Marlene Dietrich was a sought-after star of the ‘30s and ’40s. (Eugene Robert Richee/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Hollywood took note, and a contract with Paramount Pictures followed.

Marlene Dietrich is celebrated as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous movie stars, but the Berlin-born actress preferred being on the front lines with troops fighting during World War II.

Actress Marlene Dietrich in 1971. Afterwards, she helped people escape Germany, sold war bonds and performed for the Allied troops.

Instead, “ Marlene Dietrich ‘s ABCs” is a rollicking collection of aphorisms, one-liners, and haughtiness that ranges from “Sex: In America an obsession.

Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...

Marlene Dietrich was born in Germany in 1901. By the time she was a young woman in her twenties, she had earned renown in Berlin for her stage shows. All throughout the ’20s, Dietrich acted on ...

A ruby-and-diamond bracelet that legendary star Marlene Dietrich commissioned from Van Cleef & Arpels in 1937 and wore to the Academy Awards in 1951 is headed to the auction block. It will be ...

“Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image,” on view at the National Portrait Gallery, is a collection of dozens of rare and familiar photos of the movie star.

In the novel Marlene (William Morrow, 403 pp., *** out of four stars), author C. W. Gortner (Mademoiselle Chanel) gives Dietrich the fictionalized biography treatment that seems to have become a ...

Entertainment Diane McNaron remembers Marlene Dietrich in Birmingham retrospective Published: Sep. 30, 2012, 2:52 p.m. By Michael Huebner | [email protected] ...

The popular imagination has long cast Marlene Dietrich as the embodiment of Weimar Germany, a somewhat decadent expression of freedom that preceded the jackboots of the Nazis. Watching "The Blue ...