Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco , Dishonored , Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus , The Scarlet Empress , The Devil Is a Woman , Desire , and Destry Rides Again . She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses. Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair , Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright , Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution , Orson Welles's Touch of Evil , and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg , she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.
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