Allied Arts had booked Marlene Dietrich into McCormick Place Dec. 8 and 9.

Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo was considered very erotic.

Destry Rides Again ( AKA The Man from Montana ) ( 1939 ) is a western starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart.

Kent and " Frenchy " ( Marlene Dietrich ), his girlfriend and the dance hall queen, now have a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers.

* Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy, the saloon singer

Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy performs the songs " See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have " and " You've Got That Look ", written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollander, which have become classics.

The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

Marlene Dietrich.

* 1901 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer ( d. 1992 )

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

The " original " femme fatale, Marlene Dietrich, in a publicity shot for Josef von Sternberg's melodrama Morocco ( 1930 film ) | Morocco ( 1930 )

The signal film in this vein was Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder ; setting the mold was Barbara Stanwyck's unforgettable femme fatale, Phyllis Dietrichson — an apparent nod to Marlene Dietrich, who had built her extraordinary career playing such characters for Sternberg.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf and Raymond Radiguet.

In 1930, she lost the lead role in the Josef von Sternberg-directed The Blue Angel to her neighbour, Marlene Dietrich.

In Morocco ( 1930 ) Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman on the lips, and Katharine Hepburn plays a man in Christopher Strong in 1933 and again in Sylvia Scarlett ( 1936 ).

Marlene Dietrich sang songs successfully in her films, and Rodgers and Hart wrote a few well-received films, but even their popularity waned by 1932.

* Marlene Dietrich played the saw on the Berlin stage and later used it to entertain troops during World War II.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

He recounted seeing Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West, who he would learn made a regular appearance every Friday night, bodyguard in tow.

These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as The Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman ; the persistent rumour that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando ; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress's hair.

The Blue Angel ( 1930 ), directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought Marlene Dietrich international fame.

* 1934 – Marlene Hagge, American professional golfer

* Marlene Dietrich – actress

* December 27 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress ( died 1992 )

* May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress ( b. 1901 )

* Marlene Dietrich – Tanya

From 12 – 29 October, Brel returned to the Olympia Theatre in Paris with star billing, after Marlene Dietrich cancelled at the last minute.

Marlene Dietrich (; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992 ) was a German-American actress and singer.

* 1985 – Nominated – Academy Award for Documentary Feature – Marlene

Marlene and Boom Boom Geoffrion's son, Dan, ( born January 24, 1958 ) played five seasons of professional hockey, which included stops with the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association in 1978 – 79, Canadiens in 1979 – 80 ( with his father as coach ), and Winnipeg Jets in 1980 – 81.

* Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Marlene Bauer, LPGA golf

* Actress Sue Holderness – Played Marlene in the long running UK TV sit-com Only Fools and Horses and in The Green Green Grass.

* November 10 – Marlene Jennings, politician

* Marlene Streit ( née Stewart ) – Women's Am-1956 ; Sr Women's Am-1985, 1994, 2003

However, she failed to defend her semifinal points from the 2003 French Open, losing to Marlene Weingärtner in the third round 6 – 3, 6 – 2.

Buried here are Ferruccio Busoni ( 1866 – 1924 ), Marlene Dietrich ( 1901 – 1992 ) and Helmut Newton ( 1920 – 2004 ).

Her last appearance in a Grand Slam Tournament was in Wimbledon 2002, where she lost on the first round to Marlene Weingartner 4 – 6, 6 – 3, 6 – 2.