Marlene Dietrich
Noun
Meaning
United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992)
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People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Featured were Welles (Orson the Magnificent), Cotten (Jo-Jo the Great), Rita Hayworth (forced to quit by Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn and replaced by Marlene Dietrich ), Agnes Moorehead (Calliope Aggie) and others.
In Morocco (1930) Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman on the lips, and Katharine Hepburn plays a man in Christopher Strong in 1933 and again in Sylvia Scarlett (1936).
In this western parody, he is a pacifist lawman and Marlene Dietrich is the dancing saloon girl who comes to love him, but does not get him.
Kent and "Frenchy" ( Marlene Dietrich ), his girlfriend and the dance hall queen, now have a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers.
Meyers 1998, p. 45. During their two years together, Cooper also had brief affairs with Marlene Dietrich while filming Morocco in 1930 Meyers 1998, p. 62. and with Carole Lombard while making I Take This Woman in 1931.