Marlene Dietrich

German actress and singer (* 27 December 1901 in Berlin-Schöneberg, German Empire; † 06 May 1992 in Paris, France).

In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She went to America in 1930, starred in many Hollywood films and became an American citizen in 1937. Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States, and afterwards delivered again notable performances in several post-war films. Most of the 1950s to the 1970s she spent touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. Her return to West Germany in 1960 for a concert tour received a controversal reception. After an accident on stage where she broke a thigh bone in September 1975, her career largely ended. Her last 13 years she spent hidden in her Paris appartment.