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Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 -- 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer, and is considered one of the true legends of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.

Born in Schöneberg, UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}, she started out in vaudeville and theater, then moved to silent films. The transition to sound coincided with her move to Hollywood in 1930; she became a U.S. citizen in 1939. An anti-UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}, Dietrich declined to return to her birth country and performed for the American troops on the front lines of the European theater of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She also played a major part in helping many refugee artists from UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} (Jewish and otherwise) who wanted to emigrate to Hollywood.

As an actress, she is known for her sultry, somewhat stoic style of acting. She also famously crossdressed in many of her roles, usually cabaret scenes. She's most famous for her many collaborations with director Creator/JosefVonSternberg.

Dietrich was very secretive of her private life, although she was openly bisexual. [[ReallyGetsAround Her list of conquests is truly staggering]][[note]]despite having been married once and for about 50 years[[/note]], although it should be taken with a grain of salt, especially because a lot of those claims come from her rather jaded daughter, actress Maria Riva, who also published poetry written by her. However (and somewhat alarmingly), some bits have been confirmed by the FBI archives. The infamous founder of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, ever the paranoid type, had feared there could be a possible Nazi spy operating in the heart of Hollywood. Dietrich's German background made her an extremely conspicuous target to Hoover despite her anti-Nazi stances, and between 1942 and 1944 he had agents shadowing her and monitoring her every move.
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!!Marlene Dietrich on TV Tropes:

* ''Film/TheBlueAngel'' (1930)
* ''Film/{{Morocco}}'' (1930)
* ''Film/BlondeVenus'' (1932)
* ''Film/ShanghaiExpress'' (1932)
* ''Film/TheScarletEmpress'' (1934)
* ''Film/{{Desire|1936}}'' (1936)
* ''Film/KnightWithoutArmour'' (1937)
* ''Film/DestryRidesAgain'' (1939)
* ''Film/{{The Spoilers|1942}}'' (1942)
* ''Film/{{Kismet|1944}}'' (1944)
* ''Film/AForeignAffair'' (1948)
* ''Film/{{Stage Fright|1950}}'' (1950)
* ''Film/RanchoNotorious'' (1952)
* ''Film/{{Around the World in Eighty Days|1956}}'' (1956) (cameo)
* ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution'' (1957)
* ''Film/TouchOfEvil'' (1958)
* ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' (1961)

!!Marlene Dietrich's works provide examples of the following tropes:
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: An early and iconic example for cinema.
* FemmeFatale: Marlene along with Louise Brooks was the TropeCodifier for this.
* GlamorousWartimeSinger: She became one during World War II, touring a lot for the Allies in Western Europe from late 1944 to spring 1945.
* GoodBadGirl: Practically all of her roles.
* LargeHam: She often played roles of this caliber in her later life. She's really having fun in ''Film/StageFright1950''.
* MisattributedSong: [[invoked]] The song "Lili Marlene" is often misattributed as dedicated to her, the similarity of her name and the fact that she did reprise it with great success don't help, and she is often believed to be the first who sang it. The song was actually written in 1915 during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI by a conscripted German school teacher who combined the nickname of his friend's girlfriend, Lili, with the name of another friend, Marlene, who was a nurse. The song was first performed by Lale Andersen in 1938 and became a smash hit in 1941 once Radio Belgrade started broadcasting it for the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons troops]] of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, and that success echoed even among the Allied soldiers who listened to German radio broadcasts, hence Dietrich's reprise to cash in on its success in 1943.
* MsFanservice: She was quite good-looking.
* PrettyInMink: Whether on stage or in a film, if she wore furs, she would make sure to look her best, especially all the [[PimpedOutDress fur-trimmed dresses]] in ''The Scarlet Empress''.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: One of the most iconic glamorized smokers, and provides the page image.
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-->''Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind. Wo sind sie geblieben?''
-->''Where have all the flowers gone?''
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