Helen Faraday in Blonde Venus (Paramount production directed by Josef von Sternberg)
1933 Lily Czepanek in Song of Songs (Paramount production directed by Rouben Mamoulian)
1934 Catherine the Great in The Scarlet Empress (Paramount production directed by Josef von Sternberg)
1935 Concha Perez in The Devil Is a Woman (Paramount production directed by Josef von Sternberg)
Josef von Sternberg ended his professional association with Dietrich
1936 Madeleine de Beaupre in Desire (Paramount production directed by Frank Borzage)
Domini Enfilden in The Garden of Allah (Selznick-International production, released through United Artists, directed by Richard Boleslawski)
1937 Alexandra in Knight Without Armour (Alexander Korda—London Films production, released through United Artists, directed by Jacques Feyder)
Maria Barker in Angel (Paramount production directed by Ernst Lubitsch)
Paramount canceled contract with Dietrich
1939 Frenchy in Destry Rides Again (Universal Pictures production directed by George Marshall) became United States citizen
1940 Bijou in Seven Sinners (Universal Pictures production directed by Tay Garnett)
1941 Clair Ledoux in The Flame of New Orleans (Universal Pictures production directed by Rene Clair)
Fay Duval in Manpower (Warner Bros—First National production, directed by Raoul Walsh)
1942 Elizabeth Madden in The Lady Is Willing (Columbia Pictures production directed by Mitchell Leisen)
Cherry Mallotte in The Spoilers (Universal Pictures production directed by Ray Enright)
Josie Winters in Pittsburgh (Universal Pictures production directed by Lewis Seiler)
1943 performed in bond tours and radio broadcasts and made personal appearances as part of domestic war effort until departure for Europe in 1944
1944 guest appearance in Follow the Boys (Universal Pictures production directed by Eddie Sutherland)
Jamilla in Kismet (MGM production directed by William Dieterle) performed in USO tour at European front until end of war in 1945
1945 death of mother repatriated to United States at close of war
1946 Blanche Ferrand in Martin Roumagnac (Alcina production directed by Georges Lacombe)
1947 Lydia in Golden Earrings (Paramount production directed by Mitchell Leisen) awarded Legion d’Honneur
1948 Erika von Schluetow in A Foreign Affair (Paramount production directed by Billy Wilder)
1949 guest appearance as nightclub entertainer in Jigsaw (Tower Pictures production, released through United Artists, directed by Fletcher Markle)
1950 Charlotte Inwood in Stage Fright (Warner Bros—First National production directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
1951 Monica Teasdale in No Highway in the Sky (20th Century-Fox production directed by Henry Koster)
1952 Altar Keane in Rancho Notorious (Fidelity Pictures production, distributed by RKO-Radio Pictures, directed by Fritz Lang)
1953 mistress of ceremonies in gala charity event at Madison Square Garden debut as diseuse at Sahara, Las Vegas, followed by domestic and international tours until the mid 1970s
1954 appeared at Café de Paris, London guest
1956 appearance in Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Todd Company, Inc., production, released through United Artists, directed by Michael Anderson)
1957 Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur in The Monte Carlo Story (Titanus production, released through United Artists, directed by Samuel A. Taylor)
Christine Vole in Witness for the Prosecution (Edward Small-Arthur Hornblow Production, released through United Artists, directed by Billy Wilder)
1958 fortune teller in Touch of Evil (Universal-International production directed by Orson Welles)
