I was introduced to Dietrich at a party in the 1970s. She was utterly mesmerizing. The host had told her about me, and to my amazement she addressed me by name and inquired about my career as a performer and a composer. I was both thrilled and humbled by her kindness. A week later she showed up where I was appearing and presented me with an autographed L.P. of herself in concert. An unforgettable experience.
Wow we have the same birthday. I see some ways in me in her some differences is I'm a mother however I try not to be narcissistic to my son. I've had a childhood were I've been bullied.
Wow, i would love to meet her. I met kim novak once. It was the one and only time i met a celebrity...it was very normal circumstances. I was pregnant with my first son so i was 20 years old and i was staying the night with my aunt who lived in eagle point oregon..i lived in medford oregon. Sunday morning we went to this little church in eagle point down the road from my aunts house. The church was packed and a woman and man sat in the seats next to me and the woman was older and i had no idea it was kim novak. She asked me if i needed to share her hymnal because i didnt have one so we shared a hymnal. When the service was over she asked me how far along i was and she felt my stomach and we had a good short chat where we exchanged names and handshakes. When the service was over my uncle told me i had just met kim novak. I didnt put two and two together that it was the film icon kim novak! As lame as it might be it was a high light of my life and so i have no reason to disbelieve other people who have had a run in with an icon..life is like that, surprising and sometimes we ourselves cant believe it. I would have loved to meet marlene, what an awesome memory.
I met her once, on stage in Poland in the early 1960s, after the curtain fell and asked her for an autograph. It was an eerie experience, standing next to a living legend.
I met her once in Venice, she was in the same cafe as myself and my partner, the way she smoked, so suggestive, she had a little dog and was just waiting for her coffee i think, as we god up i just had to say hello at least or id regret it, she said hello back, we talked just briefly and she was so charming and classy. A moment to remember for us, that’s for sure. We met a few famous faces there over the years.
Went to see her show as a kid, sitting in the front row. During one song she sang directly to me. She was gorgeous, even though she was definitely older, but her legs....
My cousin's husband played lead trumpet at the Fontainebleau when Marlene appeared there and my cousin, who had studied acting, thought she'd go and give the old girl some support. From the moment Dietrich hit the stage, my cousin realized the "old girl" didn't need any help from her or anyone else. A "traitor" who can return to her home country and win 18 curtain calls from a hostile audience is a rare stage phenomenon indeed.
"On Marlene Dietrich" whom I met once. She was the epitome of cool, she gave the impression of being able to look the devil in the face, spit in his eye , and resume powdering her nose.
My father met her at the Concord Hotel in the late 60s when she performed for one night. She was outside waiting for a driver..." Miss Dietrich" he said, "I saw you sing in France during the war"..."Really" ahe said And you're still in one piece?" How's that for personality.
risk is part of life. our constant fetish-like security seeking,makes our lives without exceptional memories. "adventurer" doesnt mean to have sex with whoever comes around. you dont measure a successfull life by its quantity, but the quality of it.
I saw one of those last performances in LA. it was extraordinary, something that transcended flesh, macabre, but full of soul, uncanny. there are no words for such commitment. she was a metaphysician.
" People of extreme fame can get away with living the way they wish to live, because the world and our society, unfortunately, is warped enough to permit them to do so." Brilliant observation. I've worked around high net worth industrialists and celebrities my whole life, and some (not all) but some of them are afflicted by this condition. The one thing I've noticed over the years is that when you exist in an environment where you never hear the word "no"... where you are never challenged.. where you are told only what you want to hear.. where you never have to flex the muscle of compromise.. that muscle eventually begins to atrophy, and you begin to live in an alternative reality. This is why entertainers of all kinds.. do not seem to understand the difference between Entertainment and Social Activism. They are shocked, when after hearing years of nothing but tacit approval from their entourage that suddenly the rest of the public would be appalled by their personal or political views. They cannot seem to grasp that same public simply wishes to be entertained.. not lectured.
And yet, they have a right to their opinion and the privilege to freely speak it, as the rest of us do. The only difference, in my opinion, is that most of us don't have the same platform. Don't let that stop YOU from exercising YOUR right to free speech though! Times, also, have changed; social media gives us all a platform if we but utilize it.
@@davidburbage3348 - Nearly 100% correct. Social Media does NOT give all of us a platform. Most well-known social media has made it very clear that if you have an opinion that we deem "Misinformation".. we're shutting you down. So we do not all have access to equal service by way of social media.
@J N I'm not sure how you draw a connection between the right of each individual, whether prominent or obscure, to be entitled to their own opinion, and an individual who had no respect for the rights of others - women, specifically - in regards to their persons. Mr. Weinstein would have been better suited to join the GOP and their campaign to make decisions about women's control over their bodies.
Studying her mother must have brought some insight and separation. Seeing her mother as some character in history rather than her mother. It is when we are older that we are able to see our parents had their own trauma and problems.
@@akschmidt2085 Oh, I agree. She had plenty of reasons, like we all do, regarding problems with our parents and MD was not the best mother by many standards. My problem w that bio of her mom is how Riva could publish such an unattractive depiction of her own mother. As if she was intentionally trying to undermine her mothers beauty and ability to support her family by pointing out every physical and embarrassing flaw, ie: the unfortunate shape of her mothers breasts, her tendency to piddle when laughing and her political views. What I see is a mother who supported a half a dozen people, private schooling for her child, providing a career and work for her grown daughter and consistent financial support for her daughter. I read the entire 700 page book and came away feeling this was written by a middle aged daughter writing the proverbial stamp her feet hissy fit. Sorry to go on so long here! Your point is well taken. I’m just still heated from finishing the bio by Maria Riva! I thought it was a childish rant. And no one can hold a candle with the beauty of Marlene Dietrich or the joy of seeing her on film.
Docs like this focus on the most sensational aspects. One thing skimmed over: Dietrich donated her own money and raised significant sums to help Jews and other refugees get out of Europe in the years before the war. There are also many stories friends and acquaintances tell of her kindness to others.
Her daughter might have distanced herself frm her mother frm pain but did she distance herself frm her money made money writing a book abt her. One shouldn't have to apologize for making a living for the child or themselves
@@Susieq26754 She did not deliberately set up her child to be molested. It was clearly something she didn't expect to happen -- a terrible mistake, but still, a mistake. The fact that she wouldn't believe it when her own child told her it did happen -- THAT, to me, is harder to forgive.
