Marlene Dietrich shot at Babelsberg film studios. Josef von Sternberg directed the film and thereafter took credit for having "discovered" Dietrich. The film is also noteworthy for having introduced Dietrich's signature song "Falling in Love Again", which she recorded for Electrola and later made further recordings in the 1930s for Polydor and Decca Records. In 1930, on the strength of "The Blue Angel's" international success, and with encouragement and promotion from Josef von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, Dietrich moved to the United States under contract to Paramount Pictures, the US film distributor of "The Blue Angel". The studio sought
Marlene Dietrich filmography Armour" (1937) proved an expensive box office failure. In 1939, however, her stardom was revived when she played a cowboy saloon girl in the light-hearted western "Destry Rides Again" opposite James Stewart, singing "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have". While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in movies, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles, in successful films that included "A Foreign Affair" (1948), "Stage Fright" (1950), "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957), "Touch of Evil" (1958), and "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961). Her final