Marlene Dietrich Articles

Marlene Dietrich is Turner Classic Movies last "Summer Under the Stars" star of 2011. Today, TCM is showing 12 Marlene Dietrich movies, in addition to J. David Riva’s 2001 documentary Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song. Riva, I should add, is the son of Maria Riva and Dietrich’s grandson. [Marlene Dietrich Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, TCM isn’t presenting any Marlene Dietrich movie premieres today. In other words, [...]

Marlene Dietrich in Kurt Bernhardt’s The Woman Men Yearn For Among the silent film classics to be featured at this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival are Victor Sjöström’s He Who Gets Slapped (1924), starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert in the newly founded MGM studios’ first production; five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown’s The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Constance Bennett, [...]

Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Morocco Turner Classic Movies is dedicating this evening to filmmaker Josef von Sternberg, best known for his elaborate pageants starring Marlene Dietrich. One of those, Shanghai Express (1932) was shown earlier this evening; another, the creaky melodrama Morocco (1930), which earned Dietrich her sole Academy Award nomination, is on right now. Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou co-star. Next, TCM will present [...]

THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth, Hardie Albright, Helen Freeman Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein, Leo Birinsky; from Hermann Sudermann’s novel and Edward Sheldon’s play Recommended In her first American film without the guidance of Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich was definitely up to the acting challenge of Rouben Mamoulian’s The Song of Songs. Not only [...]