Marlene Dietrich Net Worth

Marlene Dietrich's Quotes

• [on The Blue Angel (1930), German-language version of The Blue Angel (1930)] I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here [at my groin]. I was so young and dumb.
• I am not a myth.
• I never enjoyed working in a film.
• [in 1964] I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
• In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

Interesting Facts about Marlene Dietrich

1. Received the U.S. War Department's 'Medal of Freedom', in 1947, for entertaining American troops in WWII and her strong stand against Naziism.
2. Was made a Chevaliere of the Legion by France.
3. Born at 9:15pm-CET
4. Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 million German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.
5. Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.
6. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#60). [1995]
7. Gave birth to her only child at age 22, a daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber (aka Maria Riva) on December 13, 1924. Child's father was her husband, Rudolf Sieber.
8. Marlene's father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI.
9. Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.
10. She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.
11. Never worked without a mirror on the set so she could constantly check her makeup and hair.
12. Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.
13. In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.
14. She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.
15. She prided herself on the fact that she had slept with three men of the Kennedy clan - Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and John F. Kennedy.
16. Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.
17. Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.
18. Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.
19. Ten years after her death, Berlin - the city of Dietrich's birth which she shunned for most of her life - declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city's legislature bestowed honor on her as "an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany." The declaration hoped this "would symbolize the city of Berlin's reconciliation with her."
20. Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.