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Marlene Dietrich is subject of new documentary.

American film debut in 1930.
When Jewish artists, many of whom
Special to the Jewish News
Dietrich knew, started fleeing
Germany, her Paris suite became a way
M arlene Dietrich (1901-
station for exiles in need of a meal,
1992) was more than a
money, a job and passage to America.
celebrated movie star
A combination of bad films in America
and sultry cabaret singer.
and the European conflict made her box
She was a woman of valor whose
office poison in the late 1930s, and the
divided loyalties as a native German
Nazis ratcheted up the pressure to have
and naturalized American citizen did
the actress return home and reject "Jewish
not deter her from rejecting Nazi
Hollywood."
Germany and throwing
Instead, Dietrich
her talents behind the
applied
for U.S. citizen-
American war effort.
ship,
whereupon
A world premiere doc-
Germany denounced her
umentary, Marlene
a traitor and enemy of
Dietrich: Her Own Song,
the Third Reich.
parallels Dietrich's per-
During 1942-44,
sonal and professional
Dietrich
entertained U.S.
life with that of her
troops
at
the frontlines,
political activism prior to
at
times
risking
her own
and during World War
life.
In
1947-she
was
II. It debuts, on cable
awarded the Medal of
station Turner Classic
Freedom. Belgium,
Movies (TMC), Dec. 27.
France and Israel fol-
Narrated by Jamie Lee
lowed suit and rewarded
Curtis and directed and
her for her wartime con-
co-produced by
tributions.
Dietrich's grandson, J.
A second career as a
David Riva, the story
Marlene Dietrich in the fi m
singer and performer
juxtaposes archival
"Seven Sinners" (1940).
linked her up with
footage and film clips
Burt Bacharach, who
with live interviews.
recalls
their
Israel
tour, where she was
Among those commenting are
received
with
open
arms. Though the
Marlene's daughter and biographer,
use
of
the
German
language
was for-
Maria Riva, from Dietrich's marriage
bidden,
Dietrich
broke
the
barrier
by
to film director Rudolf Sieber; com-
singing a number of songs in German
poser and conductor Burt Bacharach;
The audience wept and applauded her,
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee and
notes Bacharach.
Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld.
Beate Klarsfeld describes the phone
While Dietrich made more - than 50
call
she got from Dietrich during the
movies, most of them unremarkable,
trial
of Klaus Barbie, the butcher of
the documentary makes clear that her
Lyon
who deported many children to
most enduring role was that of a human
the death camps. Dietrich told her
being unafraid to fight for her beliefs.
how much she admired Klarsfeld's
Berlin in the 1920s was an avant-
work in hunting down criminals like
garde entertainment mecca, where
a
Barbie. "For us women, she was a
taboos were toppled and sexual license
symbol of liberation," says Klarsfeld.
ruled the day. It was in such a milieu
At age 75, Dietrich withdrew from
that the fiercely independent Mary
performing
and lived in voluntary exile
Magdalena became Marlene Dietrich,
in Paris until her death at age 91. -E
chorine and stage ingenue. She got her

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start when Jewish businessmen created
"Das Deutsche Theater" (the celebrat-
ed Max Reinhardt Acting Academy).
The biographical film crisscrosses
between the deteriorating political and
social situation and growing anti-Jewish
sentiment in Germany during the early
1930s and Dietrich's rapid rise to star-
dom and Hollywood icon following her

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
premieres 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec.
27, on Turner Classic Movies
(TCM). For additional showings
and a month-long retrospective
of 19 of her films, check your
local cable listings.

