Marlene Dietrich
Born in Berlin in 1901 (although mystery, much of it created by Dietrich herself, surrounds her origins - accounts of her year of birth and even her real name vary). A talented violinist as a teen, she took up acting when she injured her wrist and by 1930
Filmography Highlights
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Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl, The
1991- Rated:
- TBC
Riveting documentary biography that catches up with Hitler's favourite filmmaker to ask whether art can, or should, ever be isolated from its political context
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Marlene
1984- Rated:
- PG
Marlene Dietrich, one of the greatest stars ever to have lived, agrees to participate in a documentary about her dramatic, compelling life. There's only one condition: director Maximilian Schell isn't allowed to actually film her
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Just a Gigolo
1978- Rated:
- TBC
At it's best, this is a strange old movie. It's Berlin not long after the First World War and Bowie is a Prussian veteran who has returned home and drifted into prostitution as a way of making money.
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Judgment At Nuremberg
1961- Rated:
- PG
Stanley Kramer directs Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Maximilian Schell in this dialogue-heavy courtroom drama about the 1948 Nuremberg Trial
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Touch Of Evil
1958- Rated:
- 12
Another Orson Welles masterpiece. The big man stars as a corpulent US cop, facing off against Charlton Heston's Mexican narcotics officer over the border and over murder, corruption and abduction
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Witness For The Prosecution
1957- Rated:
- U
A revered criminal lawyer ignores the advice of his doctors to participate in a sensational murder trial. All-star adaptation of the Agatha Christie play directed by Billy Wilder
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Rancho Notorious
1952- Rated:
- PG
A Wyoming rancher seeks revenge on the man who raped and murdered his fiancée. His search for the killer takes him an infamous ranch, where former saloon singer Marlene Dietrich protects a band of outlaws. Western from Fritz Lang
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No Highway
1951- Rated:
- U
Entertaining airplane disaster hokum starring Stewart as the scientist on the way to investigate the scene of an air crash. He figures out, a little too late perhaps, that his plane's wing might fall
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Stage Fright
1950- Rated:
- PG
A light-hearted mystery from a time when Hitchcock was making some of his best thrillers, with RADA student Jane Wyman caught in a web of murder and deceit
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A Foreign Affair
1948- Rated:
- TBC
Escaped Nazis, loose living, illegal after hours clubs - life in post-war Berlin is anything but straightforward. Human drama starring Marlene Dietrich and written and directed by Billy Wilder.
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Kismet
1944- Rated:
- TBC
Of the four screen versions of Edward Knoblock's play this is the best-looking. In fact, none is especially interesting, as though the blend of fantasy and romance resisted the screen. The setting is
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Manpower
1941- Rated:
- TBC
A conventional love-triangle plot has Robinson and Raft as the two power line workmen fighting for Dietrich, the daughter of another. While the plot is not much to write home about, its ingenious set
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The Flame Of New Orleans
1941- Rated:
- TBC
A duplicitous socialite dupes a rich banker into marrying her but her past indiscretions come back to haunt her. Romantic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich and Bruce Cabot, and directed by René Clair
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Seven Sinners
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Marlene Dietrich is the sultry singer at an Indonesian club and John Wayne the navyman who falls for her dangerous charms in this 1940 romantic adventure
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Destry Rides Again
1939- Rated:
- PG
An "aw shucks" sheriff sets about cleaning up a no good town. Comedy western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, and directed by George Marshall
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Angel
1937- Rated:
- 12
Frustrated wife Marlene Dietrich takes a solo holiday and picks up more than a tan in this 1937 romantic comedy
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Desire
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Marlene Dietrich's thief tricks Gary Cooper's innocent mechanic into carrying a stolen string of pearls in this smart romantic comedy from 1936
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The Devil Is A Woman
1935- Rated:
- U
Everyone wants her, but no one can have her. Marlene Dietrich is the subject of an older soldier's obsession in this romantic drama set amid the Spanish Civil War
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Devils of London, The
1935- Rated:
- 18
A small triumph from Von Sternberg, with Dietrich in bewitching form as the seemingly unattainable but hugely desirable woman whose aloofness makes her all the more attractive to the string of men wh
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The Scarlet Empress
1934- Rated:
- TBC
The bizarre life of Russian monarch Catherine The Great. Historical drama starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternburg
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The Song of Songs
1933- Rated:
- TBC
Sex, obsession and betrayal and pre-war Berlin: Marlene Dietrich is the country girl who finds love but loses her innocence in this 1933 drama
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Shanghai Express
1932- Rated:
- TBC
Marlene Dietrich's call girl Shanghai Lil is caught up in a web of intrigue in this exotic, train-set adventure
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Blonde Venus
1932- Rated:
- A
Marlene Dietrich is the wife-turned-dancer-turned-prostitute-turned-kidnapper in this 1932 drama, co-starring Cary Grant
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Dishonored
1931- Rated:
- TBC
Seductive super-spy Marlene Dietrich is on the tail of the Russians, but an Eastern rival agent has stolen her heart in this 1931 drama directed by Josef von Sternberg
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Morocco
1930- Rated:
- TBC
Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper star in this 1930 Foreign Legion romantic drama directed by Josef von Sternberg
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