Marlene Dietrich’s screentest for 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.

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.