The Blue Angel (1959 film) The Blue Angel (1959 film) The Blue Angel is a 1959 American drama film in CinemaScope directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film is a remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film "The Blue Angel" about cabaret singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the troubled, aged Professor Rath (Emil Jannings), who falls for her much to his own detriment. Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some
Marlene Dietrich her film debut playing a bit part in the film "The Little Napoleon" (1923). She met her future husband, Rudolf Sieber, on the set of "Tragedy of Love" in 1923. Dietrich and Sieber were married in a civil ceremony in Berlin on 17 May 1923. Her only child, daughter Maria Elisabeth Sieber, was born on 13 December 1924. Dietrich continued to work on stage and in film both in Berlin and Vienna throughout the 1920s. On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's "Pandora's Box", William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as