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 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.

Composed of Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps, the group sang background vocals on numerous Motown recordings, including songs by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin, Edwin Starr, The Supremes, The Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, among others.

Arlen attended La Escuela Normal de Señoritas ( Young Women's Normal School ), located in Jinotepe, and she later attended UNAN, where she often sang with Marlene Álvarez, a member of a music group named Pancasán.

Marlene Dietrich recorded it and sang it on stage.

Besides contemporary rock bands which became the soundtrack of the social changes beginning in the Sixties, Rio Reiser was also influenced by other music styles including orchestral film soundtracks, German " folk songs " and traditional music and German singers such as Marlene Dietrich.

Marlene Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including Lili Marleen.

As one of the leaders of The Citizens Band she has performed a variety of songs including covers of The Velvet Underground, Kurt Weill, Elvis Presley, Mimi and Richard Fariña, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Marlene Dietrich.

Some examples of torch songs are " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man " ( 1927 ), " Lili Marlene " ( 1938 ), " One for My Baby " ( 1943 ), " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 ), " Ne me quitte pas " ( 1959 ), " By the Time I Get to Phoenix " ( 1965 ), " Losing My Mind " ( 1971 ) and " And I am Telling You " ( 1982 ).

After the " Ark " successfully takes over Second earth from the ignorant High Council, Marlene heads down to earth in search of Yuji.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

' I never saw anything to substantiate that in all the time I was with him .” Kaye ’ s final girlfriend, Marlene Sorosky, reported that he told her, " I've never had a homosexual experience in my life.

Marlene Dietrich's role was a surprise to the producers and they raised her fee so they could advertise her involvement.

The model's exploitation of Petra mirrors Petra's extraordinary psychological abuse of her silent assistant, Marlene.

Interesting piece of trivia: Cyndi Lauper mouthed Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer's lines from the 1936 film The Garden of Allah in her 1984 video for " Time After Time.

Riley and his girlfriend Marlene Olive murdered her adoptive parents, James and Naomi Olive, in Terra Linda and disposed of the bodies by burning them in a firepit in nearby China Camp State Park.

Around the age of 11, she contracted her two first names to form the name " Marlene ".

To these necessary elements ( her own technical competence and her audience's sentimentality ) Marlene Dietrich adds a third — the mysterious force of her belief in her own magic.

Marlene Dietrich discusses her film and cabaret career in an interview recorded in Paris, 1959.

During her performances at Berlin's Titania Palast theatre, protesters chanted, " Marlene Go Home!

In 1982, Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, Marlene ( 1984 ), but refused to be filmed.

After Dietrich's death, Riva published a frank biography of her mother, titled Marlene Dietrich ( 1990 ).

Vélez once said: " If I had the opportunity to do so, I would have drawn her eyes Marlene Dietrich out ".

The U. S. Government awarded Marlene Dietrich the Medal of Freedom for her war work.

A 2007 article in the American magazine Vanity Fair called Gábor " a game performer with a wholesome, even cheerful sensuality that can undercut the Continental sophistication that was supposedly her calling card — she can come across like Sally Field doing a party impression of Marlene Dietrich.

The book's author wanted his girlfriend, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the lead, but instead Marlene Dietrich was given her first sound role as the " actress " Lola Lola ( named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel ).