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[to stuffy Professor Immanuel Rath, who is dressed in a clown suit]
Lola Lola: Your boys should see you now.
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[singing]
Lola Lola: Falling in love again, never wanted to. What's a girl to do? I can't help it. What choice do I have? That's the way I'm made. Love is all I know, I can't help it. Men swarm around me like moths 'round a flame. And if their wings are singed, surely I can't be blamed.
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (Marlene Dietrich, December 27, 1901-May 6, 1992), was born in Berlin, Germany, a German-American actor and singer.
Dietrich was the only female star in Hollywood who could stand up against Greta Garbo in the 1920s and 1930s . Although I have never obtained Oscars , its name is well-known in the United States. The English version of " Lili Marleen " she once sang became the favorite song of soldiers from both the United States and Germany during World War II.
In 1999, he was selected as the 9th place in " The greatest actress in a hundred years " by AFI . In 2003, he was rated as the 50th " Greatest German " by a public opinion campaign launched by Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
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Early Experience
Marlene Dietrich is one of the few actresses who made her career in Berlin and also developed successfully in Hollywood. She was born in Berlin in 1901 and was born as Maria Magdalena Dietrich (Maria Magdalena Dietrich).
Born on December 27, 1901 in a small town on the outskirts of Berlin. She is the youngest daughter in the family. His father is a lieutenant of the Royal Police. The father's position allowed Marlene and her sister to spend a comfortable childhood. In 1911, Marlene's father died, leaving her mother to raise her two daughters alone. When her father died at the age of 10, her mother married a Prussian officer.
The death of her father left a long shadow on Marlene. Marlene’s childhood hobby is music. She loves playing the violin and dreams of becoming a professional violinist at BPO . But then her hand was injured, and her childhood dreams were also in vain.
In 1918, he studied violin at the Weimar Conservatory, and continued to study in Berlin in 1921, but was interrupted due to illness. After being selected by the famous theater director Magus Anhalt during a recitation at the German Opera, he got the chance to perform for the first time.
Performing Experience
Marlene Dietrich debuts
In 1923, he performed his first role. In the same year, he married Rudolf Sieber, an assistant producer, and gave birth to his first daughter.
1930 was the beginning of Marlene Dietrich’s career. She played the role of Laura in the film " Der Blaue Engel " (Der blaue Engel) based on the German writer Heinrich Mann 's novel "Professor Garbage. " "I was born for love from head to toe" (Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt) became popular all over the world, and then went to Paramount Pictures with director Josef von Sternberg to shoot six films one after another.
In 1935, Marlene Dietrich ended the cooperation with Steenburg.
Marlene Dietrich's glory days
In 1936, German Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Joseph Goebbels invited her to return to Germany and promised her the freedom to completely modify the script and select partners in addition to providing a high salary, but Marlene Dietrich refused. She stayed in the United States with many directors including Alfred Hitchcock , Lu , Orson Welles ( director of the movie " Citizen Kane ") and Billy Wilder .
After a short trip to Austria in 1937, she embarked on a long journey. She accepted US citizenship two years later , even though her mother was still living in Berlin at the time.
In the mid-thirties, she and Katharine Houghton Hepburn , Greta Garbo , Mae West, and Joan Crawford became " Box office flop " at the same time , because audiences no longer liked their "high art level" movies. In this impasse, the movie " big scam " (The big bluff) new image, save her career. In the play, she changes the image of a goddess that was originally inaccessible, and becomes a bar girl who struggles for fate with a low and hoarse voice and sings profanity. Later Dietrich became more famous for her singing. Although she didn't think it was singing at all, it was more like talking. The most famous of these are " Lili Marleen " (originally a famous song sung by Lale Anderson) and "Where are the flowers" (Sag mir,wo die Blumen sind, ie Where have all the flowers gone).
Joined US citizenship in 1939. Later, she reduced filming and went to the front lines of North Africa and Italy to perform for the soldiers. After the war, he was awarded the "Peace Medal" by the US government and the Legion of Honor from the German government. During World War II , she became one of the most popular entertainers in the African and European and American armies. For this reason, she interrupted her official position and has been actively participating in and funding wartime refugees and exiles. Before the end of the war, she returned to Germany with the American troops that entered Germany first, and looked for her mother and sisters. And her mother died in November 1945.
