Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Marlene Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin she performed on stage and in silent films, and her role as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures.
She starred in many Hollywood films, including six directed by Sternberg, among them Morocco, which earned her only Academy Award nomination, and Shanghai Express. Throughout World War II she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Her later films included Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution, Orson Welles's Touch of Evil and Judgment at Nuremberg, and she spent much of the 1950s to the 1970s touring. Marlene Dietrich's ABC is her most quoted work in our library.
She starred in many Hollywood films, including six directed by Sternberg, among them Morocco, which earned her only Academy Award nomination, and Shanghai Express. Throughout World War II she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Her later films included Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution, Orson Welles's Touch of Evil and Judgment at Nuremberg, and she spent much of the 1950s to the 1970s touring. Marlene Dietrich's ABC is her most quoted work in our library.
Most quoted works
- Marlene Dietrich's ABC 3
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
— Marlene Dietrich's ABC
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
— Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
Grumbling is the death of love.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.