For someone who was extremely superficial, self-centered, and bigoted, she sounded so articulate, soft-spoken, and even humble in her interviews. Also, she looked amazingly glamorous all throughout her life For all the unfair flack Maria gets for what she says about her mother, she actually makes her mother's legacy that much more fascinating. I'm grateful Maria is so honest about her mother rather than being naive, in denial, and always needing her whitewash her famous parent like many other celebrity kids do.I actually enjoyed Maria Riva's book for that very reason- more for her voice than her mother's life contents.
agree. I know "dietrich queens" who say "what did she know" in regards to rivas book. the daughter did not write a mommie dearest book. it is just honest. the fact that dietrich was alcoholic etc etc etc does not make her a rotten person, she was like anyone else, a person with many facets..she was very smart, a polyglot, a great live performer and sometimes very good in her films...
Revereche Well, she certainly doesn't sound pleasant. She never called her daughter by name (only "the child"), would cook Maria fattening foods then complain about her gaining weight, hired a maid who went on to molest Maria. She even berated Maria for having more than one child, when she already had a "perfect" first child- saying she was a hyper breeder or something to that effect. If all this is true, I'll say this for her. She's certainly a much better actress than people give her credit for, for getting away with such a clean public image.
Revereche You're accusing Maria of homophobia on that basis? That's not a good basis. I find it disturbing you're focusing more on that rather than the child molestation. Her mother and the maid lost any kind of benefit of a doubt after something like that happens. By the way, I don't recall Maria saying anything negative about her mother's female lover, Mercedes DeCosta, or homosexuals in general, so you're probably not correct about her "homophobia" anyway.
Thanks for posting. I saw an interview with Katherine Hepburn, with Barbara Walter (how many people remember BaBa WaWa??) and she asked KH about children. KH responded that she could be a great actress or a great mother but not both 'cause the child would suffer and the career would suffer, neither would get the proper attention. "I chose to be a great actress." Chaz Bono once said that when people like his mother had children, the career was like another child that needed much more attention. Lucie & Desi Arnez said Lucy very rarely paid attention to them, it was always their father that offered the support. "If mom waved to us from her office while we were in the pool with dad, she (meaning Lucy) considered that playing with us." It is just a fact that a career takes favor, or the child, not both. So, I don't think MD was different than most famous uber-star/mothers. Just the other day I read a quote from MD: "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men." That is basically what her daughter was saying, MD didn't care about herself getting old, BUT it was THE IMAGE she was protecting. Shortley before she died, 2 men broke into her apt in Paris and took pictures of her, terrified, while in bed. THey sold them to the highest bidder, which turned out to be a German newspaper. They paid the price and then did something oh-so-classy: they did not publish them but returned them to MD. They said the pictures just showed a very frightened old woman. After MD died they asked Madonna about MD. She said she was different in that she had more going for her than just looks, like MD had. Madonna just didn't understand. Now, Madonna is close to 60 (OMG) and all people do is make fun of her obvious plastic surgery and how she tries to behave as if she were still 21. I love Madonna but she has none of the class of MD. Wow, I had no idea this comment was going to be so long. Thank you for your patience.
I couldn't agree more, Hollywood has evolved-somewhat since those days. Back then, actresses were signed to studios for a number of pictures. While they were under contract, they were pretty much at the mercy of the powers that be meaning they could loan you out to other studios & there was not much they could do about it. As long as you were signed, you were beat-if the movie was a complete piece of shit rendering you box office poison-too bad, working 80 hours a week for the past six months? Well, we just loaned you out. Pretty much, it was the closest thing to slavery one could get. Nowadays, actresses & their agents pick & choose the projects & they can say NO. This wasn't very conductive to family life, that was for sure. The first actress I know of that tried to change this ungodly system was Mary Pickfair, when she, Charlie Chaplin, & Doug Fairbanks started their own production company, United Artists. They all do that eventually these days, but back then it was quite
@@rufust.firefly2474 Maria released three books about her mother and also published a novel, entitled, "You Were There Before My Eyes", published in 2017.
@Joe Smith Joan Crawford, according to her daughter, was no bargain as a mom either. But they did not get to be screen icons by being good moms. Selfish bitches , YES, pleasant ordinary wives and mothers, NO... Yet when the nice allowance checks arrived from "mama" very few of their children turned them down. And they continued to make $$$$ off of them, even after they died. "No Angels?" Right!
Dietrich was a very adrogynous character on stage, off stage, in film and in public for over 60 years. William Shakespeare said, "All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players" Dietrich lived by these words.
That Shakespearean quote is about spirituality and the souls in our bodies playing roles here on Earth. Earth being the stage. Nothing to do with actual acting or the stage.
Wise words from Deitrichs daughter....”you cannot pray to these people” They are put on a pedestal (for a time) and people look up to them .. WHY????? They are just messed up hurting people like the rest of us! What a lonely life
The vices one has is why a certain few are so intriging to us.... The confidrnce of selfishness dwarfs , fades away our sprits. We become shawdowd .... Still, How strange to speak of her birth mother in the third person. ? Kind of sad in a very separated way.. Diertchs heart shaped shawdow under her nose was why i wanted to work with Gerrgr Hurrell.. lighting her face was the dresm. .... A style icon in every way. I found it unsettling for her daughter to tell her others story ... How could a female so devoid of charissic nlir each of us ... I don't evey their lil kids .... But hating a parent seed wrong . Alll of us are liilreas saint s , are interesting to watch to look upon like it that personal us one... All though her daughter says her life was tragic ... By chosing to be a reculance, chosing to preservre that amazing image for all of us is a very unselfish Beautiful way to dissiper .. Not unlke Bettie Page.
@@annnee6818 Unfortunately many mothers do not believe or choose not to believe their children after horrific assaults especially when done by close friends or family
She didn’t really have a mother, she was part of Dietrich’s entourage. By calling her that she is pointing out how she saw her, which is indeed a tragedy as there was no mother daughter relationship, but Riva is also paying respect to her too for her accomplishment of the Dietrich ethos. Riva has said that even after her tell all book that the reader will still love Dietrich, and that was her magic. I think Riva thought her mother had no idea what love was, and that her life was a tragedy. Even so, she would admit she was great.
None of us really know what happened to Maria but this does not mean that Marlene has no blame in anything. I am a Dietrich fan but I am not so consumed by her that I automatically disbelieve anything negative of her. Regardless of how immaculate we fantasize her to be, she too had many flaws as well as the rest of us.
@@lotus1695 Maria's father is the German movie director that she had married in the 1920's. He was living and working in France right after the war. The 2 of them stayed married all their lives but they both had a lot of different lovers. Despite being very modern with their lifestyle they felt that a child belongs to the mother. So Maria lived with Marlene in the US and her husband Rudolf Sieber only visited them occasionally and even brought his mistress along for the visits.
@@lotus1695 According to Maria, she felt a kindness and maternal love from the mistress, Tamara, but tells of her mother and father forcing Tamara to have over 15 abortions and being mentally cruel to her in many other ways. Tamara stayed with Maria's father most of her life, never being able to marry him and ended up dying in a mental institution. There are many photos of Tamara with both of Maria's parents. Maria felt such conflict and pity for Tamara.
