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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich , 1901-92, German-American film actress and singer, b. Berlin. Dietrich began her career as a violinist. She then studied drama, appearing on the stage in Vienna and Berlin before her great film success as the femme fatale Lola in The Blue Angel (1930). In the late 1930s, she modi... Read more
Joseph Von Sternberg
Joseph Von Sternberg (Jo Sternberg), 1894-1969, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter. Von Sternberg, who worked in the United States from 1925, made films that were noted for their dazzling visual impact and attention to physical detail. His early works include The Salvation Hunters (... Read more
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motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Marlene Dietrich"

Dietrich, Marlene
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Marlene Dietrich Film star Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992) was one of the twentieth century's most...spoiled insolence, frosty indifference or smoldering lust." Dietrich was born on December 27, 1901, in a suburb of Berlin, Germany... Read more
Marlene Dietrich
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1901-92, German-American film actress and singer, b. Berlin. Dietrich began her career as a violinist. She then studied drama, appearing on the stage in Vienna and Berlin before her great film success... Read more
Burt Bacharach
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...career playing piano with jazz bands in the 1940s and then as a pianist and arranger for nightclub acts, notably with Marlene Dietrich in the 1950s. With lyricist Hal David, Bacharach produced many popular songs from the late 1950s to the early 1970s... Read more
Joseph Von Sternberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Angel (1930) with Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich, made in Germany. The film depicts...humiliation. Von Sternberg directed Dietrich in several other films (including...of the Image: Josef Von Sternberg's Dietrich Films (1988). Read more
Wong, Anna May
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...appeared in the thriller Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992). Wong's portrayal of the bad-girl-turned-good inspired better reviews than Dietrich received. Years later, the star would complain that... Read more
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...best-known plays. Molly is a saloon waitress whose shift is interrupted by dream sequences of herself as 1930s actress Marlene Dietrich. It appeared in the first published collection of Forn é s's drama, Promenade and Other Plays, in 1971. Her... Read more
Wayne, John
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...years passed his only admission to age was from the roles he played. He went from wooing leading ladies, such as Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992) ( Pittsburgh, 1942), Gail Russell ( Angel and the Badman, 1947), and Patricia Neal ( Operation... Read more
John Wayne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...to age was the gradual elimination of romance from the roles he played. He went from wooing leading ladies such as Marlene Dietrich ( Pittsburgh, 1942), Gail Russell ( Angel and the Badman, 1947), and Patricia Neal ( Operation Pacific, 1951) to... Read more
Grant, Cary
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...working-class background. His credentials as a traditional leading man were established with his appearance opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blond Venus. The perfect format for displaying Grant's verbal and physical agility was in the screwball comedies... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Marlene Dietrich"

Dietrich, Marlene
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers DIETRICH, Marlene Nationality: American. Born: Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Berlin, Germany, 27 December 1901 (some sources list 1904); became citizen of United States, 1939. Education: Attended the Augusta... Read more
Marlene
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Marlene ♀ Contracted form of Latin Maria Magdalene (see Madeleine...certainly the most famous, bearer of the name was the film star Marlene Dietrich (1901–92), who was born Marie Magdalene. The name...popularized in the 1940s by the wartime German song ‘Lili Marlene’, ... Read more
The Devil is a Woman
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Rainger and Leo Robin. Cast: Marlene Dietrich ( Concha Perez ); Cesar Romero...London, 1949. Griffith, Richard, Marlene Dietrich — Image and Legend...New York, 1967. Kobal, John, Marlene Dietrich , New York, 1968. Dickens, Homer... Read more
The Scarlet Empress
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...designer: Travis Banton. Cast: Marlene Dietrich ( Sophia Fredericka , or Catherine...London, 1949. Griffith, Richard, Marlene Dietrich — Image and Legend...Donald, Falling in Love Again: Marlene Dietrich , Boston, 1985. Dietrich, Marlene... Read more
Der Blaue Engel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Jannings ( Immanuel Rath ); Marlene Dietrich ( Lola Frolich ); Rosa Valetti...London, 1949. Griffith, Richard, Marlene Dietrich — Image and Legend...London, 1984. Seydel, Renate, Marlene Dietrich: Eine Chronik ihres Lebens in... Read more
von Sternberg, Josef
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013; 35; began collaboration with Marlene Dietrich on Der blaue Engel , made for UFA...Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic...the Image: Josef von Sternberg's Dietrich Films , Cranbury, New Jersey, 1988... Read more
Bacharach, Burt
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...toured America and Europe as musical director for Marlene Dietrich; 1962 — Bacharach and David started to write...whistle." From 1958 to 1961 he was musical director for Marlene Dietrich, touring Europe and the United States with her. He... Read more
Schultze, Norbert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...x2013;1983), which was taken up during the Second World War by Ger. and Allied soldiers and sung by, among others, Marlene Dietrich, Ann Shelton, and Vera Lynn. First recorded 1939 by Lale Andersen. Eng. vers. by Tommy Connor. Read more
Touch of Evil
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Quinlan ); Joseph Calleia ( Pete Menzies ); Akim Tamiroff ( Uncle Joe Grandi ); Joanna Moore ( Marcia Linnekar ); Marlene Dietrich ( Tanya ); Ray Collins ( Adair ); Dennis Weaver ( Motel manager ); Victor Millan ( Manolo Sanchez ); Lalo Rios... Read more
Welles, Orson
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1943 Jane Eyre (R. Stevenson) (role as Edward Rochester) 1944 Follow the Boys (Sutherland) (revue appearance with Marlene Dietrich) 1945 Tomorrow Is Forever (Pichel) (role as John McDonald) 1946 Duel in the Sun (Vidor) (off-screen narration) 1947... Read more

