Marlene Dietrich well as George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" and "Misalliance". It was in musicals and revues such as "Broadway", "Es Liegt in der Luft", and "Zwei Krawatten", however, that she attracted the most attention. By the late 1920s, Dietrich was also playing sizable parts on screen, including roles in "Café Elektric" (1927), "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" (1928), and "The Ship of Lost Souls" (1929). In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola Lola, a cabaret singer who caused the downfall of a hitherto respectable schoolmaster (played by Emil Jannings), in the UFA production of "The Blue Angel" (1930),
1010 Marlene 1010 Marlene Marlene (minor planet designation: 1010 Marlene), provisional designation , is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 47 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 12 November 1923, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The asteroid was named after German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich. "Marlene" is not a member of any known asteroid family. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.2 AU once every 5.02 years (1,832 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of