Marlene Dietrich during World War II
Between 1923 and 1929, Dietrich starred in 18 silent films, but it wasn't until 1929 that she met the Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg that her fate changed completely. Steinberg invited Dietrich to join his film "Der Blaue Engel". Sure enough, this film made Dietrich become an international movie star. In 1930, Dietrich followed Steinberg to Hollywood.
Dietrich's pure German beauty and glamorous temperament fit Adolf Hitler 's "appetite". After taking office in 1933, Adolf Hitler very much hoped that Dietrich would return to China to "repay." In 1936, German Reich Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels met with Dietrich in Paris and offered quite attractive terms, hoping that she would become an iconic figure in the " German Reich " art world.
At that time, German Reich printed various collections of Hollywood movie stars' cigarette paintings, books, etc. The protagonist was Dietrich. Adolf Hitler is also building a film base near Berlin, preparing to build Hollywood in Germany. It is said that Adolf Hitler also proposed to Dietrich, but she repeatedly refused. A year later, when Dietrich was filming the film "Destiny" in the UK, suddenly several special envoys of Adolf Hitler found her and handed her a blank check, stating that as long as she returned to Germany to make her offer, Adolf Hitler promised to promote her as the chief of Germany. Actress, but Dietrich refused.
Dietrich once told a friend that she refused to return to Germany because she did not want to promote "German Reich", otherwise, she would become a sinner of mankind. Out of worries about the rise of the Nazis, Dietrich even told Hollywood lover Douglas Fairbanks an unusually bold plan: to kill Adolf Hitler on the bed.
"I will make him feel that I really love him." Dietrich said. Adolf Hitler has left a deep impression on her and has fallen in love with her deeply. She will discuss with Paul Joseph Goebbels about returning to Germany, and will also offer him a condition: to meet Adolf Hitler alone. Realizing that she would be searched, Dietrich prepared to enter Adolf Hitler's bedroom naked if necessary, and the weapon she used was a poisoned hairpin.
It sounds like the plan of the Hollywood movie plot surprised Fairbanks . He later said: "She is a brave girl . I am sure that she is going to risk her life if she ever had a chance." However, maybe I knew Deed a long time ago. Rei will not be "deadly" to the head of state. After receiving Dietrich's request, Paul Joseph Goebbels appeared very reserved. Although he welcomed her back to Germany, he did not respond to the meeting with Adolf Hitler .
After the start of "World War II", Dietrich immediately expressed allegiance and participated in the United States Armed Forces . She went to the front line and performed condolences for American soldiers. As a result, it became popular among American soldiers and became the most popular condolences during the "World War II" period. Star of the show. The song " Lily Marlene " sung by her has become a popular song sung in the two camps of the American and German soldiers, and it is also a classic among popular songs. This song almost became the spiritual pillar of the soldiers in the "World War II" . This song is not only an accusation of war, but also a homesickness that cannot be released.
It's not only Adolf Hitler who is attracted by Dietrich . The list of her lovers is like a "celebrity" magazine in the movie world, with a long list.
In 1936, Dietrich was filming in the UK and learned through Fairbanks, who was close to the British royal family , that King Edward VIII planned to abdicate and marry Bessie Wallis Warfield . In Dietrich’s eyes, Bessie Wallis Warfield was an "ordinary flat-chested woman", so she suddenly gave birth to an idea of "saving Britain"—she decided to "plug in" to prove to Edward VIII that "this world is not only Bessie Wallis" A woman in Warfield". However, after some careful preparation, Dietrich failed to see King.
In 1939, after the love affair with Van Punk and James Stewart broke down, Dietrich began to pursue Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr., the then American ambassador to the United Kingdom . That summer, they met while on vacation in the south of France, but there was not much progress between Dietrich and the cautious Joseph, but the 22-year-old John F. Kennedy (Joseph's son) who was present was very impressed by the female star. After Kennedy became the President of the United States, he invited Dietrich to the White House and asked her about her relationship with his father.