Fascinating woman. She lived the life she wanted to live. Selfish...very. If she hadn't had a child, a daughter, it would have been fine but mothers have a responsibility which Marlene clearly abdicated. But as an actor, a performer, a singer, she was unparalleled.
I've long been a Dietrich fan and knew she had a certain "reputation" but I hadn't realized just how many lovers she had. It doesn't lessen her appeal. But I'm sorry this doc didn't mention her riveting performance in Witness For the Prosecution (directed by Billy Wilder) or her alleged fling with JFK.
DandyLion662a Funny how JFK would be involved with both Marilyn and MD. Marilyns image was so much like MDs, the hair, the dress, the image, maybe He just wanted a younger MD. Strange similarities...
Witness For The Prosecution was her greatest role, in a career filled with great roles. They also failed to mention Judgment At Nuremburg, another of her best films.
My dad told me he had danced with Marlene during WW2. He said it was a great night. I wondered if he did more,she was known to give soldiers a good night.
Sorry to break to ya, but relaying the truth (in a manner where the negatives are actually above ad beyond, respectfully downplayed for someone who didn't even deserve that much) is not "slandering".
What a wonderful biography of one of my favorite stars...I would have loved to had met her & give my personal introduction.I love her voice especially when she sings in French and German........What a gift she had.She could mesmerize whole audiences,leaveing them spellbound & captivated to her wonderful persona...The fact that she seldom wore under garments probably contributed to her sexual and feminine attributes....I watched her in 'The Blue Angel' & 'Destry Rides Again' and will obsessively watch more of her films,especially the one where she downplays Jean Arthur & the one where she is dreesed in mens clothes,sings a French song & kisses a girl in the audience....Wow! She was quite a gal.................
Did you see how amazing she looked before going into her Garbo-like seclusion? Unbelievable. However, I find it sad that she would rather live her last 10 years as a shut in so not to "tarnish the legacy." Is she kidding? Somehow, I would have preferred to see her middle fingers up to the age gods giving zero f**ks about something as insignificant as that, in the way that Kate Hepburn & Bette Davis did. I find that she wasted the last ten years of her life heartbreaking. She was a legend. Everyone gets old & falls apart. There was so much more to her than her dazzling looks. She reminds me of a tough old broad who would be throwing back shots of tequila at 80 years old & laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. I get the impression that she would've been a very loyal friend for some reason
Maria Riva is being very gracious. She was raped and still had to become the mother of her mother. Usually when people go out to live for their own dreams, the people who care for them pay a price.
simpfendorfer My mom took care of her alcoholic/sexually abusive father for the last ten years of his life. He also sold his house to her abusive ex-husband for basically nothing so he could live with her. I have heard about children of neglect or abuse constantly seeking the acceptance of a bad parent as an adult. I have always been a bit curious about the psychological reasoning behind that. I give Maria all the credit in the world and I don't feel she should have been discreet about her mothers neglect. As you wrote, she paid a huge price for her mothers fame but I highly doubt that Dietrich ever looked beyond her own needs to care.
Oona Craig No one is saying the abuse was okay. Beauty, however, is subjective. And while you have the right to think she’s unattractive, which also seems to be influenced by your disgust for her actions as well as your preference for beauty, people will not always agree with your opinion on beauty. People who do terrible things can still be attractive. Ted Bundy was a successful murderer because he seduced women with his good looks. Was he an absolutely horrible human being? Yes. Do I find him attractive personally? No. But other women do and did. So yes, her actions weren’t attractive personality wise, but her physical appearance is not automatically unattractive or ugly simply because of her immoral actions.
There is no way in the world that Dietrich did not know what she was doing by singing Just A Gigolo in the film of the same name....it was an epitaph. Also I believe her daughter is brilliantly able to separate the grand and beautiful illusion of " MARLENE " from the fact that she was her mother. Can you imagine any of us, who still fret and carry wounds from childhood, what wounds we would carry if Marlene was our mother ?
There comes a time when kids have to choose to move on with their OWN lives; kids have to try to see that their parents did what they could with what they had at the time. And they fail sometimes. And kids can still let go and grow. I hope she did after filming this.
Many comments about her singing voice. I also always thought it wasn’t great, but after watching this and seeing the clips of her with a better voice, I think the gravelly flat- toned voice was part of her act. Maybe not wonderful, but good enough for an actress and cabaret
She began as a contralto and after 50 years of cigarettes and booze, dropped to a counter-tenor. Only a beautiful German chanteuse could get away with that.
Thank you so much for this brilliant piece of work. Such an incredible woman. such an incredible life. It shows so much how she felt an allegiance to her audience. Her daughter has been most instrumental in the task of showing us the real person. I think she has done very well. It is sad to read some of the carping here about the work in giving us a fuller picture.. To me I will always remember that wonderful voice-face-figure. Never will we see-hear the like of Marlene Dietrich again
They may have been copyrighted and would’ve caused the video to be taken down. There’s most likely a reason, as cutting scenes takes more effort than just uploading the whole thing :)
The greatest talent Dieterich had was not her beauty, her acting, nor her singing. Her greatest talent was that she lived her life as she chose and, she did it with class. There was nothing vulgar about her. It is as if some entity had surrounded her with a shield that made her untouchable and impervious to malicious gossip. Oh, I'm sure they tried, but she always emerged victorious. That is the greatest talent anyone can possess.
Jesus the daughter is almost more interesting than her mother. I just keep wanting to hear more about her life. Marlene was extraordinary but I would put money on her having been personality disordered.
....... a Late reply but Dietrich would have driven me 'up the Wall' - as Philip Larkin wrote in His poem : 'They can Fuck you Up, your Mom and Dad ...... they may not Mean to; BUT THEY DO'! Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧
@Hannah My mother was born in Berlin in 1927 and survived the Holocaust. During the years of the Berlin wall, the East Germans had to get soldiers from Saxony and Bavaria to patrol because the Berlin guards would let people through. Please don't make personal remarks about people who have experienced a place you know absolutely nothing about. It's exactly what is wrong with the internet.
I think I accidentally crossed paths with her in 1970 when I was wandering a bit lost in a corner of the grounds of a hotel in the south of France. A beautiful, elegant older woman was walking on the arm of a handsome dark-haired young man in a suit, possibly a bodyguard or an aide. They seemed a bit surprised to see me, but he smiled and greeted me, and she averted her eyes. :o)
Dietrich was sitting up in a balcony in a Broadway theatre I think, and Carol Channing came on stage and did a comedic imitation of her singing Falling in Love again in German. The audience was hysterical, and Dietrich rose and stomped out of the box in anger. You didn't fool around with her 'legend'. Happily enough Channing did. You can see it on the web.
her daughters intellect it's impressive. However her commentary, given severely in the third person, in that she refers to her mother as Dietrich, is very telling and suggests conflicting emotions of pride, hurt and anger..very sad; the one thing children should be able to depend on is the love of a parent.
