Friday quotes - Marlene Dietrich

"I dress for the image.

Not for myself, not for the public,

not for fashion, not for men"

Marlene Dietrich

(1901-1992)

Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich was born in Germany in 1901.  During the 1920's she acted in silent films in Berlin before her role in The Blue Angel brought her international fame and a Hollywood contract with Paramount.  Marketed as Germany's answer to Greta Garbo she became one of our most famous and iconic stars.

Dietrich married once but her love life was legendary.  She had numerous high profile romances with men and women including Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph P. Kenndy, JFK, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Leslie Howard, George Raft, Ernest Hemingway, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner, Edith Piaf, Greta Garbo, Claudette Colbert and Dolores Del Rio.  Quite a list!

After making over fifty films she toured the world as a show performer from the Fifties to the Seventies and in 1997 was named the ninth greatest star of all time.

Marlene Dietrich quotes

"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash.  It was always a big bother to me"

"The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
 is that of accomplices in crime"

With Gary Cooper

"Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. 
Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique,
which, after all, was more important than an active brain"

"Glamour is what I sell,
it's my stock in trade"

Photography by Edward Steichen

"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful,
I just know what to do with them"

"Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,
but you can't fool a flight of stairs"

With John Wayne

"The best time I ever had was with John Wayne"

With Ernest Hemingway

With Bob Hope

With Clark Gable

"Most women set out to try to change a man,

and when they have changed him they do not like him"

"If you forgive a man,
don't reheat his sins for breakfast"

"Grumbling is the death of love"

"How do you know love is gone? 
If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine,
and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone"

"In America, sex is an obsession,

in other parts of the world it's a fact"

At home, 1932

At home, 1932

At home, 1932

At home, 1932

At home, 1932

"A country without bordellos

is like a house without bathrooms"

"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic.
In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. 
In Argentina they throw themselves"

"In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive"

With Mae West

With Edith Piaf

"Sex is much better with a woman,
but then one can't live with a woman"

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter"

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,
beautifully expressed with much authority
 by someone recognised as wiser than oneself"

"Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently.

I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you"

With Shirley Temple

With The Beatles

"I'm worth more dead than alive.  Don't cry for me after I'm gone;
cry for me now"

"When you're dead, you're dead.

That's it"

"If there is a supreme being,

he's crazy!"

Marlene Dietrich
(1901-1992)


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Diana Vreeland

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Hedy Lamarr

Katharine Hepburn

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Joan Collins

I'm off for some meetings.  I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone's blogs later.

Have a fabulous evening xxx