Marlene Dietrich is a mythical woman and actress who worked actively on the creation of her myth. Her ability to create and manipulate a recognizable and durable star image influenced modern popular icons such as Madonna. The German Marlene Dietrich...

Marlene Dietrich IPA: [maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtrɪç]; (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer. She is regarded as being the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long...

MARLENE DIETRICH was nearly as old as the century. She grew up in Berlin in the years preceding World War I, and became famous in Hollywood in the Thirties. Dietrich made the transition from silent films to talkies. She became a U.S. citizen...

Top hat tilted back, her eyes alive with a sultry contempt, the leggy blonde sang -- or rather breathed -- through the smoky haze of the cabaret stage: "Love's always been my game Play it how I may I was made...

Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994....

Ernest Hemingway, the self-appointed "Papa" of the literary world, liked calling his women friends "daughter," among them Marlene Dietrich, according to letters that suggest their bond was steadfast, passionate and likely platonic.The correspondence between the icons, who met aboard an ocean liner in 1934, details...