1960 first German tour
Israeli tour
1961 Mme. Bertholt in Judgment at Nuremberg (Roxlom production, released through United Artists, directed by Stanley Kramer)
1962 narrator of The Black Fox, a documentary on Hitler (Arthur Steloff—Image production, released by Heritage Films, Inc , directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen)
1964 guest appearance in Paris When It Sizzles (Paramount production directed by Richard Quine)
Russian tour
1967 Broadway debut in one-woman show at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City
1972 first television special, I Wish You Love (directed by Alexander Cohen at New London Theater, London)
1976 broke thigh while performing in Sydney, Australia
1978 Baroness von Semering in Just a Gigolo (Leguan production directed by David Hemmings)
INDEX
A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T
V | W | Y
“Accustomed to Her Face,” 179
Adrian (costume designer), 177
Aherne, Brian, 110
Albers, Hans, 51
Allen, Woody, 143
All Quiet on the Western Front, 152
Angel, 174
Arlen, Harold, 165-66, 179
Armstrong-Jones, Anthony, 181
Around the World in Eighty Days, 121
Ashes and Diamonds, 110
Auden, W. H., 156
Aumont, Jean-Pierre, 222—24
Avedon, Richard, 181
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 11, 36
Bacharach, Burt, 111-12, 155, 231-43, 255, 257
Baker’s Wife, The (La Femme du Boulanger), 116
Bancroft, George, 80
Barrymore, John, 109
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 172
Basserman, Albert, 41
Baudelaire, Charles, 156
Beaton, Cecil, 181
Becaud, Gilbert, 243
Becky (governess), 82, 88
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 234
Benny, Jack, 188
Benton, Travis, 81, 176
“Berceuse” (Gounod), 25
Berger, Helmut, 80
Bergner, Elisabeth, 40, 41, 42, 172
Bernhardt, Sarah, 252
Biancini, 228
Bierbaum, Otto Julius, 250
Blackmore, Dr., 165, 166
Blonde Venus, 84-85, 86-87
Blue Angel, The, 47, 51-60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68-69, 77, 95, 107, 253
“Blue Hour, The,” 50
Blumenthal (Paramount representative), 70-71
Boll, Heinrich, 156, 259
Borzage, Frank, 62, 112, 173
Boulton, Davis, 180
Bourdet, Edouard, 49
Bow Ties (Zwei Krawatten), 51
Boyer, Charles, 174, 175
Braddock, Bessie, 158-59
Bradley, Omar, 211-12, 224
Brahms, Johannes, 26
Brecht, Bertolt, 256
Brent, Evelyn, 80
Bridges (chauffeur), 111
Brooks Company, 227
Bruhn, Erik, 171-72
“Burlington Burty” 179
Burton, Richard, 116-17
Cabot, Bruce, 184
Cafe de Paris (London), 158, 161
Caldwell, Erskine, 156
Capra, Frank, 181
Cardin, Pierre, 242
Cau, Jean, 253
Cerdan, Marcel, 169-70
Cezanne, Paul, 162
Chabrol, Claude, 122
Chaplin, Charlie, 114-15
Chevalier, Maurice, 85
“Children, Tonight,” 238
Chopin, Frederic, 11, 26, 27
Christmas Tale, 116
Clair, Rene, 132, 135, 184-85
Cocteau, Jean, 252-53, 254
Cohn, Harry, 119, 227
Cole, Nat King, 168-69
Colman, Ronald, 192
Colpet, Max, 233
Columbia Pictures, 119, 181, 227
Cooper, Gary, 107, 108, 130, 173, 192
Courtney, Elizabeth, 227-28
Coward, Noel, 92, 157-58, 159-60, 161, 230, 233, 256
Crawford, Joan, 104, 181
Crosby, Bing, 103
Cybulski, Zbigniew, 110-11
Dalio, Marcel, 135
Davis, Joe, 161, 240-41
Dayan, Moshe, 256
“Dead Leaves,” 141
Death and the Fool, 37
De Bakey, Michael, 247-49
Desire, 103-4, 112, 173-74, 253
Destry Rides Again, 183
Devil Is a Woman, The (The Spanish Dancer), 64, 81, 97-99
Dickens, Charles, 156
Dieterle, William, 191
Dietrich in Rio, 234
Dior, Christian, 121
Dishonoured (X.27), 95-97, 253
Dolly Sisters, 49
Donat, Robert, 110
Dot (makeup artist), 78, 96
“Dream at Twilight,” 250
Dryden, Ernest, 174, 175
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 126, 211 Eisenstein, Sergei, 123
