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Marlene Dietrich
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27 December 1901 - 6 May 1992
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Marlene Dietrich was born on December 27, 1901 in Berlin in a military family and the daughter of a rich jeweler. From early childhood, Marlene studied French and English, playing the violin, piano, as well as the ability to behave in society.
In 1920, Marlene Dietrich began to study at the school-studio of Max Reinhardt, where she was noticed by the assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who selected her for filming in the film “The Tragedy of Love”. After this debut, Marlene and Rudolph got engaged,
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Marlene Dietrich was born on December 27, 1901 in Berlin in a military family and the daughter of a rich jeweler. From early childhood, Marlene studied French and English, playing the violin, piano, as well as the ability to behave in society.
In 1920, Marlene Dietrich began to study at the school-studio of Max Reinhardt, where she was noticed by the assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who selected her for filming in the film “The Tragedy of Love”. After this debut, Marlene and Rudolph got engaged, and a year later married. The birth of a daughter Maria and the joys of family life left only a little time for episodic roles in the theater.
In 1928, the first record of Marlene Dietrich’s songs “It Soars in the Air” was released. During the play "Two ties with a butterfly" she was noticed by a famous Hollywood
. Seeing Marlene, he immediately realized that the search for a “mythical” woman for a role in the film. Blue Angel It's finally over. Marlene Dietrich was approved for this role, and it was “Blue Angel” that became the beginning of a successful creative career for the great actress.
The desire to continue his creative work, as well as irreconcilable contradictions with the Nazi regime, led Marlene Dietrich to emigrate to the United States in 1930. Six films in which she starred in Hollywood - "Morocco" (1930); "Dishonored" (1931); "Blonde Venus" (1932); "Shanghai Express" (1932); "Song of Songs", (1933); "The Devil is a Woman" (1935) - brought the actress world popularity. Since the mid-30s, Dietrich was one of the highest paid actresses of that time.
Participation in concerts for the American military during the Second World War led to the flowering of the pop talent of the actress, and in the postwar years she traveled around the world with her show as a singer. His career ended with an accident on stage in 1979: Marlene Dietrich fell and suffered a complicated hip fracture. Marlene Dietrich spent the last 13 years of her life in her mansion in Paris, confined to her bed, keeping in touch with the outside world only with her phone. In 1979 a book by Marlene Dietrich was published in Germany.
The ABC of My Life .
Marlene Dietrich died on May 6, 1992.