Marlene Dietrich filmography film appearance was as herself in the 1984 documentary, "Marlene". In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. </div style="font-size: 95%"> </div style="font-size: 95%"> </div style="font-size: 95%"> Complete list of television appearances (excluding news footage): Marlene Dietrich filmography Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress. In the 1920s, she acted on the Berlin stage and in silent films, making her film debut in 1922. She was propelled to international fame by director Josef von Sternberg, who cast her as Lola-Lola in "The Blue Angel" (1930). The film's commercial success brought her a
Marlene Dietrich filmography films directed by Sternberg, including "Dishonored" (1931), "Blonde Venus" (1932), and "Shanghai Express" (1932). Dietrich and Sternberg's last two film collaborations, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) and "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935)—the most styled of their collaborations—were their least successful at the box office. Her first sound film without Sternberg was 1933's "The Song of Songs", directed by Rouben Mamoulian, although she and Sternberg would later work together another two times. But without Sternberg, Dietrich—along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río and others—was labeled "box office poison" after the movie "Knight Without