@@LuisaD93 ...i used to do it to my mother when she would start getting on my nerves...of course i was grown by that time...and i would say it in a tone that would let her know that i was about to go off on her...she would then smile and apologize...she was not stupid...when i would repeat a story about her to my siblings when she got on my nerves i would say her name and they would know whats up...i do not think i publicly in a documentary say her name however...i would call her Mother..that being said i LOVE that Maria in this documentary is calling her mom by her last name...its very dramatic shady and compelling...she is absolutely letting us know.. HER VIEW about ....DIETRICH.....
The actress, Marlene Dietrich, chose to support the United State of America during WWII even though she was born in Germany. She chose the winning side and went on to be one of America's sweethearts and remembered for her war efforts.
Yes. We older Germans remember as well. The way people spat at her, when she wanted to come back home to Berlin. Only in death, she was tolerated, and I recall people standing in line along the road to the graveyard, their faces turned to stone.
I was introduced to Dietrich at a party in the 1970s. She was utterly mesmerizing. The host had told her about me, and to my amazement she addressed me by name and inquired about my career as a performer and a composer. I was both thrilled and humbled by her kindness. A week later she showed up where I was appearing and presented me with an autographed L.P. of herself in concert. An unforgettable experience.
Wow we have the same birthday. I see some ways in me in her some differences is I'm a mother however I try not to be narcissistic to my son. I've had a childhood were I've been bullied.
And now you hang out on UA-cam. ???
What a great story!
Wow! What a great memory for you. Thanks for sharing 🤗
Wow, i would love to meet her. I met kim novak once. It was the one and only time i met a celebrity...it was very normal circumstances.
I was pregnant with my first son so i was 20 years old and i was staying the night with my aunt who lived in eagle point oregon..i lived in medford oregon. Sunday morning we went to this little church in eagle point down the road from my aunts house.
The church was packed and a woman and man sat in the seats next to me and the woman was older and i had no idea it was kim novak. She asked me if i needed to share her hymnal because i didnt have one so we shared a hymnal. When the service was over she asked me how far along i was and she felt my stomach and we had a good short chat where we exchanged names and handshakes.
When the service was over my uncle told me i had just met kim novak. I didnt put two and two together that it was the film icon kim novak!
As lame as it might be it was a high light of my life and so i have no reason to disbelieve other people who have had a run in with an icon..life is like that, surprising and sometimes we ourselves cant believe it.
I would have loved to meet marlene, what an awesome memory.
I met her once, on stage in Poland in the early 1960s, after the curtain fell and asked her for an autograph. It was an eerie experience, standing next to a living legend.
So you still have the autograph? You are one lucky guy, don't you ?
I met her once in Venice, she was in the same cafe as myself and my partner, the way she smoked, so suggestive, she had a little dog and was just waiting for her coffee i think, as we god up i just had to say hello at least or id regret it, she said hello back, we talked just briefly and she was so charming and classy. A moment to remember for us, that’s for sure. We met a few famous faces there over the years.
Went to see her show as a kid, sitting in the front row. During one song she sang directly to me. She was gorgeous, even though she was definitely older, but her legs....
Naughty Boy!! I probably done the same" she was drop dead Beautiful 😍.....
My cousin's husband played lead trumpet at the Fontainebleau when Marlene appeared there and my cousin, who had studied acting, thought she'd go and give the old girl some support. From the moment Dietrich hit the stage, my cousin realized the "old girl" didn't need any help from her or anyone else. A "traitor" who can return to her home country and win 18 curtain calls from a hostile audience is a rare stage phenomenon indeed.
"On Marlene Dietrich" whom I met once. She was the epitome of cool, she gave the impression of being able to look the devil in the face, spit in his eye , and resume powdering her nose.
My father met her at the Concord Hotel in the late 60s when she performed for one night. She was outside waiting for a driver..." Miss Dietrich" he said, "I saw you sing in France during the war"..."Really" ahe said And you're still in one piece?" How's that for personality.
I love this
Who. I know how much Americans like to use whom all the time. But it’s who when it refers the the subject of the sentence.
@@garyfrancis6193 that’s your country’s way not ours. Don’t ever correct us again
@@garyfrancis6193 "Whom I met once" is correct. If you say, "I met her once," the object is "her." It's not the subject.
"You do NOT put your child at risk" I love this quote I live by this. This is why I am not a adventurer myself.
Are you famous ? you look like someone .
I know GOD
He made my face to sing but I refrain.
Well Maryjane (cool name ) i think you are very pretty,so if not to sing you can still give pleasure to the eye .
risk is part of life. our constant fetish-like security seeking,makes our lives without exceptional memories. "adventurer" doesnt mean to have sex with whoever comes around.
you dont measure a successfull life by its quantity, but the quality of it.
I saw one of those last performances in LA. it was extraordinary, something that transcended flesh, macabre, but full of soul, uncanny. there are no words for such commitment. she was a metaphysician.
I never heard Marlene sing, but now I get it when Madeline Kahn sang "I'm tired" in Blazing Saddles.
An extraordinarily honest AND balanced bio of a celebrity by someone who knew her professionally and personally. Well done.
I see MD as a woman of enormous talent who was living in a man’s world and experienced all the problems that come from that.
" People of extreme fame can get away with living the way they wish to live, because the world and our society, unfortunately, is warped enough to permit them to do so."
Brilliant observation. I've worked around high net worth industrialists and celebrities my whole life, and some (not all) but some of them are afflicted by this condition. The one thing I've noticed over the years is that when you exist in an environment where you never hear the word "no"... where you are never challenged.. where you are told only what you want to hear.. where you never have to flex the muscle of compromise.. that muscle eventually begins to atrophy, and you begin to live in an alternative reality.
This is why entertainers of all kinds.. do not seem to understand the difference between Entertainment and Social Activism. They are shocked, when after hearing years of nothing but tacit approval from their entourage that suddenly the rest of the public would be appalled by their personal or political views. They cannot seem to grasp that same public simply wishes to be entertained.. not lectured.
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And yet, they have a right to their opinion and the privilege to freely speak it, as the rest of us do. The only difference, in my opinion, is that most of us don't have the same platform. Don't let that stop YOU from exercising YOUR right to free speech though! Times, also, have changed; social media gives us all a platform if we but utilize it.
@@davidburbage3348 - Nearly 100% correct. Social Media does NOT give all of us a platform. Most well-known social media has made it very clear that if you have an opinion that we deem "Misinformation".. we're shutting you down. So we do not all have access to equal service by way of social media.
