 A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. Darling, the legs aren`t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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Trivia
According to daughter Maria Riva, Dietrich had a long-standing dislike of actress Loretta Young.
First German actress to be Oscar-nominated.
Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna`s song "Vogue"
Is portrayed by Ksenia Prohaska in Bugsy (1991).
Proficient on the musical saw.
She spent her last decade in her apartment on the avenue Montaigne in Paris, during which time she was not seen in public but was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. In 1984, Academy Award winning actor Maximilian Schell persuaded her to be interviewed for a documentary, but she did not appear on screen.
Won a Special Tony Award in 1968.
Once said that her favorite meal was hotdogs and champagne.
The only show-business friend she ever had was Mae West. However, they never saw one another outside the Paramount lot.
Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
Became an American citizen on March 6, 1937.
Fell and broke her left leg at her last ever last stage appearance in Sydney, Australia, September 1975.
Marlene suffered from bacilophobia, the fear of germs.
She demanded that Max Factor sprinkle half an ounce of real gold dust into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming.
She prided herself on the fact that she had slept with three men of the Kennedy clan - Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and John F. Kennedy.
She thought of feet to be the ugliest part of the human body, and therefore always tried to hide them in one way or another
Ten years after her death, Berlin - the city of Dietrich`s birth which she shunned for most of her life - declared her an honorary citizen. On April 18, 2002, the city`s legislature bestowed honor on her as "an ambassador for a democratic, freedom-loving and humane Germany." The declaration hoped this "would symbolize the city of Berlin`s reconciliation with her."
Her estate, consisting of about 300.000 pieces, was bid for 8 mio. German marks by the city of Berlin, Germany.
Her father, a Berlin police lieutenant, died after he fell off a horse when she was ten years old.
Her make-up man said she kissed so hard that she needed a new coat of lipstick after every kiss.
In a posthumous gift of forgiveness, she left her vast collection of memorabilia to the city of Berlin.
Interred at Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau, Germany.
Marlene`s father was Lt. Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who died when she was very young. Her mother remarried to Colonel Eduard von Losch, who was killed in WWI.
Never worked without a mirror on the set so she could constantly check her makeup and hair.
Received the U.S. War Department`s `Medal of Freedom`, in 1947, for entertaining American troops in WWII and her strong stand against Naziism.
She sucked lemon wedges between takes to keep her mouth muscles tight.
Was made a Chevaliere of the Legion by France.
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