Bill Miller, director of the Sahara Hotel wanted her for Las Vegas and offered 30000 dollar a week. She agreed und started her unprecedentel career as a stage entertainer. The 'One Woman Show' guided her for the next two decades to Broadway's Lund Fontanne Theatre, Mark Hellinger Theatre New York; Mc Gormic Center Chicago; Prince of Wales Theatre, Café de Paris, Royal Albert Hall, Drury Lane Theatre London; Staatsoper Hamburg; Titania Palace Berlin; German Theatre Munich; Culturepalace Warswa; Berns Theatre Stockholm; Tivoli Crystal Hall Copenhagen; Theatre de I'Etoile, Espace Pierre Cardin Paris; Sporting Club Monte Carlo; Ballroom at Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Hawaii; Puschkin Theatre Leningrad; Estraden Theatre Moskow; Opera Buenos Aires and of course the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, almost around the whole globe.

MARLENE would only sing into her own personal microphone. All her personal objekt had the typical MD initials on it. This microphon even have her full name in white letters engraved and will be exposed at the MDCB.
On tour MARLENE carried her swan coat 'almost' day and night. At night on stage, at day it kept the curious cameras away.