marlene-dietrich-movies

I selected some images from MARLENE's great films that stay in our memory an unique incarnation of feminine beauty and seduction. In her movies she embodies the cold, strong woman, the impassive object of desire for male and female. MARLENE knew how she looked best, she understood to use light to enhance her steely features. She was the ideal body on which to drape fetishistic garments, like silk, furs, boas, feathers and lot's of sparkel.
Travis Banton, her designer in Hollywood did her first movie costumes at Paramount, under direction of Josef von Sternberg and created the incomparable 'DIETRICH Style'. She enjoyed wearing great gowns, hats, uniforms, epecially men's tails, which brought out her inigmatic pale face, the most alluring proportions of her pefect figure and the legendary long legs. The contrast between feminine frills and the masculine rigidity of a top hat she affected added to the male-female interplay the projected. This early MARLENE's mischivous androgyny stamped her for life.
Only DIETRICH can give such beauty, such dignity, such allure to the scarlet letter. DIETRICH the glamorous - Exotic beauty of 'Morocco' - Tragic heroine of 'Dishonored' - Lovely derelict of 'Shanghai Express' - she didn't show even so much as a dainty ankle. And did the movie-goers howl ! - and even more gloriously luscious - as the girl who plays with love, the 'Blonde Venus'.
"Okay," said MARLENE in a throaty guttural, "if they want legs - I'll give 'em legs ....."

See the Movies form 1940 to 1952
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The Blue Angel (Germany 1929/30)
An Erich Pommer-Production for Ufa, directed by
Josef von Sternberg
MARLENE DIETRICH as Lola Lola
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Tihamer Varady, Karl-Ludwig Holub
Songs:
        Blonde Women; They Call Me Naughty Lola;
        Falling in Love Again
Cast:
        Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers ...

Songs:
Quand l´amour meurt; What Am I Bid For My Apple
Cast:
Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt

Shanghai Express (USA 1932)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg

MARLENE DIETRICH as Shanghai Lily
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

MARLENE DIETRICH as Helen Faraday
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

Songs:
        Hot Voodoo; You Little So-and-So; I Couldn´t Be Annoyed;
        German Lullaby
Cast:
        Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore

MARLENE DIETRICH as Lily Czepanek
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

Song:
Heideroeslein; Johnny
Cast:
Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alsion Skipworth

The Scarlet Empress (USA 1934)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg

MARLENE DIETRICH as Catherine the Great
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

MARLENE DIETRICH at the Costume Fitting
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Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

A Style Preview of Forthcoming Motion Picture:
The Devil is a Woman
Cast:
Kathleen Howard, Travis Banton, Joan Bennet, Claudette Colbert, Mae West

The Devil is a Woman (USA 1935)
A Paramount Picture, directed by Josef von Sternberg

Song:
Three Sweethearts Have I
Cast:
Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horten

MARLENE DIETRICH as Madeleine de Beaupré
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

The Garden of Allah (USA 1936)
A Selznick-International Picture, released through
United Artists, directed by Richard Boleslawski
MARLENE DIETRICH as Domini Enfilden
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Ernest Dryden

Knight Without Armour (GB 1937)
Alexander Korda/London Films Presentation,
directed by Jacques Feyder
MARLENE DIETRICH as Countess Alexandra
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : George Benda

MARLENE DIETRICH as Lady Maria Barker
Costumes of Miss Dietrich by : Travis Banton

Songs:
        Little Joe the Wrangler; You´ve Got That Look
        See What the Boys in the Backroom Will Have
Cast:
        James Stewart, Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer

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See the Movies and TV Appearances form 1956 to 1984