Thursday, March 28, 2013

A Letter from Marlene Dietrich

Below is a brief letter from Dietrich to German artist Kurt Winkler (bottom), who'd obtained a  recording of a song ("Wegen dir mein Freund") by Claire Waldoff for her.




Monday, March 25, 2013

Dietrich's Daughter

A theater program for the Broadway play "Tea and Sympathy" from the 1950s, with Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva appearing with Alan Baxter.





Sunday, March 24, 2013

Live in 1975

A still taken during Dietrich's live concert performance in the "Molokai" showroom at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 1st, 1975. This was one of the performances Dietrich gave in the series of concerts advertised in the flyer posted earlier.


Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Marlene Dietrichová

Dietrich on the cover of a Czechoslovakian periodical immediately after World War II, during her time with the U. S. Army, when she routinely sang "Lilli Marleen" and other favorites for Allied soldiers in Europe and North Africa.


Saturday, March 16, 2013

On the Cover Again

On the cover of the American Film Institutes Quarterly journal AFI Report, from Winter 1973, to accompany an article on women in film. The image is from the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress.


Sunday, March 10, 2013

Dietrich's Ghosts

Marlene Dietrich on the cover of Erica Carter's 2004 book Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film. The picture is from the early 1930s.


Friday, March 8, 2013

Marlene Dietrich in Honolulu

A promotional flyer for a series of four concerts Marlene Dietrich did at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel's Hawaii Ballroom in 1975.


After this engagement Dietrich went on to perform in Mexico and Australia.


Monday, March 4, 2013

Cover Girl Again

On the cover of a paperback edition of songwriter and bandleader Peter Kreuder's autobiography:

Saturday, March 2, 2013

In London, 1964

Marlene Dietrich with songwriter (and then her bandleader Burt Bacharach) and Austrian songwriter from Gratz, Hertha Koch, who wrote the anti-war song "In den Kasernen" ("In the Barracks").

Friday, March 1, 2013

Swedish Biographies

From a series published in the late 1940s. Below the edition dedicated to Marlene Dietrich are two more on Swedish actresses Greta Garbo and Zarah Leander.