Marlene Dietrich

These are amusing black and white home movies shot aboard the SS Bremen in 1930 courtesy of shipgeek.com. The SS “Bremen” of 1929 was one of a pair of ocean liners built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) for the transatlantic passenger service. The “Bremen” was notable for her low streamlined profile, and modern approach to her design. Her sister ship was the SS|Europa|1930|2, later renamed “Liberté”. The German pair sparked the building of the large (and very expensive... Read Full Story

Madonna’s Many Looks Stolen From Others June 9. 2008 Mad-onna As many of you know, I think Madonna is a terrible human being. She’s stolen vast amounts of copyrighted music, film, clothing and photos from my preexisting Copyrighted Catalog containing 10,000 songs, 300 movie scripts and short stories, 15 book manuscripts, 200 music video treatments, 500 photographs, 150 photo treatments, a perfume line and clothing line. Hence this page on my site illustrating she is a sick, crazy... Read Full Story

Beware of blondes Marlene Dietrich – Lola Lola We will never know how Western civilization would differ from what it is today had Immanuel Kant met a woman .   But, thanks to The Blue Engel , we can have an idea as to how the life of Immanuel Kant would have changed had he met a woman. The Blue Engel tells the story of Professor Immanuel Rath ( Emil Jannings ; Rath is an obvious reference to Kant, but it is also used to form the word unrath , which means filth), a high school... Read Full Story

Rock band Duran Duran, the group behind the hits “Come Undone,” “Reflex” and “Hungry Like The Wolf,” slammed the music industry’s number one copyright infringer Madonna, stating she copied them. Dudes, join the line, you are a few of many….and I do mean many, she’s stolen from. It’s so disgraceful what that fraud has done. Duran Duran Accuse Madonna Of Copying Their Ideas “It wouldn’t be the first time Madonna’s copied us. She’s been doing it for years,” he told the Daily Star... Read Full Story

Inspirational Quotes It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.             — Marlene Dietrich The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.             — Robert Fulghum , It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness... Read Full Story

(Norbert Schultze, composer of Lili Marlene) I am sure most people have these days that they can hardly bear to even read the headlines of all the news stories that bombard us, day after day after day. This Sunday, I was having one of those ‘Please, why don’t you just go away?’ arguments with the clamouring world of online news, when I came upon the following story. It’s about one of my favourite songs – and it also mentions one of my most beloved dead performers, Marlene Dietrich... Read Full Story

Adlon Hotel History: Marlene Dietrich, Berlin, 1929.  At the annual Presseball in the famous Hotel Adlon, Dietrich wore tails and pants, which was unheard of at that time. She had to stand very still because the exposure was always between half a second and a second. If someone moved I had to take the picture over again. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE ADLON HOTEL’S WEBSITE History of the Hotel Adlon Kempinski On October 24, 1907 the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin reported: “Yesterday, His... Read Full Story

"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman." Full Name: Marie Magdalene Dietrich DOB/DOD: 12-27-1901 Schöneberg, a district of Berlin, Germany.(We were born the same day!!) 05-06-1992 passed away in her sleep in her Paris Apt. She is Buried in Friedhof III,Berlin-Friedenau, Germany Claim to fame: a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer. She is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in... Read Full Story

This Oscar-nominated documentary originally made for German television but released cinematically must be one of the strangest ever made with the theoretical cooperation of a living subject. Marlene Dietrich was 82 years old when she agreed to the project by actor-director Maximilian Schell, a co-star from 1961's "Judgment at Nuremburg". However she apparently stipulated that the interview and retrospective which was meant to be filmed at her Paris apartment could neither picture her nor her... Read Full Story

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=FDNokbkViagJ&imgurl=entertainment.time sonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00393/Dietrich385_393101a.jpg width=80 height=38 alt="" border=1> Times Online <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Marlene Dietrich's music hall, the Friedrichstadtpalast, faces ... Times Online, UK - 30 minutes ago The Friedrichstadtpalast, the music hall at the heart of the Roaring Twenties, has appealed to Klaus Wowereit, the Mayor of Berlin, to provide €3.5... Read Full Story