@J N I'm not sure how you draw a connection between the right of each individual, whether prominent or obscure, to be entitled to their own opinion, and an individual who had no respect for the rights of others - women, specifically - in regards to their persons. Mr. Weinstein would have been better suited to join the GOP and their campaign to make decisions about women's control over their bodies.
Wow! How did the daughter turn out so normal? She has a lot of wisdom and is very calm and without any anger. I am impressed with her.
Studying her mother must have brought some insight and separation. Seeing her mother as some character in history rather than her mother. It is when we are older that we are able to see our parents had their own trauma and problems.
Daughter is not a loving daughter what’s so ever after reading that book she wrote about her mother.
@@g-girl9867 Well, it sounds like she has good reason to resent her mother...
@@MADEbySOUL Yes. I mean, she calls her Dietrich... she must have chosen to detach herself to cope with it all.
@@akschmidt2085 Oh, I agree. She had plenty of reasons, like we all do, regarding problems with our parents and MD was not the best mother by many standards. My problem w that bio of her mom is how Riva could publish such an unattractive depiction of her own mother. As if she was intentionally trying to undermine her mothers beauty and ability to support her family by pointing out every physical and embarrassing flaw, ie: the unfortunate shape of her mothers breasts, her tendency to piddle when laughing and her political views. What I see is a mother who supported a half a dozen people, private schooling for her child, providing a career and work for her grown daughter and consistent financial support for her daughter. I read the entire 700 page book and came away feeling this was written by a middle aged daughter writing the proverbial stamp her feet hissy fit. Sorry to go on so long here! Your point is well taken. I’m just still heated from finishing the bio by Maria Riva! I thought it was a childish rant. And no one can hold a candle with the beauty of Marlene Dietrich or the joy of seeing her on film.
Docs like this focus on the most sensational aspects. One thing skimmed over: Dietrich donated her own money and raised significant sums to help Jews and other refugees get out of Europe in the years before the war. There are also many stories friends and acquaintances tell of her kindness to others.
I was marveling at her sheer beauty in that 1971 interview so I went to Wikipedia to see how old she would've been in said interview.... she was 70!
I saw her when I was about 8. We were in he front row and for one of the songs, she sang to me. It was amazing.
Her daughter might have distanced herself frm her mother frm pain but did she distance herself frm her money made money writing a book abt her. One shouldn't have to apologize for making a living for the child or themselves
@@jandelisle5357 it was the daughters life and story. She can do what she wants with it.
Wow
@@jandelisle5357wow
Marlene the legend still gives me chills! She is stunning. I’m sorry that things were different behind the scenes but that’s not for me to judge.
As a child watching Blue Angel, I was mesmerised with her contralto voice and acting. I would always hum that song… what am I to do. ….
She could say with complete honesty, I Did It My Way.
I don’t care what is said about affairs w/women or other wise I loved her acting and voice she fought against Nazism. Hurray for her!!!
You don't care that she set her own child up to be molested?
@@Susieq26754 I didn’t say that
@@Susieq26754 I know only to well about molestation
@@Susieq26754 She did not deliberately set up her child to be molested. It was clearly something she didn't expect to happen -- a terrible mistake, but still, a mistake. The fact that she wouldn't believe it when her own child told her it did happen -- THAT, to me, is harder to forgive.
@@NuisanceMan my mother
My mother and grandmother adored her. Both her and her daughter are great.
Daughter Maria's life is reminiscent of so many other children of big stars who were horrible parents.
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Dietrich's daughter is magnificent!
@@mariag8806 You should read the book she wrote about her mother. Why call her my mother ,when she never was one to her.
This is my favourite documentary about Dietrich. A Melvyn Bragg classic and all the more fascinating for having Maria Riva give her insight.
Maria wrote an excellent biography about her mother too!
For someone who was extremely superficial, self-centered, and bigoted, she sounded so articulate, soft-spoken, and even humble in her interviews. Also, she looked amazingly glamorous all throughout her life
For all the unfair flack Maria gets for what she says about her mother, she actually makes her mother's legacy that much more fascinating. I'm grateful Maria is so honest about her mother rather than being naive, in denial, and always needing her whitewash her famous parent like many other celebrity kids do.I actually enjoyed Maria Riva's book for that very reason- more for her voice than her mother's life contents.
agree. I know "dietrich queens" who say "what did she know" in regards to rivas book. the daughter did not write a mommie dearest book. it is just honest. the fact that dietrich was alcoholic etc etc etc does not make her a rotten person, she was like anyone else, a person with many facets..she was very smart, a polyglot, a great live performer and sometimes very good in her films...
kuroniro1 Dietrich sounds like a fascinating person, but a terrible mother. Maria's blatant homophobia is unforgivable, though.
Revereche Well, she certainly doesn't sound pleasant. She never called her daughter by name (only "the child"), would cook Maria fattening foods then complain about her gaining weight, hired a maid who went on to molest Maria.
She even berated Maria for having more than one child, when she already had a "perfect" first child- saying she was a hyper breeder or something to that effect.
If all this is true, I'll say this for her. She's certainly a much better actress than people give her credit for, for getting away with such a clean public image.
Revereche You're accusing Maria of homophobia on that basis? That's not a good basis. I find it disturbing you're focusing more on that rather than the child molestation. Her mother and the maid lost any kind of benefit of a doubt after something like that happens.
By the way, I don't recall Maria saying anything negative about her mother's female lover, Mercedes DeCosta, or homosexuals in general, so you're probably not correct about her "homophobia" anyway.
kuroniro1 I know Maria - believe me, there is nothing homophobic about her.
Thanks for posting. I saw an interview with Katherine Hepburn, with Barbara Walter (how many people remember BaBa WaWa??) and she asked KH about children. KH responded that she could be a great actress or a great mother but not both 'cause the child would suffer and the career would suffer, neither would get the proper attention. "I chose to be a great actress." Chaz Bono once said that when people like his mother had children, the career was like another child that needed much more attention. Lucie & Desi Arnez said Lucy very rarely paid attention to them, it was always their father that offered the support. "If mom waved to us from her office while we were in the pool with dad, she (meaning Lucy) considered that playing with us." It is just a fact that a career takes favor, or the child, not both. So, I don't think MD was different than most famous uber-star/mothers. Just the other day I read a quote from MD: "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men." That is basically what her daughter was saying, MD didn't care about herself getting old, BUT it was THE IMAGE she was protecting. Shortley before she died, 2 men broke into her apt in Paris and took pictures of her, terrified, while in bed. THey sold them to the highest bidder, which turned out to be a German newspaper. They paid the price and then did something oh-so-classy: they did not publish them but returned them to MD. They said the pictures just showed a very frightened old woman. After MD died they asked Madonna about MD. She said she was different in that she had more going for her than just looks, like MD had. Madonna just didn't understand. Now, Madonna is close to 60 (OMG) and all people do is make fun of her obvious plastic surgery and how she tries to behave as if she were still 21. I love Madonna but she has none of the class of MD. Wow, I had no idea this comment was going to be so long. Thank you for your patience.
