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Marlene Dietrich singing overseas for the American military in World War II as part of the U.S.O.

Melodie Hollander as a baby and her mother.


Elizabeth Taylor and Dagmar Koller from A Little Night Music.

"Dahil Sa Iyo," a song that was written for Imelda Marcos, who was a big fan of Dietrich.


The Elite Trio's "For Mein Vaterhaus," which appears in Peter Rosegger's Waldheimat.


More information about the Elite Trio.

Dietrich adopted this song by Bully Buhlan as her own and was a big fan of his.

Marlene Dietrich with Anna May Wong before Hitler took over. They were at a ball dancing.

Sheet music for Easy Maya, who was a South American singer in Germany and Austria. 


Guiseppe Campora with Alina Borkowski in an opera.


Postcard for German child star Joachim Pfaff.

Albert Rueprecht and his son (the title boy) in 1958. Also, Hans Moser is in the photo.

Book by Kurt Düring, a professor, on Tonga. I met him because he too was a fan of Dietrich.

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Marlene Dietrich and Hans Jaray in a cafe in Vienna, 1934, just before the Nazi takeover.

Marlene Dietrich and her grandson, John Michael Riva.

Spanish movie program for Zarah Leander's The Desert Song (1939).

Zarah Leander and Greta Keller at the Olympics in St. Maurice, Switzerland. Both were big fans of Marlene Dietrich.

Maëa Flohr with Her Two Children!

Maëa Flohr, celebrated Tahitian actress who was a big fan of Marlene Dietrich, starred in Blaue Jungs (1957), known in English as Seamen. Here she is with her two children today. They're all grown up!

If anyone knows when she or her children were born, I'd love to know!

 Dorothy Mackaill and Humphrey Bowgart in "Love Affair".

 Dorothy Mackaill on the telephone.

 Sheet music "Lulu from Honolulu" specially written for Dorothy Mackaill in Hawaii.

 Sheet music written for Marlene Dietrich by Hans Erwin.

 

Marlene Dietrich on the pillow case and Rudi Polt in Chandalar Alaska in the Dietrich valley.

 Maria Riva (at the time caled "Maria Sieber"), with her mother Marlene Dietrich, in a hula skirt.

 

Marlene Dietrich in 1928 playing the ukulele on the beach. She is playing "Aloha Oe" by Queen Lili'uokalani.

Kristina Söderbaum and Casper Harlan