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Marlene Dietrich.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/24/1993; ; 700+ words ; MARLENE DIETRICH was nearly as old as the century. She...Broadway. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Marlene Dietrich . . . the tish of cymbals, the wah...own ambition to be larger than life. Marlene Dietrich is written by her daughter, Maria Riva... Read more
Dish from Dietrich's daughter: Maria Riva, daughter of Marlene Dietrich, addresses those lesbian rumors about her mother--as a new book and a TV documentary celebrate the star's 100th birthday. (Books).(Brief Article)(Interview)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 1/22/2002; ; 399 words ; Ah, Marlene Dietrich. Her beauty was considerable, but...chance to fall in love yet again, with Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories (Knopf...intelligent? Hardly. Find more on the book Marlene Dietrich ... and the Turner Classic Movies... Read more
Blue Angel - The Life of Marlene Dietrich.
Magazine article from: Video Age International; 11/1/1992; ; 357 words ; BLUE ANGEL--The Life of Marlene Dietrich by Donald S poto (Doubleday...comparatively little was known about Marlene Dietrich, the German-born star, and her...on the demands of her career. Marlene Dietrich, thanks to Spoto's skills, emerges... Read more
THE MOMENT A STAR IS DISCOVERED.(Marlene Dietrich, actress)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Interview; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...graveyard bust of the elderly Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich is dead, the painting says...the glorious Weimar slut Dietrich played in The Blue Angel...Kracauer went on to imply that Dietrich had no sense of what lay...critics have questioned what Dietrich did or didn't know ... Read more
Directing Marlene.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 4/27/1999; ; 698 words ; ...the legend of Dietrich to the Broadway stage Marlene Dietrich was the original...helping to bring Dietrich's artistry to...generation with Marlene, a new Broadway...standards Lili Marlene and, of course, that song, as Dietrich calls it, Falling... Read more
(movie review)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 1/22/2002; ; 321 words ; Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song * Written by Karin...listings) Starting on December 27 (Marlene's 100th birthday), Dietrich fans can celebrate as Turner Classic...the fascinating new documentary Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song, which focuses not... Read more
Shots in the dark: why the lure of the old-timers is still so strong.(Movie Column)
Magazine article from: Interview; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...that Gwyneth Paltrow had been cast as Marlene Dietrich in a film based on Maria Riva's memoir about her mother. Though the Dietrich mystique is inimitable, Paltrow is capable of capturing Dietrich's hauteur and erotic languor onscreen... Read more
The Blue Angel. (Home Video).
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...The Blue Angel is Marlene Dietrich, sauntering regally...flirty, coltish Marlene cooed, You're the...premiered in Berlin, Dietrich had sailed off...interview with Dietrich in Stockholm, a...performances when Dietrich was in her baroque phase impersonating Dietrich, and best of ... Read more
(book review)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 12/5/2000; ; 429 words ; ...the lesbian amours of Garbo, Dietrich, and Hollywood's golden girls...these names: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Alla...pitifully with the deaths of Dietrich and Garbo in the early 1990s...long-held secret of Garbo and Dietrich's own love affair, which McLellan... Read more
Words beyond light.(Special Poetry Feature)(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; take my hand in April 1930 Marlene Dietrich arrived in America soon she was staring at a chalked sign saying...help this is the opening shot of Morocco on the Paramount lot Dietrich floats down on Hollywood in a dress like jessamine all late... Read more