Marlene Dietrich discography Marlene Dietrich discography Marlene Dietrich's recording career spanned sixty years, from 1928 until 1988. She introduced the songs "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" (from the film "The Blue Angel") and "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" (from "Destry Rides Again"). She first recorded her version of "Lili Marlene" in 1945. Her first long-playing album was "Marlene Dietrich Overseas", was a prestige success for Columbia Records in 1950. She also recorded several duets with Rosemary Clooney in the early 1950s: these tapped into a younger market and charted. During the 1960s, Dietrich recorded several albums
Marlene Dietrich time, she was a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller. Her autobiography "" ("Take Just My Life"), was published in 1979. In 1982, Dietrich agreed to participate in a documentary film about her life, "Marlene" (1984), but refused to be filmed. The film's director, Maximilian Schell, was allowed only to record her voice. He used his interviews with her as the basis for the film, set to a collage of film clips from her career. The final film won several European film prizes and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary in 1984. "Newsweek" named it "a unique film, perhaps the