Marlene Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from 1910 to 1980.

In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures.

She starred in many Hollywood films, including Morocco (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus (both 1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935), and Desire (1936).

She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses. Her public image included openly defying sexual norms, and she was known for her androgynous film roles and her bisexuality.

Throughout World War II she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

She spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.

Marlene Dietrich was an icon to fashion designers and screen stars. It was said that she knew more about fashion than any other actress. Her favorite designer was Dior.

In a 1960 interview, she said, "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. If I dressed for myself I wouldn't bother at all. Clothes bore me. I'd wear jeans. I adore jeans. I get them in a public store—men's, of course; I can't wear women's trousers. But I dress for the profession."

Marlene Dietrich, a life well lived, will always shine “In Heaven with the Stars.”