Engel (refugee worker), 186, 188
Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris), 242
Farrell, Sonia, 249
Faulkner, William, 156
Faust, 37
Feldman, Charlie, 183, 221
Femme du Boulanger, La (The Baker’s Wife), 116
Ferrer, Mel, 185
Feyder, Jacques, 112
Figure of a Young Girl, 163
Fitzgerald, Ella, 237
Flame of New Orleans, The, 184
Fleming, Sir Alexander, 117-19, 142, 255
Flesch, Professor, 36
Flotow, Freiherr Friedrich von, 28
Follow the Boys, 121
Fonteyn, Margot, 171
Foreign Affair, A, 126-27, 226
Forster, Rudolf, 187
Forster-Larrinaga, 47
Francis, Dick, 157
Free French forces, 136-39
Freeman, Stan, 245, 247
Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 13
Fry, Christopher, 253-54
Gabin, Jean, 132, 135, 136-42, 224, 256
Garbo, Greta, 104, 105, 131, 181, 255
Garden of Allah, The, 72, 174-76, 178
Garnett, Tay, 111, 183
Gaulle, Charles de, 137, 139
Gavin, James, 210, 224
Giacometti, Alberto, 162-63
Glass, Bertha, 26-27
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 32, 33-34, 36, 154, 156, 218
Golden Earrings, 77, 141, 226
Gounod, Charles, 25
Grantz, Norman, 237
Grass, Günter, 259
Great Baritone, The, 41
Great Dictator, The, 114
Greene, Milton H., 181
“Gretchen’s Prayer,” 37
Guinness, Sir Alec, 158
Hale, Georgia, 80
Hamsun, Knut, 154, 155, 156
Handel, Georg Friedrich, 11
Handke, Peter, 259
Hans (cousin), 23-24
Harlow, Jean, 104
Haver, Phyllis, 80
Hayworth, Rita, 119
Heine, Heinrich, 195
Mark Hellinger Theatre (New York City), 233
Hemingway, Ernest, vii, 59, 142, 144-51, 156, 251-52, 256, 257
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 145, 148, 149-50
Hepburn, Katharine, 181, 242
Hichens, Robert, 174
Hindle, Dr., 117, 118, 119
Hitchcock, Alfred, 115
Hitler, Adolf, 91, 92, 114, 138, 153, 185, 217, 238
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 37
Hollaender, Friedrich, 238
“Hollywood Committee,” 186
“Hymne a l’amour,” 170
“I Get a Kick out of You,” 159
Irene (costume designer), 177, 190, 191, 192
It’s in the Air, 47-51
Jannings, Emil, 52, 53, 54
Jessel, George, 188
“Je tire ma reverence,” 244
Job, 154
“Joe Turner Blues, The,” 168-69
Jong, Erica, 157
Joseph, Dr., 40
Judgment at Nuremberg, 110, 242-43
Kaiser, Georg, 51
Kalmus, Natalie, 177
Kanin, Garson, 205
Kant, Immanuel, 34
Karinska (costume designer), 177
Karlweiss, Oskar, 50
Katcher, Rudolf, 186-87
Kazan, Elia, 258
Kennedy, John F, 182, 183, 256
Kismet, 190-92
Komodie (Berlin), 47-48
Kramer, Stanley, 242
Lacombe, Georges, 141
Ladies Home Journal, 147
Lanchester, Elsa, 128
Lang, Fritz, 185-86
Lastfogel, Abe, 204-5
Laughton, Charles, 127-28
Leclerc, Jacques, 137
Legion of Honor, 140
Leisen, Mitchell, 141, 226
Lerner, Alan Jay, 179, 250
“Let’s Take It Nice and Easy,” 244
Liberman, Alex, 162
Liebman, R., 89
Liebmann, Robert, 95
Lion, Margo, 48-51
Lodge, John, 93
Logan, Joshua, 174, 175
Lombard, Carole, 104
“Look Me over Closely,” 231
Losch, Eduard von (stepfather), 7-8, 11-12, 18-19, 22, 29, 37, 43
Losch, Wilhelmina von (mother), viii, 5, 7, 9, 11-32, 35, 36-37, 38, 43, 44, 45, 148
Louis, Jean, 179, 227-28
Louys, Pierre, 97, 99
Lovelle (musician), 232
Lubitsch, Ernst, 62, 103, 112, 173, 174, 186, 187
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (New York City), 232-33
McAuliffe, Anthony, 210, 224
McBain, Ed, 156 McCambridge, Mercedes, 120
MacDonald, John, 156
Madison Square Garden (New York City), 227
Magnificent Ambersons, The, 123
“Makin’ Whoopee,” 244
Malraux, Andre, 252
Mamoulian, Rouben, 173
Manley, Nelly, 72, 103
Mann, Heinrich, 57, 95
Mannheim, Lucie, 52, 53
Manpower, 111, 186
Manzierly, Sacha de, 137
Marianne (guitar teacher), 28-29