I couldn't agree more, Hollywood has evolved-somewhat since those days. Back then, actresses were signed to studios for a number of pictures. While they were under contract, they were pretty much at the mercy of the powers that be meaning they could loan you out to other studios & there was not much they could do about it. As long as you were signed, you were beat-if the movie was a complete piece of shit rendering you box office poison-too bad, working 80 hours a week for the past six months? Well, we just loaned you out. Pretty much, it was the closest thing to slavery one could get. Nowadays, actresses & their agents pick & choose the projects & they can say NO. This wasn't very conductive to family life, that was for sure. The first actress I know of that tried to change this ungodly system was Mary Pickfair, when she, Charlie Chaplin, & Doug Fairbanks started their own production company, United Artists. They all do that eventually these days, but back then it was quite
You misspelled "Chastity."
+Jerry Dodson and....?
IbelongtoNYC So you're saying mothers who work can't be good mothers? Or just artists?
I'm not saying anything. I quoted Hepburn and Bono. Please reread.
Maria Riva's bio of her mother. - More than a book about Marlene. A great, sensitive piece of writing. A fine, fine writer.
I read the book. Great...
Hmm... If this is true, where are any other books by Maria Riva to read?
@@rufust.firefly2474 Maria released three books about her mother and also published a novel, entitled, "You Were There Before My Eyes", published in 2017.
OMG. Gary Cooper! So beautiful 😍
schönes Profilfoto! Ich konnte nicht anders, als Hallo zu sagen. Bitte tragen Sie immer dieses Lächeln.
Congrats dear lady for treating our GIs so well.
@Joe Smith Only the good looking ones. lol
@Fast Eddie Did you mean to say Thank you instead of congrats?
Dumm und zwar dumm Kommentare.
"I kissed you because I loved you...for a minute." LOL!!!
I had to memorize that phrase so I can use it myself
I love her so much may she rest in perfection...
Marlene was my favourite movie star but her daughter de3mands my greatest respect
Fantastic Production! Very touching. She was truly one of a kind.
Dietrich is my favorite Hollywood creation of all times. Note that I didn't say best actress. That was Bette Davis.
@Joe Smith Joan Crawford, according to her daughter, was no bargain as a mom either. But they did not get to be screen icons by being good moms. Selfish bitches , YES, pleasant ordinary wives and mothers, NO... Yet when the nice allowance checks arrived from "mama" very few of their children turned them down. And they continued to make $$$$ off of them, even after they died. "No Angels?" Right!
@Joe Smith The daughter that claimed that was a serious Looney tune.
I agree, mine as well. Whatta life.
Im impressed at about 6 minutes, she is 70 years old. Stunning!!
Dietrich was a very adrogynous character on stage, off stage, in film and in public for over 60 years.
William Shakespeare said,
"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players"
Dietrich lived by these words.
No question.
That Shakespearean quote is about spirituality and the souls in our bodies playing roles here on Earth. Earth being the stage. Nothing to do with actual acting or the stage.
She was one of the"Grand Dames" of showbiz!!!
Back then this women stood up for what she wanted and didn't care what others said about her.
but her daughter knew her best and she was there ... we weren't
Wise words from Deitrichs daughter....”you cannot pray to these people”
They are put on a pedestal (for a time) and people look up to them .. WHY????? They are just messed up hurting people like the rest of us! What a lonely life
Admire them for their art, only God should be worshiped.
@@mtngrl5859 You are a very wise lady.
The vices one has is why a certain few are so intriging to us.... The confidrnce of selfishness dwarfs , fades away our sprits. We become shawdowd .... Still, How strange to speak of her birth mother in the third person. ?
Kind of sad in a very separated way..
Diertchs heart shaped shawdow under her nose was why i wanted to work with Gerrgr Hurrell.. lighting her face was the dresm. .... A style icon in every way.
I found it unsettling for her daughter to tell her others story ... How could a female so devoid of charissic nlir
each of us ... I don't evey their lil kids .... But hating a parent seed wrong . Alll of us are liilreas saint
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are interesting to watch to look upon like it that personal us one... All though her daughter says her life was tragic ... By chosing to be a reculance, chosing to preservre that amazing image for all of us is a very unselfish Beautiful way to dissiper .. Not unlke Bettie Page.
Sorry TBI... So sorry
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"the stage is like a battle field."
I agree with her daughter u do not put your child at risk
Maria Da silva And even if you did, you help them afterwards and don't say "you're lying, no one would dare".
Amen
Perfect example of a narcissistic mother. Very sad.
Like Gerry and Kate McCann with tragic Madeleine.
@@annnee6818 Unfortunately many mothers do not believe or choose not to believe their children after horrific assaults especially when done by close friends or family
she calls her mother "dietrich." that is distance from pain.
Jerry Dodson Yup...
She insisted that everyone, including her daughter, called her 'Dietrich".
She refers to the image as Dietrict to separate her from her image...
maybe she said it simply cause the doku is about DIETRICH. what do we know?
She didn’t really have a mother, she was part of Dietrich’s entourage. By calling her that she is pointing out how she saw her, which is indeed a tragedy as there was no mother daughter relationship, but Riva is also paying respect to her too for her accomplishment of the Dietrich ethos. Riva has said that even after her tell all book that the reader will still love Dietrich, and that was her magic. I think Riva thought her mother had no idea what love was, and that her life was a tragedy. Even so, she would admit she was great.
strange how an aging woman is "well preserved" and a aging man is "distinguished"
hasn't changed much in all these decades 🙈🙉🙊
None of us really know what happened to Maria but this does not mean that Marlene has no blame in anything. I am a Dietrich fan but I am not so consumed by her that I automatically disbelieve anything negative of her. Regardless of how immaculate we fantasize her to be, she too had many flaws as well as the rest of us.
I'd like to know where was Maria's father was all this? Why didn't he take Maria to him?
@@lotus1695
Maria's father is the German movie director that she had married in the 1920's. He was living and working in France right after the war. The 2 of them stayed married all their lives but they both had a lot of different lovers. Despite being very modern with their lifestyle they felt that a child belongs to the mother. So Maria lived with Marlene in the US and her husband Rudolf Sieber only visited them occasionally and even brought his mistress along for the visits.
