Dietrich as Covergirl

Here's a sampling of some of the innumerable magazine covers graced by Marlene Dietrich's iconic image--beginning in 1931 with Street & Smith's Picture Play pulp movie magazine, and lastly a hot-off-the-presses--2012--U. S. magazine, German World, published for an audience of German speakers and people interested in German history and culture.

Der blaue engel (1930)

Here is a complete reproduction of a 1930 special extra-long (sixteen pages as opposed to the usual eight) souvenir edition of the German (Berlin) Illustrieter Film-Kurier (No. 1381), with a page of musical notation for the song "Falling in Love Again," as well as stills, plot information, and et cetera.

Also the cover of the regular edition (also with the number 1381), which has Dietrich as Lola as well as Jannings as the Professor (where the special edition has only Jannings).

(These images, by the way, are all very nicely reproduced in the book available from Lulu.com.)

    

 

Still Iconic

Proof that Marlene Dietrich remains an enduring popular icon--a friend in France sent us an image of this painting by an unknown artist, which turned up recently in a Paris art market:

(Thanks to Remi.)