Marlene Dietrich is a world-famous singer and actress. Its small homeland is the Berlin district of Schöneberg, where on December 27, 1901 she was born in the family of Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, a police officer, and Johanna Felsing.
In Berlin, Marlene attended secondary school until 1918. At the same time she studied violin at the German professor Dessau. From 1919 to1921 he attended music classes, studied with Professor Robert Raitz in the city of Weimar. Then she entered the school of actors, organized by Max Reinhardt in Berlin. Since 1922, she has played small roles in several Berlin theaters. The same year was also marked by the appearance of her on the screen in the film entitled "Younger brother of Napoleon."
1924 - the marriage of Marlene Dietrich. With her first husband, Rudolph Zieber, she lived for 5 years, although in an official marriage they remained until Rudolph's death in 1976.
December 1924 was marked by the birth of the daughter of Mary.
Work in the cinema and the theater Marlen resumed from 1925, and in 1928 she first recorded the songs on a plate with a revue ensemble called "It's soaring in the air." A year later, Marlene was seen by Joseph von Sternberg in the revue "Two ties", and then invited to star in the film "Blue Angel" in the role of Lola Lola. Already in 1930 Dietrich signed a working contract with the firm Paramount and on the day of the premiere of the Blue Angel, on April 1, 1930, she left Germany.
Marlene Dietrich has gained worldwide fame thanks to six films released in Hollywood. And in 1939 she became a US citizen.
Later in the biography of Dietrich, there is only success. She was practically the highest paid actress of that time. Its popularity has not faded. She starred in the popular picture "Shanghai Express" and in the famous film "Venus Blonde", where one of the roles played by Cary Grant. Marlene Dietrich created on the screen a very deep and precise image of a woman without any special moral principles, but she always wanted to try other roles.
Since March 1943, for 3 years she gave concerts in the troops. And at the end of the war, her career experienced a second rise. Marlene played in many productions in famous theaters, including Broadway.
Dietrich appeared in 1-2 movies every year.
1947 - the return of Marlene Dietrich to America. Filming in the movies are becoming less and less, she plays in episodic roles. However, it was during this period of her work that she discovered the dramatic talent. So in the 1957 film "Prosecution witness" Marlene brilliantly succeeded the role of a woman who saved her husband from prison. The drama was also in the fact that the heroine was treacherously deceived by her husband.
In another film, the Nuremberg Trials (1961), she talentedly played the widow of a certain fascist general who could not reconcile herself to the defeat of the Reichstag. Dietrich brilliantly transmitted the fanatical fanaticism of the ideology of the Nazis through the image of her heroine. Her role was complicated by the well hidden complex character and highly refined manners of the heroine.
Later, Marlene Dietrich became less and less in the movies, but remained on the stage. During this period, she began actively to conduct radio programs and headings in glamorous magazines.
1953 - is considered the beginning of her successful career as an entertainer and singer who started in Las Vegas. On the screens, Marlene appeared rarely.
In 1960, Dietrich visited Germany with tours. And in 1963 her concerts were successfully given in Leningrad and Moscow.
1979 - a turning point for Marlene, when the career was threatened because of an accident. The actress received a hip fracture at the time of the performance on the stage.
Then followed 12 years of life, bedridden. Dietrich could not walk, and she maintained communication with the outside world only with the help of a telephone. All these years Marlene spent in Paris, in her mansion.
May 6, 1992, Marlene Dietrich died in her apartment in Paris. The official version of her death is a violation of the kidney and heart. However, according to unofficial information, Dietrich took a large dose of sleeping pills to avoid the painful consequences of cerebral hemorrhage - the version that happened on the eve, on May 4.
On July 24, 2008, in the Schöneberg district, on the house where Marlene Dietrich was born, a commemorative plaque was installed in her honor.