Marlene Dietrich
Born | December 27, 1901 |
Hometown | Berlin, Germany |
Net worth | $20 million |
Height | 5'5" (1.64m) |
Spouse | Rudolf Sieber (m 1923 - 1976) |
Partner | Erich Maria Remarque , Jean Gabin , John Wayne , Mercedes de Acosta , John F. Kennedy , Yul Brynner |
Children | Maria Riva |
Parents | Wilhelmina Elisabeth Joséphine Felsing , Louis Erich Otto Dietrich |
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Sex, lies and the Third Reich – inside the debauched chaos of the 1930s
- Who was the worst German writer to be married to in the 1930s? Could it be Brecht, who gaslit his wife Helene Weigel while stringing together a daisy chain of girlfriends? Or Hermann Hesse, who went to the registry office “to have a ring put in my nose”, then vanished to a spa while his bride honeymooned alone? No, the worst was surely the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger, who in 1933 joined other exiles in the south of France. “F---ed Marta. Lola in a permanent bad mood,” he wrote on July 30. Lola wa
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Year | Associations | Category | Work | Result |
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1958 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film) | Nominated |
1932 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Morocco (film) | Nominated |
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None of these stars won – so what is the point of the Oscars?
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