Dietrich and Wong costarred in the 1932 drama “Shanghai Express.” ...

Coolly sophisticated Marlene Dietrich, a Berlin-born cabaret performer, became an international sensation in 1930's The Blue Angel. Meanwhile, Sweden's Greta Garbo broke hearts playing tragic heroines ...

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 ...

Dietrich began her career in music, performing in various German theatrical stage appearances before landing her first film role in 1923’s The Little Napoleon. Her career grew by leaps and bounds ...

Riva, the only child of screen siren Marlene Dietrich, met the Kennedy family in 1938 in the South of France where both families had come for vacation Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich's daughter, who died ...

“Dietrich is something that never existed before and may never exist again,” the actor Maurice Chevalier said of her. “That’s a woman.” By Peter B. Flint She was her mother’s handmaiden and ...

What did movie stars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich have in common besides great cheekbones and European accents? The ability to exude not-giving-a-damn. I might not be absolutely unattainable, they ...

Speaking in the early 1980s, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) calculated that there had been 55 books written about her and claimed she hadn’t read any of them. “I don’t give a damn about myself,” the ...