@@nikitaeurope thank you
@@lotus1695
You are welcome. 😃
@@lotus1695 According to Maria, she felt a kindness and maternal love from the mistress, Tamara, but tells of her mother and father forcing Tamara to have over 15 abortions and being mentally cruel to her in many other ways. Tamara stayed with Maria's father most of her life, never being able to marry him and ended up dying in a mental institution. There are many photos of Tamara with both of Maria's parents. Maria felt such conflict and pity for Tamara.
Mary Pickford became reclusive for the same reason. She wanted the fans to remember her as she was.
probably a vague excuse. You get older maybe become more introverted
@Dr. killpatient me too I want my old friends to remember me as I was not as I am now.
@@ginacable5376 Yeah, but, your friends are older now too, right? Actually, as I have found.....they really don't give a shit.
Pickford tried to remain relevant, however the public wouldn't accept her as an adult. Like her late brother she took to drink, and began to isolate .
Greta Garbo too
Fascinating woman. She lived the life she wanted to live. Selfish...very. If she hadn't had a child, a daughter, it would have been fine but mothers have a responsibility which Marlene clearly abdicated. But as an actor, a performer, a singer, she was unparalleled.
You must be kidding
I've long been a Dietrich fan and knew she had a certain "reputation" but I hadn't realized just how many lovers she had. It doesn't lessen her appeal. But I'm sorry this doc didn't mention her riveting performance in Witness For the Prosecution (directed by Billy Wilder) or her alleged fling with JFK.
It did briefly mention and allude to JFK...and showed his picture.
DandyLion662a Funny how JFK would be involved with both Marilyn and MD. Marilyns image was so much like MDs, the hair, the dress, the image, maybe He just wanted a younger MD. Strange similarities...
Witness For The Prosecution was her greatest role, in a career filled with great roles. They also failed to mention Judgment At Nuremburg, another of her best films.
She was more than one person,just like Joan Crawford....
My dad told me he had danced with Marlene during WW2. He said it was a great night. I wondered if he did more,she was known to give soldiers a good night.
Marlene was marvelous!
Maria's exceptionally elegant and refined ; Her ability to articulate in such a beautifully, eloquent manner is admirable.
Are you kidding? She’s now famous only for slandering her mother. What a disgrace this woman is!
Sorry to break to ya, but relaying the truth (in a manner where the negatives are actually above ad beyond, respectfully downplayed for someone who didn't even deserve that much) is not "slandering".
This was a GREAT documentary!!!!! Very interesting and Maria Riva is a very good and smart woman and narrator.
But a disloyal "daughter"
perhaps...
@@britannia5370 😂
I never knew how scandalous Berlin was in the 1920’s.
It is still very hedonistic. Nothing changed.
@@sherekhan90 interesting
That last line… I feel her resentment towards her mother.
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Marlene Dietrich onstage was the epitome of cool.
"She loved him as far as Dietrich could love". Stone cold.
spies and lies
But true!
fools and rules
What a wonderful biography of one of my favorite stars...I would have loved to had met her & give my personal introduction.I love her voice especially when she sings in French and German........What a gift she had.She could mesmerize whole audiences,leaveing them spellbound & captivated to her wonderful persona...The fact that she seldom wore under garments probably contributed to her sexual and feminine attributes....I watched her in 'The Blue Angel' & 'Destry Rides Again' and will obsessively watch more of her films,especially the one where she downplays Jean Arthur & the one where she is dreesed in mens clothes,sings a French song & kisses a girl in the audience....Wow! She was quite a gal.................
Did you see how amazing she looked before going into her Garbo-like seclusion? Unbelievable. However, I find it sad that she would rather live her last 10 years as a shut in so not to "tarnish the legacy." Is she kidding? Somehow, I would have preferred to see her middle fingers up to the age gods giving zero f**ks about something as insignificant as that, in the way that Kate Hepburn & Bette Davis did. I find that she wasted the last ten years of her life heartbreaking. She was a legend. Everyone gets old & falls apart. There was so much more to her than her dazzling looks. She reminds me of a tough old broad who would be throwing back shots of tequila at 80 years old & laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. I get the impression that she would've been a very loyal friend for some reason
I do appreciate this briefing about smashing, sensational Marlene Dietrich! Tks so much!!!
Maria Riva is being very gracious. She was raped and still had to become the mother of her mother. Usually when people go out to live for their own dreams, the people who care for them pay a price.
She was raped by a friend of Dietrich's who was her nanny I think she was only 15 at the time
simpfendorfer My mom took care of her alcoholic/sexually abusive father for the last ten years of his life. He also sold his house to her abusive ex-husband for basically nothing so he could live with her. I have heard about children of neglect or abuse constantly seeking the acceptance of a bad parent as an adult. I have always been a bit curious about the psychological reasoning behind that. I give Maria all the credit in the world and I don't feel she should have been discreet about her mothers neglect. As you wrote, she paid a huge price for her mothers fame but I highly doubt that Dietrich ever looked beyond her own needs to care.
wolgaschl=pper
excellent perceptive comments. some should never be parents--
Oona Craig No one is saying the abuse was okay. Beauty, however, is subjective. And while you have the right to think she’s unattractive, which also seems to be influenced by your disgust for her actions as well as your preference for beauty, people will not always agree with your opinion on beauty. People who do terrible things can still be attractive. Ted Bundy was a successful murderer because he seduced women with his good looks. Was he an absolutely horrible human being? Yes. Do I find him attractive personally? No. But other women do and did. So yes, her actions weren’t attractive personality wise, but her physical appearance is not automatically unattractive or ugly simply because of her immoral actions.
I feel bad for her daughter
P.P.S. Madeline Kahn did a good impression of her in blazing saddles
It was a mix or heady lamar and Marlene
Big facts
A brilliant documentary! Thanks for uploading it. ♥
I am so grateful for this video. I have learned more about Marlene than I ever did
You don't put ANY child at risk !
for this she's been horribile
Very surprised but then again, some women have a libido of men and the morals of tomcats.
There is no way in the world that Dietrich did not know what she was doing by singing Just A Gigolo in the film of the same name....it was an epitaph. Also I believe her daughter is brilliantly able to separate the grand and beautiful illusion of " MARLENE " from the fact that she was her mother. Can you imagine any of us, who still fret and carry wounds from childhood, what wounds we would carry if Marlene was our mother ?
We are all flawed humans...she also did alot of good during the war
maria Rivas: a Classier Act
There comes a time when kids have to choose to move on with their OWN lives; kids have to try to see that their parents did what they could with what they had at the time. And they fail sometimes. And kids can still let go and grow. I hope she did after filming this.
The woman was a narcissist.
Do you know what that means?!!!
My mom’s sister was friends with her daughter. I have pics of her daughter at my aunts wedding back in the 50s
complex fascinating woman....thanx for sharing, Louie...thanx
Excellent documentary, after reading Marias Book , a good addition to understand even better this complicated women.
