Marlene Dietrich's biography

Marie Magdalene Dietrich is 91 years old film actor born at Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany. Marlene was born on Friday 27th of December 1901. She is often nicknamed as Marlene Dietrichová, Maria Magdalene Sieber, Lili Marlene. According to year of birth 1901 Marlene belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 27th of December means she is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.

She is native german speaker. Marlene is white german. She is atheist. Marlene´s primary profession is to be film actor. You can know Marlene also as singer, autobiographer, entertainer, violinist, stage actor, actor, musician. She is recently known as television actor.

Marlene Dietrich's dad

Marlene Dietrich's father's name is Louis Erich Otto Dietrich.

Marlene Dietrich's mom

Marlene Dietrich's mother's name is Wilhelmina Elisabeth Joséphine Felsing.

Marlene Dietrich's family

Marlene has 1 daughter.

Marlene Dietrich's daughter: Maria Riva

Marlene Dietrich's daughter's name is Maria Riva. She is known as stage actor. Her daughter was born on Saturday 13th of December 1924 in Berlin.

Marlene Dietrich's schools

We found 3 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Goethe Gymnasium, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Detailed informations about her schools

She studied high school - Auguste-Viktoria girls school from 1907 to 1917.

Marlene studied university - Victoria-Luise-Schule (today Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin-Wilmersdorf) in 1918.

Marlene Dietrich's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. Marlene is famous thanks to The Blue Angel (1930). Maybe you are curious what instrument does she play ? She plays violin.

Is Marlene Dietrich gay ?

Marlene is known to be bisexual.

How did Marlene Dietrich die

She died on on Wednesday 6th of May 1992 when he was 91 years old. Marlene Dietrichs death was caused by kidney failure. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Marlene Dietrich's Awards

Won a Special Tony Award in 1968.

Marlene Dietrich's Nominations

Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Shanghai Express (1932), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), with Around the World in 80 Days the only winner.

What else you don't know about Marlene Dietrich ?

Her middle name is Magdalene.

What Marlene Dietrich has done for a first time

First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.
NoÃ«l Coward and Dietrich became, and remained, close friends since their first conversation - by transatlantic telephone - in 1935.

Marlene Dietrich's quotes

[on The Blue Angel (1930), German-language version of The Blue Angel (1930)] I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here [at my groin]. I was so young and dumb.
I am not a myth.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
[in 1964] I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
To be completely a woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
I am at heart, a gentleman
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.
I'm not an actress -- I'm a personality.
Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman!
[on Loretta Young] Every time she "sins", she builds a church. That's why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood.
Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
There is a lack of dignity to film stardom.
I never ever took my career seriously.
I was an actress. I made films. Finish.
Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
[on Anna Magnani] A force of nature.
[on Hildegard Knef] She's Mother Courage.
The legs aren't so beautiful. I just know what to do with them.
[on Cary Grant] The champion.
[In 1972, about Liza Minnelli] I'm annoyed when people keep comparing her to her mother [Judy Garland]. She's nothing to do with her mother. She's a completely different woman. The film Cabaret (1972) is a great hit for her and that's all one wants.
[on Orson Welles] You should cross yourself when you say his name.
The diaphragm is the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup.
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
]on Rock Hudson] He was one of the gentlest, kindest men in Hollywood--and all those journalists should burn in Hell for the bile they printed about him when he died.
[on reading] I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.
[on Orson Welles] When I talk with him, I feel like a tree that has been watered.
[on her preference for trousers] They are so comfortable. It takes too much time to be a well-dressed woman. I have watched others. Bags, shoes, hats. They must think of them all the time. I cannot waste that time.
Ernest Hemingway is the most positive life force I have ever encountered. I hate anything negative, and I hate waste. In Hemingway, nothing is wasted.
[after returning to West Germany in 1960] The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
[during the war] [Adolf Hitler] is an idiot.
Magazines - the biggest myth creators of all! You must never, ever read American magazines. And if you're sitting in a waiting room and can't help it - don't believe a word of any of them.
[1969] I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that.
I am a unique performer and my audience realize this. I mean, who else is there doing what I am doing today?
[1963, when asked why, at age 61, she continued to act] For the money. What else for?
[1969, on attitude] I do think it's rather stupid to be nonchalant. I think one should be full of enthusiasm for everything that happens if one considers it to be worthy of enthusiasm.
You can be good in a play that is bad and the whole thing flops. It is just not worth the effort or the heartbreak. I am not a brave or courageous woman. I prefer to do what I know is safe.
[1969] I think if you have any sort of intelligence you can't succumb to adoration because people adore so many things. They also adore things that you think quite worthless so you can't take it too seriously.
If I dressed for myself, I wouldn't bother at all. Clothes bore me. I'd wear jeans. I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Marlene Dietrich's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Marlene Dietrich looks. We will focus on her height, body shape, eye color and hair color. Marlene is tall as 5' 5¾" (167 cm). Body build is slim. Her eyes are tinted blue. Her hair is shade of blonde.

Marlene Dietrich