An Evening with Marlene Dietrich these unlicensed selections without their permission. Previously unseen alternate takes of "Lola" and "You're the Cream in My Coffee" were included as bonus features on the Kino DVD release of "The Blue Angel". This material comes from the Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin, which holds all unissued material related to the television special as part of its collection. An Evening with Marlene Dietrich An Evening With Marlene Dietrich is a concert-format television special, starring Marlene Dietrich, first broadcast in 1973. Alexander H. Cohen, who had produced Dietrich's successful Broadway runs of her one-woman show in 1967 and 1968, suggested a television
Marlene Dietrich to market Dietrich as a German answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Swedish sensation, Greta Garbo. Sternberg welcomed her with gifts, including a green Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The car later appeared in their first US film "Morocco". Dietrich starred in six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount between 1930 and 1935. Sternberg worked effectively with Dietrich to create the image of a glamorous and mysterious femme fatale. He encouraged her to lose weight and coached her intensively as an actress. She willingly followed his sometimes imperious direction in a way that a number of other performers resisted. In "Morocco" (1930), Dietrich was