Many comments about her singing voice. I also always thought it wasn’t great, but after watching this and seeing the clips of her with a better voice, I think the gravelly flat- toned voice was part of her act. Maybe not wonderful, but good enough for an actress and cabaret
She began as a contralto and after 50 years of cigarettes and booze, dropped to a counter-tenor. Only a beautiful German chanteuse could get away with that.
but she never sings off key
Thank you so much for this brilliant piece of work. Such an incredible woman. such an incredible life. It shows so much how she felt an allegiance to her audience. Her daughter has been most instrumental in the task of showing us the real person. I think she has done very well. It is sad to read some of the carping here about the work in giving us a fuller picture.. To me I will always remember that wonderful voice-face-figure. Never will we see-hear the like of Marlene Dietrich again
Riva never referred to her mother has mother, or my mother. That's interesting...
nor did she call her by first name, only Dietrich....
She wasn’t her mother, she wasn’t in her life. Strangers were known more to her, mommy was too busy being immoral
Riva used her all she could but never loved her!
And somewhat damning
In private, she always called her Mutti (short for Muter in german). In public she calls her dietrich whenever she talks about her as an artist
Marlene thumbed her nose at rigid rules for women. That's what made her fascinating.
@@TheTazzietiger there is nothing new or progressive about rampant immorality. same old boring stuff has gone one for millenia.
and best of all she thumbed her nose at Hitler.
What's with the choppiness? A riveting story with missing pieces.
i read your comment because i needed to know it was not a problem with my computer.
Hey, me too Paul !
Annoyingly here too
ikr.. i'm guessing it was probably a deliberate workaround yt's copyvio strikes, but sooooo annoying!!!
They may have been copyrighted and would’ve caused the video to be taken down. There’s most likely a reason, as cutting scenes takes more effort than just uploading the whole thing :)
Love the picture of Judy garland hugging marlena in such bliss
Marlene Dietrich was a film icon and this documentary really showed her as a human being. Good job!
The greatest talent Dieterich had was not her beauty, her acting, nor her singing. Her greatest talent was that she lived her life as she chose and, she did it with class. There was nothing vulgar about her. It is as if some entity had surrounded her with a shield that made her untouchable and impervious to malicious gossip. Oh, I'm sure they tried, but she always emerged victorious. That is the greatest talent anyone can possess.
So glad I saw this. Always the star. Thank you for posting.
PS. When she died I was living in Berlin Germany near where she is buried.
Marlene loved being in love for just a moment; she knew herself very well!
I remember seeing Der Blau Engel--and it is a movie that has always stayed with me...
Guess crudeness is its own reward.
Jesus the daughter is almost more interesting than her mother. I just keep wanting to hear more about her life. Marlene was extraordinary but I would put money on her having been personality disordered.
Smoke and mirrors
She just had the simple definition of narcissism
@Charlie Hunt
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Bingo.
....... a Late reply but Dietrich would have driven me 'up the Wall' - as Philip Larkin wrote in His poem :
'They can Fuck you Up,
your Mom and Dad ......
they may not Mean to;
BUT THEY DO'!
Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧
Thank you I was totally engrossed without constant commercial interruptions very generous
...loved this documentary...loved the daughter speaking...just loved everything about this ....BRAVO...
Berlin is still the same. City of sin and fun. So much fun to be had in Berlin. Love this city. Going in 2 days. City of hedonism.
Juan Silva. I love Berlin too. I've always had a great time there.
@Hannah My mother was born in Berlin in 1927 and survived the Holocaust. During the years of the Berlin wall, the East Germans had to get soldiers from Saxony and Bavaria to patrol because the Berlin guards would let people through. Please don't make personal remarks about people who have experienced a place you know absolutely nothing about. It's exactly what is wrong with the internet.
You would risk eternal seperation from God for a season of sinful pleasure? Why?
@Hannah you should not judge other people.
@@Susieq26754 Sky daddy.
wow amazing woman, she was very well preserved and so talented, what a wonderful life and career she had.
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A lovely heart felt tribute to an icon. Thank Yous.
TOP TEN ALL TIME DIVA.
not much of a recommendation. divas are disgusting.
top 2
Love Dietrich!No one compares to her and Garbo and Taylor!
& Marylin & Audrey & Bardot & Loren &&&&& what are all the names.
I think I accidentally crossed paths with her in 1970 when I was wandering a bit lost in a corner of the grounds of a hotel in the south of France. A beautiful, elegant older woman was walking on the arm of a handsome dark-haired young man in a suit, possibly a bodyguard or an aide. They seemed a bit surprised to see me, but he smiled and greeted me, and she averted her eyes. :o)
Or her lover
Dietrich was sitting up in a balcony in a Broadway theatre I think, and Carol Channing came on stage and did a comedic imitation of her singing Falling in Love again in German. The audience was hysterical, and Dietrich rose and stomped out of the box in anger. You didn't fool around with her 'legend'. Happily enough Channing did. You can see it on the web.
Marlene, Bette, Katherine & Mae.. those were dames. Said with all respect due ✊🏻
I like vintage foreign films. Blue Angel was OK. I heard rumors about her and Kennedy, never knew they were true. I' m glad she was against Hitler.
her daughters intellect it's impressive. However her commentary, given severely in the third person, in that she refers to her mother as Dietrich, is very telling and suggests conflicting emotions of pride, hurt and anger..very sad; the one thing children should be able to depend on is the love of a parent.
588158 it shows that she had little respect for her mother. I myself do this to people with whom I severely disrespect or dislike.
@@LuisaD93 she had ample reason to withold respect from a mother like dietrich.
@@LuisaD93 ...i used to do it to my mother when she would start getting on my nerves...of course i was grown by that time...and i would say it in a tone that would let her know that i was about to go off on her...she would then smile and apologize...she was not stupid...when i would repeat a story about her to my siblings when she got on my nerves i would say her name and they would know whats up...i do not think i publicly in a documentary say her name however...i would call her Mother..that being said i LOVE that Maria in this documentary is calling her mom by her last name...its very dramatic shady and compelling...she is absolutely letting us know.. HER VIEW about ....DIETRICH.....
I noticed that as well.
''forgot'' to wear under garments, lol, ok
Sad that's all you wanted to comment after this beautiful, haunting documentary
Her accent is so pretty
What a star 🌟
Great Documentary !
Marlene Forever !!
Thanks for sharing :-)
Irene.
I loved her…saw her show in San Francisco. Mesmerizing
The actress, Marlene Dietrich, chose to support the United State of America during WWII even though she was born in Germany. She chose the winning side and went on to be one of America's sweethearts and remembered for her war efforts.
Yes. We older Germans remember as well. The way people spat at her, when she wanted to come back home to Berlin. Only in death, she was tolerated, and I recall people standing in line along the road to the graveyard, their faces turned to stone.