Marlene Dietrich blurred all boundaries and checked all of the boxes. In Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) she appeared onstage in a top hat and tails; during a performance she asks a woman for the ...

Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to forget. At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper meets café entertainer Marlene Dietrich (making her American film debut). A ...

1932: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992) as Madeline or Shanghai Lily in the film 'Shanghai Express', directed by Josef von Sternberg. Costumes by Travis Banton. (Photo by Don English/John Kobal ...

Dietrich is something that never existed before and may never exist again,” the actor Maurice Chevalier said of her. “That’s a woman.” ...