“Marie-Marie,” 243-44
Markle, Fletcher, 119
Marshall, George, 111, 183
Martha (knitting teacher), 28
Martha, 28
Martin Roumagnac, 140—41
Mary (embroiderer), 228
Matz, Peter, 230, 231
May, Joe, 39
Mayberry, Lynn, 204, 205, 213
Mayer, Louis B., 190
Medal of Freedom, 140
Menjou, Adolphe, 77-78
Meredith, Burgess, 205
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 104, 131, 176-177, 181, 190, 192
Mewes, Anni, 40-41
Miller, Bill, 227
Miller, Mitch, 231
Misalliance, 41
Monroe, Marilyn, 104, 105
Moorehead, Agnes, 119
Morocco, 47, 63, 77-78, 89, 107-8, 173, 253
Mosheim, Grete, 37-38, 39
Mother Courage, 256
Museum of Modern Art (New York City), 95, 162
“My Best Girlfriend,” 49
Negri, Pola, 105
New York Theater Critics Award, 129
Niven, David, 110
Nora (Russian interpreter), 155
Nureyev, Rudolf, 171-72
Oh, Coward, 161
Old Heidelberg, 39
Olivier, Lord Laurence, 117
Olympia (Paris), 242
Onassis, Aristotle, 113
“One for My Baby, One More for the Road,” 165, 179, 235
One Woman Show, 232
“On the Sunny Side of the Street,” 74
Oppenheimer, Robert, 142
Oscars, 60, 120, 128-30
Pandora’s Box, 42
Paramount Studios, 64, 66, 69, 70-72, 73, 77, 81, 82, 92, 94, 96, 97, 100, 103, 104, 106, 107, 130, 173, 174, 176, 178, 181, 191
Paris When It
Sizzles, 121
Pasternak, Joe, 183, 184
Patton, George, 201-2, 203, 224, 256
Paustovsky, Konstantin, 154-55, 156, 249, 256
Paustovsky, Mrs. Konstantin, 155
Petain, Marshal Henri-Philippe, 137
Piaf, Edith, 169-71
Pittsburgh, 183, 184
Pommer, Erich, 89
Porter, Cole, 159
Prevert, Jacques, 141
Prisoners, The, 49
Priveteer, Joe, 229-30
Professor Unrat, 95
Prokofiev, Sergei, 235
Queen Mary, 153
Raft, George, 111, 186
Raimu (actor), 116, 224
Rancho Notorious, 185-86
Rathbone, Basil, 164
Redford, Robert, 62
Reinhardt, Max, 37, 38-39, 40, 41, 47
Max Reinhardt Drama School, 37-39, 42-43, 51, 55, 56, 70
Remarque, Erich Maria, 117-18, 151-54, 156, 182
Renoir, Jean, 132, 135 Resi (dressing room attendant), 66-61, 68, 70-71, 73, 74-75, 82, 88
Reuss, Princes, 91
Richman, Harry, 74
Richter, Sviatoslav, 124
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 36, 37, 151-52, 156
Rimbaud, Arthur, 156
Rites of Spring, The, 164-65, 190
Roarty, Dr., 247
Robinson, Edward G., 186
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 189, 217
Rops, Felicien, 56
Roth, Joseph, 154
Sablon, Jean, 244
Sahara (Las Vegas), 227
Sand, George, 181
Scarlet Empress, The, 88, 93-94
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 103
Schiffer, Marcellus, 48, 49
Schulberg, B. P., 64
Schumann Theater (Berlin), 40
Scott, Randolph, 184
Scoundrel, The, 157
Seeger, Pete, 233
Selznick, David O., 174, 175, 176, 178
“Serenade” (Torelli), 25
Seven Sinners, 183
Shakespeare, William, 32, 40
Shanghai Express, 253
Shaw, George Bernard, 41
Shields, Ella, 179
Sica, Vittoriode, 110, 113
Sieber, Maria (daughter), 46-47, 53, 66, 67, 78, 79, 82-83, 85-86, 87-88, 96, 113, 130, 133, 142, 152, 153, 154, 163, 182, 227, 233, 236
Sieber, Rudolf (husband), 39, 42, 43-46, 51, 52, 53, 65, 66, 67, 78, 79, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 96, 108, 113, 152, 153, 182, 236, 239, 246
Sinatra, Frank, 167, 168
Snowdon, Lord Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 181
Song of Songs, 97, 110
Sorrows of Young Werther, The, 33
Spanish Dancer, The (The Devil Is a Woman), 64, 81, 97-99
Spoilers, The, 183, 184
Spoliansky, Mischa, 48, 50, 51, 117, 118
Spoliansky, Mrs. Mischa, 117
Stage Fright, 115
Star, Jimmy, 107
Steichen, Edward, 181
Stein, Charlotte von, 34
Steinbeck, John, 156
Sternberg, Josef von, 47, 51-71, 73-82, 85-101, 107-8, 112, 120, 123, 130, 131, 151, 173, 177, 182, 183, 185, 236, 255