During World War II, Dietrich got acquainted with General of the Army Eisenhower and General Patton. From then on, General Patton fell in love with her. There is also the famous writer Ernest Miller Hemingway , the two mainly flirt with letters. In a letter dated June 19, 1950, Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote: "You are really getting more and more beautiful... What kind of work do you want to do in your life? Is everyone heartbroken for you? You always break my heart like this, and I'm so willing."
Since the 1950s, she has almost only developed a singing career and achieved extremely high achievements. At that time, her music director was Burt Bacharach. During a European tour in 1960, she returned to Berlin, Germany. And in of Poland at The Republic , Russia or Israel show is different, here to greet her was not just like her audience, there is another group of people hostile to her and the media, they regard her as a " Traitor ", even on her Bomb intimidation.
In 1961, Dietrich made the last film " Das Urteil von Nürnberg " (Das Urteil von Nürnberg) , a film about legal workers being involved in the illegal Nazi system.
Marlene Dietrich late in life
In the later stage of her fame, her alcoholism became more and more serious. In 1975, she injured her femur during a stage performance in Australia and ended her stage career. Three years later, she starred in the 1979 film "Beautiful Little White Face, Poor Little White Face" (Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo). In this film, her role is completely completed in a wheelchair. This is the last time she has appeared. After filming the film, she chose to leave the public eye completely and spend the rest of her life in an apartment on Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
A few years later, she accepted Maximilian Schell 's request and appeared again in the documentary " Marlene ", but there was only sound but no figure. Schell used old film fragments and pictures to make this work. In this documentary, Schell and Dietrich have been arguing alternately in German and English. The film ended with Dietrich's prediction. The film was later nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. In 1962, her first autobiography "ABC" was published. In 1987, the second autobiography "I am, thank goodness, a Berliner" was released.
In 1992, Marlene Dietrich passed away in Paris. The official cause of death was heart problems and kidney failure. But Norma Pok, her secretary and girlfriend, had different opinions. She believed that the real cause of death was probably that Marlene Dietrich took an overdose of sleeping pills to end her life after her second stroke in two days. Norma Pok frequently visited Dietrich’s residence a few weeks before her death. According to Marlene Dietrich’s wishes during her lifetime, she was buried in a municipal cemetery at Stubenrauchstrasse 43-45 in Berlin. Simple tomb.
Character Evaluation
In the world of film, Marlene Dietrich is an amazing legend, undoubtedly a series of complex contradictions, sexy, full of temptation, her sexy image deeply moved and conquered a generation of male audiences. From "Der Blaue Engel" in La Bayadere to "Morocco" in the lovestruck girl, then " on Shanghai Express " in the Fengchennvlang, in a series of films, Marlene fully demonstrated her breathtaking beauty. As a world-class movie star, Marlene Dietrich's image on the screen and the image in life form a wonderful correspondence. existBehind his appearance, there is actually an emotional heart surging. As a German actress, she faced Adolf Hitler 's admiration during World War II . She resolutely demonstrated integrity, wisdom and courage, which is even more admirable.
She has thin lips, but she is sexy. She has a cold temperament, but attracts attention. No matter what clothes she wears, she can inject unlimited imagination into her clothes. She is Marlene Dietrich, one of the 20th century idols. She is too precocious, thanks to her experience of singing in a nightclub full of indulgence at the age of 19 . The young and beautiful KJRAJ was not satisfied with the success of his singing career and switched to filming. She became one of the greatest idols of the 20th century, a dazzling Hollywood star.
Marlene Dietrich is some distance away from the peerless beauty, but no matter what clothes she wears, she exudes an arrogant temperament of looking at the world coldly. The eyebrows are tall, thin as hairsprings, under fan-like eyelashes, the eyes are blurred and misty, the red lips are pointed and thin, and they are smiling but not smiling. In this way, the clothing is filled with room for imagination. She is one of the icons of the twentieth century-a movie star and a hotel singer, and she is still very appealing at the age of 74.
Marlene Dietrich conquered the public with her neutral temperament. She supported gender equality and often wore men's clothing, which was very controversial at the time. But because of this, she became an idol of the women's movement in the Second World War. Because she is a bisexual, she has also become a representative of homosexual .
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