Saturday, January 5, 2013

If you want to see a star . . .

A collection of songs performed by four female vocalists Marika Rökk, Zarah Leander, Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef, released by Polydor in England in the late 1960s.

Friday, January 4, 2013

More Musical Skills

Dietrich with a guitar, taken during the filming of The Monte-Carlo Story (1957).


Sunday, December 9, 2012

Marlene Dietrich Candid

From the 2003 book Mes Stars: L'Album Secret de Willy Rizzo, a collection of photographs of various celebrities and public figures:



 

Friday, November 23, 2012

Fraulein Wonder

A collection of performances by three German-speaking female vocalists--Zarah Leander, Hildegard Knef and Marlene Dietrich.


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Dedication . . .

Here is a song dedicated to Marlene Dietrich--one of many over the years--Austrian tenor and occassional composer Richard Tuaber.




Saturday, November 10, 2012

Saturday, October 20, 2012

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.






Thursday, September 13, 2012

At the Piano

Another instrument Dietrich played. Here with Gary Cooper in Desire (1936).


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Monday, September 10, 2012

More Musical Skills

Dietrich singing "I May Never Go Home Anymore" (originally "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb eins") and accompanying herself on the accordion, in the 1957 film Witness for the Prosecution:


Thursday, August 30, 2012

Musical

Besides the violin and the notorious musical saw, Dietrich was notably capable on other musical instruments. Witness the two pictures below from The Monte-Carlo Story:



She also played the guitar in the same film, and in Witness for the Prosecution performed the song "I May Never Go Home Anymore" accompanying herself on the accordion.