Read facts you never knew about Marlene Dietrich: Marlene used to call her daughter ‘the child’ and shaved years off her age for publicity purposes, causing her daughter much confusion as to what her actual age was. She was the first German actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. Marlene and Joseph von Sternberg …
Birth: 27 December 1901 Berlin, Germany. Death: 6 May 1992 Paris, France Childhood Marlene Dietrich was born as Maria Magdalene Dietrich on 27 December 1901 in Berlin, Germany. She was the second child to Josephine, a housewife, and Louis, a police lieutenant. Josephine ran the household with an iron fist, but Louis was rarely home. He …
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. – Marlene Dietrich