DietrichDuring World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every...
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Kismet
as JamillaHafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter...
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Desire
as Madeleine de BeaupréMadeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on...
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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
as Self (archive footage)Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her...
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Becoming Cary Grant
as Self (archive footage)For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From...
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Cher: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female...
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Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
as Narrator (voice)The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
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The Flame of New Orleans
as Countess Claire Ledoux, aka LiliIn old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a...
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Breakdowns of 1942
as SelfFlubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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The Song of Songs
as Lily CzepanekAfter her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily...
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage)The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary...
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses...
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Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...
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Show-Business at War
as SelfA multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Triumph Over Violence
as Self (archive footage)Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to...
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Knight Without Armour
as Countess Alexandra VladinoffBritish agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution...
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The Monte Carlo Story
as Maria de CrevecoeurStylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize...
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Jigsaw
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a...
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Marlene
as Herself (Voice)Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
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Manon Lescaut
as MichelineA French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
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That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of...
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Dangers of the Engagement
as EvelyneA man unknowingly falls madly in love with the fiancé of a close friend who has twice saved his...
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Leap Into Life
as MädchenA young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a...
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The Love Goddesses
as (archive footage)This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...
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The Room Upstairs
as Blanche FerrandThe local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand....
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Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of...
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Pittsburgh
as Josie 'Hunky' WintersCharles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his...
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Manpower
as Fay DuvalHank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...
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The Lady Is Willing
as Elizabeth MaddenBold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a...
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The Fashion Side of Hollywood
as SelfCompilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The...
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The Meeting of Two Queens
as (archive footage)Cecilia Barriga’s culty video montage tells the story of two queens who fall in love,...
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Memo for Joe
as SelfDocumentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and...
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Cafe Electric
as Erni Göttlinger - ein flatterhaftes MädchenThe daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.
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100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the...
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The Ship of Lost Men
as Ethel MarleyA young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a...
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The Imaginary Baron
as SophieThe film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing...
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The Tragedy of Love
as LucyThe husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same...
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Golden Earrings
as LydiaA British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
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Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about film.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
as Self (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
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I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
as Laurence Gerard / LucilleLaurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the...
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The Great Yiddish Love
as (archive footage)Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled...
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No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
as uncreditedBiography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress,...
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The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of...
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Marlene Dietrich, “The Blue Angel” Screen Test
as uncreditedMarlene Dietrich's screen tests for the classic 1930 German film The Blue Angel directed by...
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The Woman Men Yearn For
as StaschaAfter a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances,...
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Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
as uncreditedIt was the world's largest, most beautiful and fastest cruise ship. Built in Saint Nazaire in...
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Tony Awards
as Self - RecipientThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self (archive footage)"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" -...
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