Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich, original name Maria Magdalena von Losch (1901-92). German film actress and singer, who lived in the US from 1930. After becoming famous in the role of a dance-hall entertainer in the film The Blue Angel (1930), she went to Hollywood and made a number of films that established her glamorous image. These include Blonde Venus (1932), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). During World War II she made hundreds of personal appearances before Allied troops, usually singing ‘Lili Marlene’, the song especially associated with her. In the 1950s and 1960s she remained one of the best-known cabaret entertainers in the world.
