Search - Artist/Band: Marlene Dietrich

• Name: Marlene Dietrich
• Birthday: 12/27/1901
• Birth Place: Schöneberg, Germany
• Died: 05/06/1992
• Decades Active: 1930,1940,1950,1960
• Genre: Vocal Music
• Styles: Cabaret, Traditional Pop, Vocal Pop, Torch Songs, Cast Recordings, Show Tunes, Opera
• Moods: Autumnal, Bittersweet, Poignant, Cold, Reflective, Stylish, Wistful, Sentimental, Elegant, Melancholy, Sophisticated

Title	Release
Lili Marlene [LT Series]	01/13/2008
With the Burt Bacharach Orchestra	05/28/2007
Falling in Love Again [Hallmark]	10/31/2006
Berlin	04/04/2006
Wiedersehen mit Marlene/Berlin Berlin	02/06/2006
Marlene Dietrich [Delta Blue] WA	12/26/2005
Strange Delight	08/23/2005
Blonde Women	07/12/2005
Marlene Dietrich-Ihre Groben E	07/12/2005
Marlene Dietrich [Koch]	06/14/2005
Falling in Love Again [Pulse]	04/25/2005
Love Songs	12/28/2004
Legend	11/16/2004
Days Gone By	10/05/2004
Falling in Love Again [ASV/Living Era]	07/27/2004
La Blonde Venus 1928-1948	05/12/2004
Etoiles De La Chanson	04/27/2004
Plus Grandes Chansons	04/20/2004
Mythos Und Legende (Myth and Legend) [EMI]	12/23/2003
Greatest Hits	10/29/2003
The Hollywood Years	02/04/2003
The Anthology: 1930-1949	2003
Marlene Dietrich [First Budget]	07/15/2002
Best Recordings	07/02/2002
Marlene Forever	06/18/2002
Falling in Love Again [MRA]	05/24/2002
Der Blonde Engel-Marle	02/19/2002
Ich Bin Die Fesche Lola	01/27/2002
The Boys In The Backroom	01/01/2002
Unvergebliche Schlager Erfolge	10/23/2001
My Greatest Hits	07/25/2001
My Greatest Songs	07/25/2001
Very Best Of (40 Greatest Hits) WA	07/17/2001
Die Grossen Erfolge	05/08/2001
Marlene Dietrich [Golden Sounds]	03/27/2001
Most Famous Hits	02/13/2001
Remember the Movies	02/13/2001
Legends Collection	2001
An Evening with Marlene Dietrich	12/19/2000
Das Lied Ist Aus	09/16/2000
Sei Lieb Zu Mir	09/16/2000
Platinum Series	08/29/2000
Lili Marlene Best of Marlene Dietrich [Decca]	08/28/2000
Nur das Beste	07/31/2000
Legends of the 20th Century	04/11/2000
Universal Legends Collection	04/03/2000
Cocktail Hour WA	03/14/2000
Der Blau Engel (The Blue Angel)	02/22/2000
A Portrait of Marlene Dietrich WA	01/01/2000
Falling In Love Again [Prism Leisure]	2000
Divas: Gold Collection WA	12/21/1999
Lili Marlene [Arkadia Chansons #2]	08/03/1999
Falling in Love Again [MCA] WA	09/22/1998
On Records & Radio	11/18/1997
Lili Marlene [Arkadia Chansons #1]	11/11/1997
Marlene Dietrich [Empire]	01/28/1997
La Legende	12/26/1996
Great Marlene Dietrich	11/19/1996
More of the Best	10/29/1996
Some of the Best	10/29/1996
Falling in Love Again [Digimode]	1996
Her 18 Greatest Hits	1995
Das War Mein Milljoh	08/19/1994
Come Up and See Me Sometime!	05/30/1994
Die Fruhen Aufnahmen	11/01/1993
The Blue Angel	01/29/1993
The Cosmopolitan Marlene Dietrich	1993
The Essential Marlene Dietrich	09/14/1992
The Best of Marlene Dietrich [Columbia]	08/25/1992
I Couldn't Be So Annoyed	1992
Marlene Dietrich [Bella Musica]	1990
Marlene Dietrich [ASV/Living Era]	1985
The Magic of Marlene	1969
1928-1933
Idole

The most exotic actress of the 1930s and '40s, Marlene Dietrich performed her cabaret act around the world and recorded for Decca, Columbia and Capitol in the post-war period, after her film career had slowed. A thick German accent and her odd sung-spoken vocal style proved no barrier to international popular success and adoration. Born near Berlin in 1901, she began studying acting as a teenager, and auditioned with director Max Reinhardt several times before entering his drama school. She worked in the German theater and film world during the 1920s, gradually assuming star status until her international breakout at the end of the decade, when she appeared in The Blue Angel, directed by American Josef von Sternberg.

The film's success led directly to Hollywood, where she became one of the major female stars of the 1930s, in such films as Song of Songs, The Scarlet Empress, Knight Without Armour and Destry Rides Again. Because of her German heritage, the newly American citizen made a large mark in the war effort, performing the favorite "Lilli Marlene" on USO tours and recording anti-Nazi propaganda in German. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor after war's end. She had recorded music in Germany as early as the late '20s, but Dietrich returned again to the vocal industry in the '50s, first with Decca and then a long-standing contract with Columbia. The label released many live albums, preserving her wild cabaret act from various European capitals (several of them recorded with a young Burt Bacharach serving as musical director).

After her Columbia contract expired, Marlene Dietrich began to record with Capitol in the mid-'60s but retired a decade later, returning only for two roles -- one in the 1979 film Just a Gigolo with David Bowie, the other a 1984 documentary name Marlene, with her recorded interviews but no glimpse of the present-day Dietrich. Just after her death in 1992, a new musical opened based on her life, titled Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind ("Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"). ~ John Bush, All Music Guide