Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene Marlene Dietrich was a GermanAmerican actress and singer.

Marie Magdalene Dietrich was born onDecember 1901 in Leberstrasse 65 on the Rote Insel in Schneberg, now a district of Berlin, Germany. She was the younger of two daughters of Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine and Louis Erich Otto Dietrich, who married in December 1898. Dietrichs mother was from a welltodo Berlin family who owned a jeweller and clockmaking firm, and her father was a police lieutenant who died in 1907. His best friend Eduard von Losch, an aristocratic first lieutenant in the Grenadiers, courted Wilhelmina and married her in 1916, but he died soon afterward from injuries sustained during the First World War. Eduard von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich girls, so Dietrichs surname was never von Losch, as has sometimes been claimed. Her family nicknamed her Lena and Lene . Around age 11, she contracted her two first names to form the name Marlene.

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