‘Wenn die beste Freundin’ (When My Best Girlfriend) - Marlene Dietrich and Margo Lion. The song was a big hit and became an anthem for German lesbians in the late 20′s and early 30′s. — Cabaret Berlin

Marlene Dietrich’s screentest for The Blue Angel

Marlene Dietrich, 1937

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In 1957, Richard Avedon portrayed Marilyn Monroe as various different celebrities. Here, she’s dressed as Marlene Dietrich as she appeared in The Blue Angel.

Emil Jannings made over 70 films during his illustrious career, including The Blue Angel (1930) and It Only Happened Once (1958). He stopped making films in Hollywood with the advent of sound because of his very thick accent, and returned to Germany, where he became a Nazi supporter and made films that supported this ideology.

Marlene Dietrich’s last performance, with David Bowie. From Just a Gigolo (1979). Dir. David Hemmings.

Marlene Dietrich

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Actresses Leni Riefenstahl, Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich at Pierre Ball. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Berlin, Germany, 1928.

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Marlene Dietrich

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Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl. Berlin, 1928.

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Marlene Dietrich.

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Marlene Dietrich’s passport

Marlene Dietrich, I am the Naughty Lola (1930)