Marlene Dietrich

1901–1992 · German and American actress and singer

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin, she performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in many Hollywood films, including six roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil Is a Woman (1935). Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.

Marlene Dietrich, in order

1. 1923 The Little Napoleon: acted · directed by Georg Jacoby
2. 1923 Tragedy of Love: acted · directed by Joe May
3. 1924 The Monk from Santarem: acted · directed by Lothar Mendes
4. 1925 Dancing Mad: acted · directed by Alexander Korda
5. 1925 Joyless Street: acted · directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
6. 1926 Madame Wants No Children: acted · directed by Alexander Korda and Karl Hartl
7. 1926 Manon Lescaut: acted · directed by Arthur Robison
8. 1927 A Modern Dubarry: acted · directed by Alexander Korda
9. 1927 Café Elektric: acted · directed by Gustav Ucicky and Karl Hartl
10. 1927 Heads Up, Charley: acted · directed by Willi Wolff
11. 1927 His Greatest Bluff: acted · directed by Harry Piel and Henrik Galeen
12. 1927 The Imaginary Baron: acted · directed by Willi Wolff
13. 1928 Princess Olala: acted · directed by Robert Land
14. 1929 I Kiss Your Hand, Madame: acted · directed by Robert Land
15. 1929 The Ship of Lost Souls: acted · directed by Maurice Tourneur
16. 1929 The Woman One Longs For: acted · directed by Curtis Bernhardt
17. 1930 Morocco: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
18. 1930 The Blue Angel: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
19. 1931 Dishonored: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
20. 1932 Blonde Venus: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
21. 1932 Shanghai Express: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
22. 1933 The Film Parade: acted · directed by J. Stuart Blackton
23. 1933 The Song of Songs: acted · directed by Rouben Mamoulian
24. 1934 The Scarlet Empress: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
25. 1935 The Devil Is a Woman: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
26. 1935 The Fashion Side of Hollywood (short film): acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
27. 1936 Desire: acted · directed by Frank Borzage
28. 1936 The Garden of Allah: acted · directed by Richard Boleslawski
29. 1937 Angel: acted · directed by Ernst Lubitsch
30. 1937 Knight Without Armour: acted · directed by Jacques Feyder
31. 1939 Destry Rides Again: acted · directed by George Marshall
32. 1940 Seven Sinners: acted · directed by Phil Karlson and Tay Garnett · critics 80%, audiences 43% · streaming on Tubi
33. 1941 Manpower: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh
34. 1941 The Flame of New Orleans: acted · directed by René Clair
35. 1942 Pittsburgh: acted · directed by Lewis Seiler
36. 1942 The Lady is Willing: acted · directed by Mitchell Leisen
37. 1942 The Spoilers: acted · directed by Ray Enright
38. 1943 Show Business at War: acted · directed by Louis de Rochemont
39. 1944 Follow the Boys: acted · directed by A. Edward Sutherland and John Rawlins
40. 1944 Kismet: acted · directed by William Dieterle
41. 1946 Martin Roumagnac: acted · directed by Georges Lacombe
42. 1947 Golden Earrings: acted · directed by Mitchell Leisen
43. 1948 A Foreign Affair: acted · directed by Billy Wilder · critics 100%, audiences 78%
44. 1950 Jigsaw: acted · directed by Fletcher Markle
45. 1950 Stage Fright: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 91%, audiences 68% · streaming on TCM
46. 1951 No Highway in the Sky: acted · directed by Henry Koster
47. 1952 Rancho Notorious: acted · directed by Fritz Lang
48. 1956 Around the World in 80 Days: acted · directed by John Farrow and Michael Anderson · critics 72%, audiences 57% · streaming on Kanopy, Tubi
49. 1956 The Monte Carlo Story: acted · directed by Sam Taylor and Samuel A. Taylor
50. 1957 Witness for the Prosecution: acted · directed by Billy Wilder · critics 100%, audiences 95% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
51. 1958 Touch of Evil: acted · directed by Orson Welles · critics 96%, audiences 92% · streaming on Prime Video, Plex, Tubi
52. 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg: acted · directed by Stanley Kramer
53. 1962 Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler: acted · directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen
54. 1964 Paris When It Sizzles: acted · directed by Richard Quine
55. 1965 The Love Goddesses: acted · directed by Saul J. Turell · audiences 69% · streaming on Criterion Channel
56. 1965 Triumph Over Violence: acted · directed by Mikhail Romm
57. 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: acted · directed by Philippe Mora · audiences 57% · streaming on Fawesome
58. 1978 Just a Gigolo: acted · directed by Charlotte Läuffer-Roll and David Hemmings
59. 1984 Marlene: acted · directed by Maximilian Schell
60. 1993 The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl: acted · directed by Ray Müller
61. 1995 The Celluloid Closet: acted · directed by Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein · critics 96%, audiences 89% · streaming on Roku Channel
62. 2002 Prisoner of Paradise: acted · directed by Malcolm Clarke
63. 2005 Filmmakers in Action: acted · directed by Carlos Benpar
64. 2014 From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses: acted · directed by Rüdiger Suchsland · audiences 82%
65. 2020 Beautiful Like a Poem (short film): acted · directed by Mohammad Mohammadian
66. An Evening with Marlene Dietrich: acted