TPARA LPAR@ ` $TEXT ` Dietrich, Marlene1901? ╨1992actor and singerBorn on December 27, probably in 1901 (she claimed 1904), in Berlin, Germany, Maria Magdalene, as she was named, was the daughter of Ludwig Dietrich, a Royal Prussian police officer, and Josephine Felsing, the daughter of a jeweler. Her father died when she was still very young, and her mother remarried Colonel Baron von Losch, who was killed fighting in World War I. She studied at a private school and learned both English and French by the time she was twelve years old. As a teenager, she studied to be a concert violinist, but a wrist injury forced her to abandon her plans for a musical career.She turned to the arts of the stage and enrolled in Max Reinhardt╒s Deutsche Theaterschule, a school of dramatic arts, and changed her name to Marlene because her family disapproved of her decision to become an actress. Later, she joined Reinhardt╒s theater company. In 1923 she attracted the attention of Rudolf Sieber, a casting director at UFA film studios; he began casting her in small film roles. They married the following year and, after the birth of their daughter, Maria, she returned to theater and film. They were separated in 1929.In the same year director Josef von Sternberg saw Dietrich in a show while he was in Germany and cast her as the haughty and amoral female lead in The Blue Angel, 1930, Germany╒s first talking film. The film╒s success catapulted Dietrich into stardom. Von Sternberg brought Dietrich to the U.S. and signed her with Paramount Pictures. She developed her femme fatale film persona with von Sternberg in Morocco, 1930, Dishonored, 1931, Shanghai Express, 1932, Blond Venus, 1932, The Scarlet Empress, 1934, and The Devil is a Woman, 1935. Later she worked for such directors as Lang, Lubitsch, Wilder and Hitchcock. Her visibility as a star made her a trend-setter╤she wore mannish clothes and launched an entire fashion craze of American women wearing pants and other men╒s apparel.By World War II, Dietrich refused to work in Germany despite personal appeals made by Adolph Hitler, and her films were temporarily banned there. She became a U.S. citizen in 1937 and worked during the war entertaining the troops by singing numbers like ╥Falling in Love Again.╙ In the 1950s, while still making movies, Dietrich began a career as an international cabaret star, performing in Las Vegas and in London. She took her cabaret act to Russia in 1964 and performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1965. She made her Broadway debut in 1967. Some of her later films include: Witness for the Prosecution, 1958, The Monte Carlo Story, 1958, Touch of Evil, 1958, and Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. She toured as a concert and cabaret singer until 1975; Marlene, her memoirs, were published in 1989. Dietrich died in Paris on May 6, 1992. styl ` & ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ 0 !I Ä 5¬ Å !I ╙ !I Θ !I ┤ 5¬ ╡ !I H !I V !I I !I P !I X !I b !I j !I z !I é !I ì !I ò !I ¿ !I ┤ !I ╚ !I ╟ 5¬ ╚ !I ≡ 5¬ ± !I
