Dietrich, that self-constructed image of beauty, disregarded time and denied much of her history. She maintained that she was an unknown drama student when Josef von Sternberg cast her in “The Blue ...

She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.

Defining cabaret for generations to come, Marlene Dietrich recorded these songs between 1930 and 1959. As an established actress, she brought her charming way with a song to the big screen as modern ...

Josef von Sternberg's classic "Blue Angel" (1930), the film that made Marlene Dietrich an international star, will be among the highlights of the Spring 2002 edition of the "Buffalo Film Seminars: ...

This seminal 1930 sound film about the humiliating downfall of a stodgy schoolteacher after he gets all goo-eyed for the crooning, saucy Lola Lola at the local cabaret launched Dietrich’s career, who ...

Maria Riva, an actress and author who spent much of her life as a self-described “handmaiden” to her mother — the German-born ...