Marlene Dietrich filmography

Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer.

In the 1920s, she acted on the Berlin stage and in silent films, making her film debut in 1922. She was propelled to international fame by director Josef von Sternberg, who cast her as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930). The film's commercial success brought her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the United States.

Paramount sought to market Dietrich as a German answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Swedish actress Greta Garbo. Her first American film, Morocco (1930), directed by Sternberg, earned Dietrich her only Academy Award nomination. She would appear in several other films directed by Sternberg, including Dishonored (1931), Blonde Venus (1932) and Shanghai Express (1932).

Dietrich and Sternberg's last two film collaborations, The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935)—the most styled of their collaborations—were their least successful at the box office. Her first sound film without Sternberg was 1933's The Song of Songs, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, although she and Sternberg would later work together another two times.

Without Sternberg, Dietrich—along with Joan Crawford, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn and others—was labeled "box office poison" after the film Knight Without Armour (1937) proved a box office failure. In 1939, however, her stardom was revived when she played a cowboy saloon girl in the Western comedy Destry Rides Again opposite James Stewart, singing "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have".

While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in films, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, in successful films that included A Foreign Affair (1948), Stage Fright (1950), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Touch of Evil (1958) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Her final film appearance was as herself in the 1984 documentary Marlene.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.

Film

Silent feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1919	Im Schatten des Glücks	Unknown	Unconfirmed role
1923	The Little Napoleon	Kathrin
1923	Tragedy of Love	Lucy
1923	Man by the Wayside	Kramerstochter
1924	The Monk from Santarem	Unknown
1924	Leap Into Life	Mädchen am Strand
1925	Dancing Mad	Dance extra
1926	Manon Lescaut	Micheline
1926	Madame Wants No Children	Dancer	Uncredited
1927	A Modern Dubarry	Kokotte
1927	The Imaginary Baron	Sophie
1927	Heads Up, Charley	Edmee Marchand
1927	His Greatest Bluff	Yvette
1927	Café Elektric	Erni
1928	Princess Olala	Chichotte de Gastone
1929	Dangers of the Engagement Period	Evelyne
1929	I Kiss Your Hand, Madame	Laurence Gerard (Lucille in the US)
1929	The Woman One Longs For	Stascha
1929	The Ship of Lost Souls	Ethel Marley

Sound feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1930	The Blue Angel	Lola-Lola	Separate German and English versions were shot simultaneously.
1930	Morocco	Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
1931	Dishonored	Marie Kolverer
1932	Shanghai Express	Shanghai Lily
1932	Blonde Venus	Helen Faraday
1933	The Song of Songs	Lily Czepanek
1934	The Scarlet Empress	Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
1935	The Devil Is a Woman	Concha Perez
1936	I Loved a Soldier	Anna Sedlak	Unfinished film
1936	Desire	Madeleine de Aupre
1936	The Garden of Allah	Domini Enfilden	Her first Technicolor film
1937	Knight Without Armour	Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
1937	Angel	Maria Berker
1939	Destry Rides Again	Frenchy
1940	Seven Sinners	Bijou Blanche
1941	The Flame of New Orleans	Countess Claire Ledoux
1941	Manpower	Fay Duvall
1942	The Lady Is Willing	Elizabeth Madden
1942	The Spoilers	Cherry Malotte
1942	Pittsburgh	Josey "Hunky" Winters
1944	Kismet	Jamilla
1944	Follow the Boys	Herself
1946	Martin Roumagnac	Blanche Ferrand
1947	Golden Earrings	Lydia
1948	A Foreign Affair	Erika von Schlütow
1949	Jigsaw	Herself	Uncredited cameo
1950	Stage Fright	Charlotte Inwood
1951	No Highway in the Sky	Monica Teasdale
1952	Rancho Notorious	Altar Keane
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	Saloon hostess	Cameo
1956	The Monte Carlo Story	Maria de Creveçoeur
1957	Witness for the Prosecution	Christine Vole (Helm) / Cockney woman
1958	Touch of Evil	Tanya
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Frau Bertholt
1962	Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler	Narrator	Voice
1964	Paris When It Sizzles	Herself	Uncredited cameo
1978	Just a Gigolo	Baroness von Semering
1984	Marlene	Herself	Voice

Short films

Year	Title	Notes
1928	Die gluckliche Mutter	Dietrich biographer Steven Bach notes that the release of this film has not been verified.
1935	The Fashion Side of Hollywood	Promotional short film publicizing costumes designed by Travis Banton.
1937	Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7
1943	Show Business at War
1944	Memo for Joe

Television

Complete list of television appearances (excluding news footage):

Unicef Gala (Düsseldorf, 1962): Guest Appearance
Cirque d'hiver (Paris, 9 March 1963): Cameo as "Garcon de Piste"
Deutsche-Schlager-Festspiele (Baden-Baden, 1963): Guest Appearance
Grand Gala du Disque (Edison Awards) (The Hague, 1963): Guest Appearance
Galakväll pa Berns (Stockholm, 1963): Concert, with introduction by Karl Gerhardt and orchestra conducted by Burt Bacharach
Royal Variety Performance (London, 4 November 1963): Guest Appearance
The Stars Shine for Jack Hylton (London, 1965): Guest Appearance
The Magic of Marlene (Melbourne, October 1965): Concert, with orchestra conducted by William Blezard.
The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (New York, 21 April 1968): Acceptance Speech
Guest Star Marlene Dietrich (Copenhagen – for Swedish Television, 1970): Interview
I Wish You Love (An Evening with Marlene Dietrich) (London, 23 & 24 November 1972): Concert TV Special, with orchestra conducted by Stan Freeman.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1932	Academy Awards	Best Actress	Morocco	Nominated
1958	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Drama	Witness for the Prosecution	Nominated
1958	Laurel Awards	Top Female Dramatic Performance	Witness for the Prosecution	2nd Place
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	—	Won
1962	David di Donatello Awards	Special David	Judgment at Nuremberg	Won
1980	German Film Awards	Honorary Award	—	Won
2003	Online Film & Television Association	OFTA Film Hall of Fame	—	Won