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Marlene Dietrich’s Scandalous Trousers

5/20/2023

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Black and white photograph of Dietrich wearing a white suit and beret and holding a cigarette
​​Defying Nazis and gender norms, Marlene Dietrich was far more than an Oscar-nominated actress… though she was that too. From Weimar Berlin’s cabaret scene to golden-age Hollywood and beyond, Dietrich carved a distinctive path for herself, and crafted an iconic star image. While that star image relied in large part on a cloud of golden hair and long, elegant legs, Dietrich was also often gender-non-conforming, on and off the stage and screen. This podcast episode looks at her international, multilingual, and intermittently scandalous life and career.

​Host: Lucy
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Further Reading

Steven Bach, Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend.

Eva Gesine Baur, Einsame Klasse: Das Leben der Marlene Dietrich.

Marlene Dietrich, Marlene.

Grace Aldridge Foster, "Marlene Dietrich dressed for the image, not for you," Smithsonian Insider (2017).

Karl Theodor Körner, “Abschied vom Leben.” 

Barbara Kosta, Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
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Kathleen E.R. Smith, “Tin Pan Alley’s Music War Committee.” In God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, University Press of Kentucky (2003): 114–27.

Kelly Smith, “Marlene Dietrich,”  via WomensHistory.org

"Marlene Dietrich OSS Album," International Spy Museum.

John Theobald, “Ballad for Lili Marlene.” Poetry 66, no. 3 (1945): 142–44.

Marlene Dietrich sings at the UNICEF GALA 1962 " sag mir wo die Blumen sind."

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
2 Comments
Joe cashman link
5/20/2023 04:06:30 pm

Thank you! Entertaining and informative. I always thought that aloof persona generated so much mystery. A fascinating person. I had no idea about her personal involvement in the war (the big one as my dad would say). Thanks again.

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Lucy link
5/21/2023 03:13:56 pm

Thanks for taking the time to say you enjoyed the episode! I'm glad you enjoyed learning more about Dietrich's war work, and the person behind the persona. (WWII was <i>the</i> war to my dad as well.)

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